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Tank Size (US GAL): 90
Experience: 3 Months
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Being your showing that you only have this 90 gal tank, I feel that I should offer you some warning in over stocking with larger growing marine species. But before that, your male dragon appears to be in fine health, and I hope that your feeding him a variety of fresh strips of fish, as well as octopus, squid and shrimp. Do your eel a great favor and stay away from farm raised sea foods
And use a feeding stick of some type.
Also, a lionfish with such eels as these, its not advisable to have, more docile eels like a SFE, zebra or a much safer species mix, then with a dragon moray. And a flounder? This fish for many in this species, grows rather large, and your tank would be needing a wide open area for it, so your tank isn't as well, ideal for this species. The only two fish that you have right now, in my professional opinion, are the eel and huma, but as well, there be no warning to if or when your male dragon might attempt to take a bite out of your trigger.
So being that your keeping the eel with many fish, in a closed and close system. You need to try feeding your eel twice a week, and feed until he refuses further foods. This method im afraid will cause your male dragon to gain much body fat in just the next year or two. It be the only method you can manage to try and keep the eel from ever feeling its hungry. For eels, that no matter how large the other tank mates be, it could still manage to try and take a bite out of it when its feeling hungry.
I myself had kept a pair of dragon eels for more then 14 years, and sold them to some private zoo people. I kept them with only damsels, no other main tank mates, and feed them once a week, and if they refused to feed that week, they waited to the next schedule feeding, a week later.
I`ve delt with a great number of eel species through my life time, you yourself will soon enough learn in what be best to do, as you move a long in the maintenance and care taken for your eel. Please do take note here, you must maintain a Ph above 8.0, do not drop below, this will have a great affect on its diet, as well, maintain as low a nitrate level that you can, 20 or below is fine, but it would do a good deal better at untraceable levels. And you already must know to maintain your ammonia and nitrites at zero. It also must have a great deal of
LR, it must be allowed to hide itself, in total darkness, you want to keep your eel from any source of possible stress.
Sorry for any misspellings, it couldn`t be helped
Good Luck
Buddy