The Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga has set up special system to the tank of an electric eel, named Miguel Wattson, that enables his shocks to light up a nearby tree.

An electric eel named Miguel Wattson is shocking visitors at the Tennessee Aquarium by using its blips of electricity to power Christmas tree lights.

Electric eel at the aquarium The Electric Eel is the most powerful of all the electric fishes. It can discharge up to 650 volts: six times the power of a household current.

Miguel Wattson, an electric eel that resides in the Tennessee Aquarium’s Rivers of the World gallery, not only tweets from his account, which currently has more than 38,000 followers – he ...