premature birth HELP!

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Candiru
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About 4 days ago I was fishing & cought a pregnent spurdog(I found this out when I gutted it).I think they had about 6 months to a year before birth. There are 8 pups & there yolk sack is almost as big as there body(there about 6" & in a 55 gal) the water is areated heavily but not filtered(im renewing the water with fresh seawater as much as possible) What I want to know is what I have to do to keep them alive.:shark:
Thanks!
 
This morning I found the water all cloudy & there was a lot of bubbles on top. I took a closer look & they were all dead:cry:. It looked like the yolk sacs popped. Anyone know how I could have prevented this? Anyone?
 
I would say the best way to prevent this situation from happening again should you be fishing and catch a shark is to release it... alive. Especially if you catch a mature female. Not sure what fish you have kept alive with out filtration. Maybe a siamese fighting fish.. for a while. WOW
 
I should have realized it was pregnant stupid me. What I ment about preventing this was keeping them alive(as far as not keeping any mature female sharks we kinda needed food:drool:).I basically had a flow through system.Why do you think the yolk sacs popped?
 
if they were that young the yolk sacs were probably very fragile, they might have bumped into each other or the sides of the tank
dont flame the poor guy, he made a stupid mistake and is clearly very sorry for it
 
ceeej31;1994131; said:
if they were that young the yolk sacs were probably very fragile, they might have bumped into each other or the sides of the tank
dont flame the poor guy, he made a stupid mistake and is clearly very sorry for it
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thanks that answered my question & ya I wish we hadnt kept her/them
 
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