Beginning around age seven, the female lays up to 10,000 eggs at a time, then coils around them and uses her body to shape the eggs into a neat sphere roughly the size of a grapefruit. When she’s settled, the male coils around her as an added layer of protection. They mate for life and the pair takes special care of its eggs as they develop.
Combined with their long, snaggly front teeth they look ferocious, but Wolf Eels tend to be aggressive only to other Wolf Eels. Males have thick jaws and a bulging forehead. This slender fish is gray as a rain cloud, with large heads and dark spots over their backs. Its name originates from the greek word Anarhichas, a fish in which the Wolf Eel resembles and the latin word ocellatus which means eye-like spots. They swim by making deep S-shapes with their bodies, like a snake moving across the ground. Wolf Eels occur in shallow water to as deep as 740 feet. They love to eat crabs, urchins & shellfish and are not “eels” in the true sense of the word. Adults wind those long bodies into caves & crevices, sticking just their heads out and waiting for something crunchy to swim by.
Wolf Eels look more or less normal-sized down to their neck and then their bodies just keep going, with thick, muscular waves of tail stretching nearly 8 feet behind them.
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