Blacknose sharks?
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You might be J. This shark keeping thing is a sickness.lol But for real maybe a fine tooth would be cool they are a little more heavy bodied. I will say the bonnet pups are kind of skinny and not too impressive. I mean if you budget is good how about a sandbar or if your really up for a challenge you could try a black tip. I will have to say of all the sharks that I have had the black tip does it for me. I found that shark totally fascinating. I could not take my eyes off that shark. I rate the black tip shark over both the bull and the lemon that I have worked with. The lemon would also be a good chocie for someone like you self J.
Jabba954;4608269; said:
yeah thats a tough one. If you end up going with a lemon I think it will end up dictating the rest of your tankmates! I know you like big rays and stuff but the lemon will eat them right up. The sandbar would be much more friendly to its tankmates.
The black nose thing is a bummer cause I love the look of them. The ones at the NJ aquarium look so much like the silky its nuts. You could always go with a scalloped!! Now thats a shark
As far as my guys go, the lemon is doing awesome and growing at an alarming rate. As for the black tips, the BTR is doing great also.(those guys are a pice of cake) The sad news is that I lost the C. limbatus black tip.
She was doing perfect for about 3 weeks. Witch was so awesome cause she had some pretty bad open wounds from shipping. She actually lost her right eye But she really came back well the eye healed along with all the other wounds. On about week 4 she I started to notice these pale finger print spots on her and she started to lose her denticals. I really wasn't sure what it was nor was any one I asked. Trust me I asked some pretty knowledgeable people.
I ended up finding some info on a parasite called Dermophthirius penneri witch is sometimes found on black tip sharks caught in the northern gulf of mexico. Witch is where she was caught. All the symptoms my shark had were consistent with those of D.penneri.
From what I have read D.penneri is a known vector for bacteria. Witch is what she died from. I really don't have any way to prove it was D.penneri but it sure seems to be logical guess. In the end she made it about six weeks. witch was really sad cause she settled in so nice and was eating like a pig.
I know that Mattiej kept a small school of Atlantic Sharpnose for about 4 years in his 16K shark lagoon.
The trick to keeping sharpnose successfully is they need to be well acclimated and kept in small schools (3-6 sharks). It's best to start with juveniles - much like it is with Bonnetheads, Blacktip Reefs or most other requiems.
And Sharpnose wouldn't do well being kept with Lemons, Atlantic Blacktips or any other similar large predatory shark. They would be highly nervous around such large predators. When keeping Sharpnose - it's best to keep them with similar sized shark species - such as Bonnetheads.
Deano1956;4609610; said:So you're well on the way with the big one?
I adjusted plans once the original design ran into complications with the county. A few months ago I bought a new house, on 120 acres (not exactly common in the middle of the Bay Area), and decided to remodel the existing house - the new tank will actually be built onto the side of the house, with the tank visible from the living room and bedroom.
In the interim, I picked up a big one piece (~11K gallons) fibreglass tank from aquaculturetanks.com, in the event that I need a temporary tank between when the sharks are too big for the current 2000 gallon, and when the BIG tank is finished. It's sitting in storage until I toss up a temporary metal building (basically the same as Turbo's setup).
I know little (actually nothing) about the bay area but 120 acres there MUST be rare, a cool 11K interim tank sounds funny to us guys with 1000 gallon setups. That sounds like some time consuming setup in and of itself. Good luck. What is the weather like out there Dec-Jan?
