This video shows how a US aquarium powers its Christmas tree using an electric eel

This video shows how a US aquarium powers its Christmas tree using an electric eel | BISouthAfrica

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The Tennessee Aquarium connected the tank of its electric eel Miguel Wattson to a Christmas tree to allow the eel's shocks to set the strength of the tree's lights. It mostly produces dim blinking lights, but the aquarium said bigger flashes are produced when the eel is excited or eating.This year, Tennessee Aquarium's Christmas tree in Chattanooga is lit by the shocks of an electric eel.

On the eel's official Twitter account, operated by aquarium staff, Wattson boasted about his ability to light up the Christmas tree's lights. "Of course I pull it off. My phenomenal cosmic - well, bio-electric - power is basically limitless," Wattson

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