What do electric eel's eat?

Answer 1

Grown eels eat little fish and babies eat insects.

It also shocks a human and leaves a sting, or it shocks its prey.

Electric eels can eat fish that are good in size for them and they have been known to shock them. An electric eel has its charge for defense and to (like lots of eels), kill and eat smaller prey, like fishes. Electric Eels are predatory fish that will eat almost any animal that's small enough to fit into their mouth. In the wild this mainly includes fish, invertebrates and small mammals. You will probably have to feed them live fish at first but usually they can be trained to eat dead Freshwater Fish such as defrosted frozen smelt.

They can grow as large as 8 feet long and can weigh as much as 45 pounds, although the size attained in an aquarium will be smaller. They are not a particularly active fish so they will not need a tank as large as other species their size would require. If the tank is longer that the fish is and it has plenty of room to turn around, it should suffice but remember that even in captivity, this fish can grow to over 4 or 5 feet.

Answer 2

They eat smaller fish and bottom dwelling insects when they are to young to hunt for bigger prey.