Brought home a bamboo shark

[sbrodacz]

I brought home my bamboo shark yesterday afternoon. He's currently in a 30 gallon. My 150 gallon will be ready this week which will be his new home. Once he out grows that he will be housed in a 600 gallon. I was going to bring home a yellow spotted stingray but held off for now. I haven't seen him yet, hopefully he will soon. You can see small pieces of scallop I put in there this morning.

 

[Zoodiver]

Looks good. Try smaller chunks of food (think mouth size).

 

[sbrodacz]

Looks good. Try smaller chunks of food (think mouth size).

I did put much smaller pieces in after I saw how big they were. I think he may be eating, but I haven't seen it yet.

 

[sbrodacz]

When I picked him up his belly was perfectly white. I just saw him swimming around a little and it's pretty red. I have pool filter sand in the 30 gallon tank. I figured it was good for rays, so why not a shark?

 

[Lepisosteus platyrhincus]

nice shark! iv always wanted one

 

[instantthc]

thank you for having outgrow options... if only everybody had this instict... GL

 

[sbrodacz]

Any idea on the red stomach? I took as much of the sand out as I could.

 

[sbrodacz]

Not sure if it was because I took the sand out or not, but he's been much more active. His stomach is white again. Still haven't seen him eat though. I actually put in some frozen blood worms and then thats when he started swimming around a lot more, not sure if that has more to do with him being more active or not.

 

[Jabba954]

Generally, the only sand to use with rays and benthic sharks is fine live sand - anything course will really irritate their bellies.

 

[sbrodacz]

It seems to have gotten better over night. Now if I could just get him to eat I'd relax a little.