sorry if this has already been discussed
i remember watching a show a long time ago, it had a thing on it about some people who found a 6 foot long eel larvae, i think it was in the sargaso sea, or somthing like that. anyone remember\heard of this? if so got any info?
thanks in advance

Is this it?

i dont think so, i believe it was found before color pics early 1900s i think

I've heard about that. Dunno if it's true

How about this...

um, no thats not an eel larvae
they look like this, but the one im talking about was 6 foot long
thanks for trying thoug

Haha! Canadien I posted the same picture in a topic a little while back and we all decided it was a sardine (or mackerel or somthing ) bercause it is so badly cut and pasted to the picture. and look at the rope 'holding' it up its not even attached to the tail. XD

On the otherhand when I came to this topic I was expecting somthing big gross and squishy.... my dreams are crushed

Well I wonder how big the eel would have been full grown... It could have been a full grown Green Moray Eel and they mistook it for a larvae....

from what i could find about it they said it would get up to between 60-100 feet long. thats alot of sushi, mmmmmm....... unagi

Thats how long it said the green moray eel can get?!? O.o

That is like the size of a blue whale.... I can safly say maximum would be like 30 feet give or take a few XD

Didn't they make fun of Unagi on friends a while ago?

Well I just found that pic today,so I haven't had a chance to check it out yet.I just thought that maybe that was it because it's weird looking and not really in color. I could post some pics of Giant Moray Eels...

Haha no problem it is actually a very histarical picture once you get to look at it. Go check out my topic on it HERE!!! Lol some of the comments *shakes head* But anyways thats off topic

i live in hawaii, ive seen morays before, they look nothing like eel larvae,
on a side note, if you piss a moray off it WILL follow you onto land to chase you, they move kinda like a snake.
100 feet is how big the eel larvae would have gottin if allowed to live
clicky
thats where i got the 100 foot thing

Oh my god! Brain flash!

What if it was not a eel larvae at all but the fry of an oar fish?

Could have been classical olden day species misrepresentation...


Hmm I never kneww that a moray eel would follow you... weird..

Oh and you may want to watch your language XD

hmm, you know you just might be right, but what do oarfish fry look like? has anyone actually seen an oarfish fry?
sorry about the language :|

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For any who don't know what an oarfish looks like.



I couldn't find anything about fry on them but I am guessing they would pretty much exactly the same as an adult oarfish only not as long and transparent.

hmmm, your right, that would look almost exactly like an eel larvae. you might just be on to somthing my good man

Yey me and my smart brain.... *shifty eyes*

Hello all....This is my first post on this website. I am an independent researcher of all things strange and unexplained. The truth is....I just really have nothing better to do. Yes, the story is true. A giant eel larvae was caught in the net of a deep sea trawler. It was over six feet long, and this would make its adult size from 80 to 100 feet. Eels are common in Loch Ness, and I believe this to be the basis of many sightings of 'the monster'. The oceans of this world are over 90% unexplored, and we can look foreward to seeing some truly strange things come out of them. Thanks for your time, and I look forward to more posts. Goo'day ta ye, lads an' lassies.

. Can you provide some more info on this, like maybe a link?? That I would like to see!

i dont know about a link, but i have had it happen, and its well known here not to clean fish near the water, the blood and guts will attract eels.

an interesting side note, if you crush an eels head it will keep moving, but if you smash its tail it will die pretty quick.

That's freaky... I've seen those things and they're scary

Here is one of the largest deep sea Giant eels ever found,It's pretty cool. Also a pic of an oarfish fry.

thanks for the pic, how big are the oarfish fry?
sure looks freaky though, looks better then alot of cheesy b movie monsters ive seen

Normally about two feet long at that stage.I have a pic of a oarfish(Too big to post)But it is about 18 feet long,it was in the paper a while back also.

Normally about two feet long at that stage.Here is a pic of an oarfish that is about 18 feet long. Here is 2 pics of oarfish that just passed the fry stage.(About 2 feet long).

Sorry,I guess the pic of the giant oarfish doesn't work. You can find it on google under Oarfish or Giant Oarfish though.

So if i'm right you said oarfish in the fry stage are 2 feet.. Wow thats big for a fish that just hatched, but I wouldn't be surprised if an oarfish fry could reach 67 feet, some of tha adults are huge. I think there has been a recorded 40+ foot one.

EDIT: Sorry for got to put a 40+ foot adult!

One of the biggest ever recorded was in Scottland,and was 57 feet long-this was back in 1808.

i've read several times that the size of an eel larvae (for some species) is not an indication of the eventual size of the adult. In some cases the larvae is larger than the eventual adult. So extrapolating doesn't always give a good guess on size.