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    Default Recent trip to Samana -- Found an eel!

    Any idea what this is? Taken with the Sealife DC1400...no externals.
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    snake eel, possible a Napolean snake eel.
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    Had a look on Google images and from the looks of it, it's either a spike tail eel, or the snake eel that you mentioned. They both seem very similar! Unfortunately, that's the only picture I've got of it, but at least the choices of eel have been narrowed down, and that's a start

    Thanks!

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