Sharks

[goldmullet]

Hey.

So i am setting up a new 240 gallon fish only. I was wondering if there are any cool sharks out there besides the Black Tip cause my tank is too small.

But sharks that are cool, that swim and are not just bottom dwellers and don;t look like catfish.

Do you guys know of any?

 

[namxas]

Actually, a 240 is too small for any shark species IMHO. However, to answer your question, pelagic sharks require setups in the 1000's of gallons.

 

[goldmullet]

What about a smooth hound shark?

 

[Dragon moray ki]

I believe you could put a cat shark or a coral cat shark coral cats only get 2 feet 4 inche according to la and cat get 3 feet 6 inches both need 180 according to La

 

[jimmy frag]

smooth hound shark are cool

 

[alprazo]

Smooth hounds grow Very fast. If you went with the temperate gray smooth hound you are looking at at least 3 ft for a male and 4 for a female. For the more tolerant of temperature dusky smooth hound, they easily get 4 feet. I would rec a 12 ft swimming pool as your best bet to house these for any length of time. They cost a little over $1000 and people are putting acrylic windows in them. The evaporation into the air on something like that is probably close to 6 lbs per hour so you can run into problems putting one in your basement. In a 240 you have several options of benthic/ cryptic sharks . I would say halstromi epaulettes, and some of the smaller deep water cats, like the chain cat in addition to the tropical coral cat mentioned above. As for an ORV in a 240. Absolutely not. They will succumb to fatigue in several days.

 

[nonstopfishies]

There are no open water sharks you can do in anything close to a 240. Very few benthic sharks would work long term in a 240 even. I had a gray bamboo(which stays pretty small) in a 210 and it definitely got too small for it and I got rid of it. I would say only 1 shark, no more in a 240.

 

[Maculatus]

Bamboo cat?

 

[TitanTV]

Skip the Shark and get a freshwater Dorado. It will give you the shark look and feel (actually looks like a trout to be honest). But they act more like a shark than any of the sharks most of us can keep in a home aquarium.

 

[Puffer29]

240 is pushing it with any shark. I have a 3 and a half foot bamboo cat shark in a 300 gallon and its beginning to look crammed. Like others have noted they get big very very fast.

 

[alprazo]

There are small carpets such as the gray bamboo. Good luck finding one. They are quite rare in the trade and likely brought in mislabeled as a brown banded. Great find if you had one.

The Eppies, walk unlike the bamboo sharks. Even though there may get a little larger, they can maneuver better in a cramped area, such as a tide pool or tank. H. Halstromi is probably the smallest you will find and I agree, only one in a 240.

 

[alprazo]

Maculates, you are correct. There is the bamboo carpet and the cat, but not a bamboo cat. At least not one that I can think of right now. --- if that is what you mean by your post

 

[NoobtoSalt]

I just picked up a grey bamboo shark myself. They are hard to come by and mine will be going into my 240.

 

[alprazo]

Great pick up. Where did it come from? They are quite uncommon in the trade.
LFS or online?

 

[NoobtoSalt]

Great pick up. Where did it come from? They are quite uncommon in the trade.
LFS or online?

Lfs. I was told it was a grey bamboo. Then I thought it wasn't.

Not trying to hijack the thread but here's a picture of it still at the lfs till my tank is done being setup for it.

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[CuttleKid]

Sorry To tell you this but i am pretty positive that that is a banded bambooshark. they become all grey when they reach adulthood

 

[NoobtoSalt]

Sorry To tell you this but i am pretty positive that that is a banded bambooshark. they become all grey when they reach adulthood

Thats what I thought as well. Either way its mine now. If it doesn't start changing colors in the next six months I have a lfs that will take it off my hands. Someone else on here said it was a grey bamboo as well. Guess we will know more sometime next year

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