LEMON SHARKS

[DanDanUK]

A guy i know has two Lemon Sharks in a 800gal aquaria what are your views on these creatures???

[Vitaliy]

Damn man! That is insane, that is a REAL shark right there... those things get over 10 feet! They are also known to attack people...
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/education/sharkkey/images/lemonshark2.jpg


:screwy:

[DanDanUK]

They are still only younge he works in a tropical fish store and they are ther for display purpose only they are about 1m long at the moment.

[Killduv]

They are beautiful sharks.

[Vitaliy]

They are still only younge he works in a tropical fish store and they are ther for display purpose only they are about 1m long at the moment.
2m as in meters? 6.5feet?

[rayman45]

the place in longisland that burnted down (bj's pets or some ****)had 5 of them with a school of losbters on the bottom

[Steve_89]

Thats pretty badass.

[DanDanUK]

Sorry mate i mean to say 1 METRE not 2 i'm talking bollocks there they are only younge .

[blacktip]

About 10 years ago I worked for a fish store with a 4000 gallon saltwater display tank with a lemon shark in it. He was about 18" when they got him and about 40" when they got rid of him. I used to have to feed him smelt and squid by hand. I loved that job. It was always a blast putting on a show for the customers while feeding him.

I would have preferred a couple of blacktips, but the lemon shark was cool as well. My dream is to someday house a tank large enough to keep a group of blacktips but I figure the only way that will happen is if I can retire and volunteer at Sea World...lol

[Gibbus]

The tank is too small for lemon sharks. I hope he is plannning on upgrading the tank. This sharks require a tank around 10,000 gallons min for just one. At 1m the tank is too small. At that size the tank should be around 4,000 gallons plus.

[piranha45]

do lemons really utilize all that space? at public aquariums I recall they are usually lying on the bottom doing nothing.

[rayman45]

na thats a NURSE shark
lemon sharks always swim well at least when i seen them

[piranha45]

they were totally lemon sharks, what I saw. They apparently don't need to move constantly to breathe, like other pelagic-looking species.

[rayman45]

then they were dead
the ones i saw, circled the top like, well sharks

[OddBaller]

I had a lemon shark in a 1600 gal pond......... several years back........ i "rescued" it from a guy who had it in a 300 gal tank......... anyways......... it was a real "monster" ......... it would grab other sharks a swim around with them in its mouth during feeding time......... even sharks bigger than itself............ It killed 4 smoothhounds and one 3ft leopard.......... before the the power went out and back siphoned the entire pond........... It really isnt a shark for the home aquaria........ i think i still have it in my freezer......... hmmm

[blacktip]

Yeah that's one problems with lemon sharks...they like to eat other sharks. That's why I'm partial to black tips

When I was in high school I would draw out plans for 80,000 gallon concrete tanks to build in my back yard. I wonder how much that would cost...lol

[Fish Finder]

the place in longisland that burnted down (bj's pets or some ****)had 5 of them with a school of losbters on the bottom
they are still there they just moved across the street they have 3 black tip reef sharks there now.

[perky25]

That's awesome sharks are my favorite fish