Heya there everyone, not been on monsterfishkeepers long, just been absorbing a lot of the information here, but some of it got me thinking. Ill admit from the start, ive had some experience keeping fish but in no way consider myself even approaching on the expert level. Ive also so far only kept freshwater, and have no experience of keeping salt water at all, so i know im miles off keeping a shark.... which brings me to the ultimate question...
I have read a lot of posts about sharks being only for the most experienced keepers out there. I can respect and understand that, but HOW do you get experience keeping something that you need experience to keep? i figure this is the place to ask? Research research research is the key, im aware of that, but there has to be things beyond that. I wouldn't feel comfortable with just research followed by owning a shark, id obviously need actual practical knoledge.
What route have people taken to gather experience keeping sharks. If it may be 10 years before i have the experience to keep one, i would prefur to get on the right track sooner rather than later, i would hate to keep fish for 10 years and only then start looking for how to gain experience in sharks... So what would people advise to start learning about sharks, what is the medium step, and what is the final step before "taking the plunge"!
I would not want to ever give a fish away, which is part of the probelm i see. I want to keep something that can help prepare me, a trainee fish for experience purposes, but with some fish living up to 20 years or more, i could die before i ever got a chance to actually keep a shark myself at that rate!
Finally (sorry for the long post) could any vetrans give a run down of their background and how they came to be shark keepers now? just a run down of each phase it took to get to the next step, and how many steps were involved? Im sure there are many people out there who have wanted to keep sharks at some point, and hopefully this will give people a good idea what to do to get on track!
I have read a lot of posts about sharks being only for the most experienced keepers out there. I can respect and understand that, but HOW do you get experience keeping something that you need experience to keep? i figure this is the place to ask? Research research research is the key, im aware of that, but there has to be things beyond that. I wouldn't feel comfortable with just research followed by owning a shark, id obviously need actual practical knoledge.
What route have people taken to gather experience keeping sharks. If it may be 10 years before i have the experience to keep one, i would prefur to get on the right track sooner rather than later, i would hate to keep fish for 10 years and only then start looking for how to gain experience in sharks... So what would people advise to start learning about sharks, what is the medium step, and what is the final step before "taking the plunge"!
I would not want to ever give a fish away, which is part of the probelm i see. I want to keep something that can help prepare me, a trainee fish for experience purposes, but with some fish living up to 20 years or more, i could die before i ever got a chance to actually keep a shark myself at that rate!
Finally (sorry for the long post) could any vetrans give a run down of their background and how they came to be shark keepers now? just a run down of each phase it took to get to the next step, and how many steps were involved? Im sure there are many people out there who have wanted to keep sharks at some point, and hopefully this will give people a good idea what to do to get on track!
