Eels feed on fish, worms, insects, and snails.
They spend between five to 20 years just eating and growing. The eels' spawning waters are in the Sargasso sea, southeast of Bermuda. How they get there, and their courtship behavior remains a mystery. Studies show that when a female reaches her breeding site, all her bodily resources focus on egg production. She's reduced to a bag of skin, bones, and eggs.