Sorry can't help with your question but what sort of chiclids have you got
wont they eat your eel?

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~shady angel~

Rubber eels (http://www.caecilian.org/) are different than your normal fire
or spiney eels. I've kept them with all sorts of cichlids over the years
(currently a 90 gallon malawi tank full of demasoni, mel. maingana, hap
ahli, greberi and exotic plecos). I've never once seen a fish attack a
rubber eel.

Thx for the responses, folks. I've raised the temperature of my 35G and
we'll see what happens.

Dave