- SEA LIFE Oberhausen, Swarm Ring
![Ohrfleck Röhrenaal](/oberhausen/media/hjaophnm/röhrenaal-1.jpg?center=0.64480646059593427,0.70175438596491224&mode=crop&format=webp&quality=80&width=700&height=700)
Ohrfleck Röhrenaal
About the gardens eel
- Gardens eels don't like to live alone; they live in colonies that can include a few to thousands of animals.
- The gardens eel digs a tube into the sandy ground with its tail. This is where it has its name from. At the tail-end there is a gland, whose secretion helps to strengthen the tube-walls so that no sand trickles from above. With the abdomen, the eel remains constantly in the tube and moves only with the front-body in order to eat.
- If a predator or another larger animal passes by, the entire colony of eels sinks very slowly into the ground.