Shark Eggs
 

So we stopped by Big Als last night and they have a bunch of shark eggs in a tank. These things are so neat. They look like ginormous pumpkin seeds, and you can see the baby sharks moving around inside the eggs. They wanted around $80 per egg I believe. I do not have the set up but it would be really, really cool to have a creature from egg through their entire life cycle.

You gotta check them out!

Yes shark eggs are soooo cool!

My fiance and I have already decided that as soon as we get a house, we are building a pond for some Bamboos. Actually she has decided this...which is cool. I guess she has always wanted to keep sharks and rays. I am not so sure we would ever try rays but sharks for sure.

And hopefully from eggs, cause as you said, they are awesome to watch!

I think these were called African Bamboo Sharks. Could that possibly be right? Was pretty tired last night and the memory is not working so great today!

I know Golds Aquariums said they were building a shark/stingray tank as they have been able to figure out how to keep them alive (it is the large tank along the floor). I always liked how some of the rays looked, so hopefully they are able to keep them alive as I may want to try keeping some one day when i build a bigger tank.

I agree the shark eggs are very cool, but most are doomed. They shouldn't be $80, they should be more like $20. They aren't normally very expensive, which inclines a lot of people to try hatching one with little intention of providing a suitable home for it. Most do hatch, and it is pretty cool to see the little baby sharks, but most of them grow very large.

Well they were seventy-something so I just rounded it up to eighty. I wanted one but doubted it would do very well in a 28 gallon. If most of them hatch and you can get them eating - why are they doomed? It is not like they would know what the ocean is. Or do you mean that they get so large none of us should be keeping them? Perhaps we should red list them...

golds has room for another tank? man that place is small, i cant imagine where they'd put it.

i guess ill just have to find out for myself:biggrin:

I saw that tank the other day. They had this really cool type of shark that attaches to other sharks to clean them... I don't always agree with the things that they bring in, but Dennis really has the knowledge to keep them. I just hope the people that buy them have that same knowledge to keep them as well. Dennis has always been very careful in his instructions on how to care for things and has always been very supportive and informative for anything I have ever needed to know.

No its all relative. SOME species can reach almost 4' but most stay under 3'. So yes very big but not unreasonable. They are also not open water swimmers. They are bottom dwellers which are much better suited to captivity and don't need as large a tank as open water sharks would. Like comparing Tangs to Groupers. Sure groupers get larger but they really don't need as much space as a tang relatively speaking.

And no they don't belong on a "red list" because for one, these are captive bred and two, they are quite easy to keep. I would say there should be caution taken with the eggs as hatching them is easy but getting them to eat can be tricky. But once eating, these fish are easy enough to keep.

If you start to add every fish that is a possible finicky eater to a red list then half the ocean will end up on there ;)

I have one, it looks like a chewed up mango seed, hehe, but its very interesting what is inside, you can actually see the embryo moving inside if you put it near the light. I will post a lil video once that I learn how to post video. here is a pic of it:
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...5032009611.jpg

the main problem with purchasing a shark egg rather than an actual shark is that it is pretty hard to get them to eat. Once established they are great, but when they hatch they are usually already 6-8 even 10 inches long in some cases and uber picky.

But I agree, ultra neat idea, too bad it very rarely works out LOL

Ok...what are you going to do with that thing once it hatches??? LOL.

palm, meet forehead.

Please tell me this is not going in your 90 gallon.

EDIT: Please don't take this as me being crabby. In my experience with sharks, even banded cats, you'll need alot more room for a pup than a 90 gallon can provide, especially if you've got lots of rockwork.

If you're planning an upgrade relatively soon I'd be glad to help you. Again, not meant to be rude, Sharks are RAAAAAAAAAD, but require alot more thought/care than one might expect.

Justin:
I might sell it to you hehe, so you better start offering me lol..

Rbacchiega:
I thought about it but no i cant. I might just keep it in my 29 gallon lol...

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here a clip that I just took:
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...5032009018.jpg
here is a link of what it will looks like later:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_PbYOvatBU

Sharks require very large tanks (100s of gallons usually) to swim around in when they approach 2' or 3'. They may be cool as babies, but that baby will eat a lot & you will need excellent filtration/skimming to keep up with their huge bioload. Just for myself, I wouldn't have a shark, even the smallest one, in less than 300g to handle their adult size. My friend got one in, not his decision but another person ordered & couldn't keep it, and it looks out of place even in his lightly stocked 300g.

Anthony

+1

I had three pups in an 8x3x3 tank and they still looked out of place.

oh, and the more you do what you're doing in the video, the less likely the pup is to survive. good luck though

ya I wouldnt keep myself neither I am just going give away or obo I just want to watch him hatch.

Noooooo! Don't shake the baby!!!




http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x...keABabyTag.jpg

:rolleyes:

Uhh, don't you think that's just a wee bit short sighted? You should start looking for a new home for the baby ASAP.

And please stop shaking the egg.

Many are actually still wild caught.