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WOW. This thread has gotten crazy out of line. All anyone is saying is that the guy is an idiot and not given good reasons why this fish can't be kept in such a small tank aside from the obvious reason that he is too big or given suggestions as to where he can go for assistance as far as housing him in a larger aquarium.
The thing is that while it may just be a bit inhumane to house your average 3.5 ft fish in a 400 gal tank, it can be life-threatening for a shark. Sharks in the wild have to keep moving for their whole lives because they don't have swim bladders, so they can't hover, they just sink. Also, cartilagenous fishes like sharks also need to keep moving constantly because they don't have the pectoral fins like other fishes do to keep water moving past their gills. They have to move through the water to breathe!

Are there any zoos or aquariums that you can talk to about donating this? If, when you think about it, it is not realistic to have a much larger tank than this within a year or so, I would definitely be on the search for somewhere else to put the shark.


I really wish everyone here could treat other posters with the same kind of respect as they do their fish!
 
knightmare1968;1745562; said:
I thought the idea here was to help and inform people....??? Not to attack them. Sometimes i wonder why people come here at all. there is so much knowledge from most people here but instead of sharing it judgement gets passed... good thing the people that are judgeing never kept a fish in tank that was not ideal. I love my fish and do the best i can, but really some of you may need to relax just a little.
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judgment is being passed because he already posted this in 'sharks and ray', didn't liked the responses there, so he posted it here where people no affiliated with SW would answer..

and he could get the kudos he was looking for in posting this, INSTEAD of careing he has a potentially 13 foot shark in a small tank, heading our warnings in S&R, and still looking for attention..

he's a troll and should be treated as such
 
fishoverlivingspace;1745928; said:
WOW. This thread has gotten crazy out of line. All anyone is saying is that the guy is an idiot and not given good reasons why this fish can't be kept in such a small tank aside from the obvious reason that he is too big or given suggestions as to where he can go for assistance as far as housing him in a larger aquarium.
The thing is that while it may just be a bit inhumane to house your average 3.5 ft fish in a 400 gal tank, it can be life-threatening for a shark. Sharks in the wild have to keep moving for their whole lives because they don't have swim bladders, so they can't hover, they just sink. Also, cartilagenous fishes like sharks also need to keep moving constantly because they don't have the pectoral fins like other fishes do to keep water moving past their gills. They have to move through the water to breathe!

Are there any zoos or aquariums that you can talk to about donating this? If, when you think about it, it is not realistic to have a much larger tank than this within a year or so, I would definitely be on the search for somewhere else to put the shark.


I really wish everyone here could treat other posters with the same kind of respect as they do their fish!
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yes!

dude... no.

yes!
 
the fins don't move the water over thier gills gill covers and operculums do that rays OFTEN stop swimming and still breathe.. white tip reef sharks do as well as nurses basically any benthic fish... they still breather when not swimming...

the swim bladder part is right, but not the fins and swimming...
 
The way some of you guys attack others here is insane....you want to help out fish give good advice, don't jump on people first. All this will do is stop others who are making mistakes and need help from even posting, and then nothing will be done to help out these animals. Calm down take a pill may be your effort should be put toward helping this guy find the shark a new home (if he's not really building a new home). Buy the way the shark really looks to be in good health....
 
Can gill covers and operculums actually move new water across their gills? There is circulation in the ocean to put new water in front of the gill covers to bring it into their gills, but in an aquarium, circulation is not efficient enough to do that in most cases. In nature, if you see a nurse shark sitting on the bottom, it is almost always swaying back and forth with the ebb and flow of waves and currents, showing you that there is, indeed, water moving past its gills. Also, stingrays' operculums produce much more dramatic movement than those in sharks for water movement in order to sit in wait for prey. As an ambush predator, they are designed to sit in wait for prey, whereas most sharks are not.

The point of my post was to say what everyone else was saying in a more appropriate and not so critical manner: The aquarium is too small, and if you don't have the ability to house it in something bigger soon, then do what you can to get rid of it.
 
Hey man, I never said nurse sharks don't sit on the bottom. What I did say was that if you see one not moving, it is on the bottom, because they are incapable of hovering. I know that most reef dwelling and non open-water sharks have a tendency to cruise along the bottom and even sit on the bottom. Don't say someone doesn't know what they're talking about unless you know they don't know what they're talking about. Criticism like that is unnecessary and unjustified.
 
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