Smallest tank for a Nurse Shark?
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saltfisher
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Here is a Nurse. This one eats like a damn pig. I dont think he is ever full. He is also in a 180 and does just fine.
Ian, that's too bad about your shark. I have a book that says they are hard to keep, but my LFS says they are like catfish and can live through almost anything.
Ian, that's too bad about your shark. I have a book that says they are hard to keep, but my LFS says they are like catfish and can live through almost anything.
saltfisher
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Here is my Banded. I had him in a 90G for a long time and he was doing good. I just moved him to a 125. This breed of shark does not move very much, except at night. Mine moves quite a bit all the time though and is a hog, too.
armageddon
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That was a nice huma huma. Too bad its dead.
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irenicus
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The humu's dead???
You have some nice fish triggeraa, but you know that the nurse will outgrow that right. I'm not a zealot for fish and tank sizes but some things are certainties.
Others?
You have some nice fish triggeraa, but you know that the nurse will outgrow that right. I'm not a zealot for fish and tank sizes but some things are certainties.
Others?
mdgegs
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I had a two and a half foot nurse shark in a 150 gal tank. By the time I got rid of it, the shark was almost 4'. Tank was trashed and leaking by the time he was gone. Only good thing is the neighborhood kids liked to watch him eat, so I would have them run to the local bait shop and buy minnows for it.
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irenicus
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Please don't say that. Your gonna get flamed quick about feed fw fish to salts
jim27
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Originally posted by mdgegs
I had a two and a half foot nurse shark in a 150 gal tank. By the time I got rid of it, the shark was almost 4'. Tank was trashed and leaking by the time he was gone. Only good thing is the neighborhood kids liked to watch him eat, so I would have them run to the local bait shop and buy minnows for it.
You had a 4ft shark in a 150 gallon and you feed it freshwater fish. Wow dude. At least you got rid of it.
triggeraa
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Irenicus, you are right about the nurse outgrowing the tank. I rescued the shark after the previous owner couldn't house him any longer. I also have a 1000 gallon tank that houses my big freshwater fish. I could always convert it to salt. My brother also has a 3000 gallon shark pool that house horn and leopard sharks.The trigger in the pic I posted was eaten by the blue grouper. Picture
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irenicus
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Yeah.... I remember that pic. Amazing... but sad.
ian_in_tx
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btw, my nurse shark didn't die because it was cramped in the 200 gallon tank.
The guy I bought the tank from had cancelled his LFS maintenance agreement some 7 months prior to selling. In this time, the tank had not been cleaned or touched by the owner. The salinity was 1.016, pH = 7.5, nitrates were over 2500 mg/l, and the the tank had crushed coral instead of sand (which is ESSENTIAL for good shark husbandry).
While my shark was dying, I was making calls to a PhD shark specialist, who said that people who keep nurse sharks in home aquariums make him sick. They are just not meant to be kept in such small tanks, it's cruel. Please don't do it, you just encourage the trade even more.
The guy I bought the tank from had cancelled his LFS maintenance agreement some 7 months prior to selling. In this time, the tank had not been cleaned or touched by the owner. The salinity was 1.016, pH = 7.5, nitrates were over 2500 mg/l, and the the tank had crushed coral instead of sand (which is ESSENTIAL for good shark husbandry).
While my shark was dying, I was making calls to a PhD shark specialist, who said that people who keep nurse sharks in home aquariums make him sick. They are just not meant to be kept in such small tanks, it's cruel. Please don't do it, you just encourage the trade even more.