Nurse Shark at LFS

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Jack Dempsey
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just thought i'd show a pic of a new Nurse Shark at one of my LFS. He's in a 300 gallon right now with one other nurse and a whole bunch of HUGE tank mates, such as a 4' ramora, 3 giant morays, among others. he looks kinda depressed to me lol. i hope he finds a good home. :popcorn::popcorn::popcorn:

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Nurse sharks are cool. We had one at the FS I used to work at in the 70's in a 240. You could tap on the glass and he would come up to the top and you could hand feed him! Just had to watch the fingers though!
 
it's a shame lfs carry them as often as they do. I know of very few people who can actually house one properly
 
Yeah - sounds like a very overstocked tank.

And even though Nurses are pretty cool sharks, and tend to be a very hardy species - this doesn't mean they are well suited for private Aquarists. In fact when you consider their adult size of 8-10 ft, means that they aren't suited for the vast majority of private Shark Aquarists.
 
These Nurse Sharks fate is not looking good at all and I don't think there is anything cool about that.
 
I just went to the Long Beach Aquarium and Shark Lagoon is pretty cool.
 
Got to agree with Chris(Crumbs) here. Nothing Cool about it. From the looks of the photos - that Nurse shark is over 24" long. So keeping in a 300 gallon tank with large Morays, and another 4' fish, as well as another Nurse shark - is a horrible idea. In fact it's down right cruel.

At 2' long - the Nurse sharks should have a tank/pond that is at least 50 sq.ft. and 750 gallons to live in for just another year - and that's the bare minimum. They would really be better off with a pond that has a footprint of more than 150 sq.ft and a volume of over 3,000 gallons so they wouldn't to upgrade to a larger tank for another 3-4 years. But either way they will need a tank/pond with a footprint of over 700 sq,ft and a volume of more than 21,000 gallons to live in for their entire life.
 
It amazes me that it is illegal in this country to own an Asian Arowana, which was farmed raised to be an aquarium fish, yet it is perfectly ok to sell these and other sharks that virtually no one has a proper facility for. I think you should be required to have a certified facility of some sort in order to purchase animals like this.
 
I think they are just saying the fish is cool..... Not the fate of the fish!!!!! imo
 
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