黄鳝属底栖鱼类,适应性强,耐低氧,多栖息于稻田、池塘、沟渠、湖泊的底层泥土中,昼伏夜出,夜间活动觅食。自然水域中主要摄食鲜活水陆生昆虫及幼虫,或捕食蝌蚪、幼蛙、小鱼、小虾及贝类。人工饲养可投喂人工配合饲料或颗粒饲料。黄鳝贪食,在夏季活动频繁时,日食量可占体重的15%左右,且较耐饥饿,当饵料缺乏时,黄鳝会同类残食。近年来,不少地方采用新型人工制作网箱养 Eel is a benthic fish, adaptable, resistant to hypoxia, and more habitat in the paddy fields, ponds, ditches, lakes, the underlying soil, nocturnal, night activities foraging. Natural water mainly inhabits live freshwater terrestrial insects and larvae, or prey on tadpoles, frogs, small fish, shrimp and shellfish. Artificial feeding can be fed artificial feed or pellet feed. Eel bulimia, frequent activities in the summer, the solar eclipse can account for about 15% of body weight, and more resistant to hunger, when the lack of food, eel will be the same kind of residual food. In recent years, many places using new artificial cage culture