hatching a shark egg

[ams153]

i am getting a shark egg and ive never had a shark so im really wanting to do it right the first time.. so i want to know how easy it is to hatch shark from an egg.. and do i need power heads to circulate the water do they help in hatching the shark give me all the info you can on anything anyone thinks i should know thanx a ton
Andrew Sanchez

 

[ams153]

really anything at all?

 

[smoney]

Well, I am assuming that you probably have a tank that is too small for one, probably around 50-70 gallons. What you need first of all is a tank of 180 gallons, if you dont I would strongly recommend you return it.
....BUt on the off chance that your stubborn, I want to keep him alive. You need some really good filtration, a nice current. I wouldnt recommend to much liverock because when it first hatches in will squeeze into the liverock and get stuck. You can useone of those clips that has a

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so you can stick it to the glass and clip the egg. They are realatively easy to take care of. I had one for a while, It was a bamboo, and when it was small it ate the brime shrimp i put in the tank. It requires sand as the substrate in the aquarium, as the abdomen is easily scratched by a coarser substrate, thus causing infection. It should never be exposed to copper-based medications.
Any more Questions??? :joy:

 

[drea]

that sounds like fun... did u give up on sharks? they look like they start to get boring or am i wrong?

 

[smoney]

....Sort of. I was actually one of those really stubborn people who was like ooh I can keep a shark in a 50 gallon, I soon found out that was way too small.
I loved my shark and all sharks, the only problem was that I needed a bigger tank and I dont have the space or money for them. I wish I had like a 1000 gallon tank to keep one.
You would think they get boring, but I really didnt loose interests in them. I like to keep things that people enjoy looking at and when everyone came over, they were like "wow, you got a shark" and then they ask all the questions(mostly the kids) "do they bite?"
They are really neat, I wish I had the money for them! :joy:

 

[ams153]

ok heres the deal so far i just last week bought a 250 gallon tank and i beganbuilding a stand yesterday and actually finished it today it took around 16 hours total (there went my weekend) and i moved it into my room and now i have the tan sitting on top of it tomorow i will be moving about 20 pounds live rock and around 100 pounds live sand into the tank also a crab and shrimp i do not as of now own the shark egg i first plan to wait about a month or so after the tank is set up so it can cycle i do not yet own a filter i plan to get one tomorow or the next day i will also get a protein skimmer before i get the shark but im gonna wait a month or so cuz my money is running short i will be getting the powerheads also in about 2 weeks and eventually i want to set up a 20 g tank below my tank to house my crab and shrimp that i bought when i planned on a reef and that will be a very small refugium but thats a bit down the road... so is there anything else i will need and is that much liverock enough for now thanks for the help
Andrew Sanchez

 

[smoney]

I would put probably about 100lbs of liverock in that tank, but I wouldnt build up the rock too high, because it can topple over and kill the shark. Lets see what other people think...

 

[ams153]

cool yea thats all the LR i had so ill just add a bit everyweek while its cylcing after all these new costs i cant afford to much at once lol but ill get at least 100 pounds before i buy the shark i want to do it right but as far as clipping the egg to the glass how im so confused wouldnt tht hurt an egg.. and are the soft enough to clip?

 

[smoney]

You can put it on a clip, which is like a clothspin thingy, and you just put it on the end of the egg, YOu will see were the shark is in the egg, so Im sure you wont clip him. The egg is not to soft. Another thing you can do it to partly bury half of it in the sand, or just lay it on the sand, the lfs will tell you how to do it.

 

[ams153]

ok thanx for the help lol now im worried about how to place the egg in the tank i just want the thing to hatch and i want to get it to eat which i hear is pretty hard im a little worried about clipping it so i think ill burry it a bit in the sand i like that idea im to worried about the clipping thing breaking the egg

 

[smoney]

Yeah I put my shark egg laying on the sand in a low current area, so that it wouldnt blow around the tank. At my lfs, they have a mini lagoon and they partly bury the egg in the sand. I wouldnt worry about feeding him, its relatively easy, you just try to find new and new foods, until you find the one he likes. I would feed him mysis shrimp at first. then move up to the shark formula food, its a frozen cube that you can cut up and give to your shark, you lfs should have shark formula.

 

[drea]

so if you have a shark, you can make an aggressive tank with triggers and stuff? or what are the limitations?

 

[smoney]

If you have a shark it is mostly likely going to be an aggressive tank with sharks, eels, and rays. Now, I have seen triggers with sharks and I have also seen tangs with sharks, but other people have said that you can't put sharks with triggers.
Check out this Thread:
https://www.saltwaterfish.com/vb/showthread.php?t=183118

 

[ams153]

Originally Posted by SMoney
Yeah I put my shark egg laying on the sand in a low current area, so that it wouldnt blow around the tank. At my lfs, they have a mini lagoon and they partly bury the egg in the sand. I wouldnt worry about feeding him, its relatively easy, you just try to find new and new foods, until you find the one he likes. I would feed him mysis shrimp at first. then move up to the shark formula food, its a frozen cube that you can cut up and give to your shark, you lfs should have shark formula.

awsome i can get one hatched and feeding then im not worried about it anymore thanx a ton for the help ill have more questions when i get it in a couple months im sure im getting everything setup right now though
Sanchez

 

[smoney]

Saweet Deal! those guys are so much to have. You should get like 2 of those eggs in that 240 gallon, that would be so sweet!

 

[ams153]

i do plan to do two but i want to get the experience with one first lol i want to make sure its what i want