shark egg identification please

[luv4scjjt]

My hubby brought this home today and it was labeled "bamboo cat shark egg" That's what it was sold to the pet store as. I don't always think the distributors know what their looking at so I did some photo recon. It don't seem big enough or wide enough for a bamboo. Seems more like a swell shark but I am not an egg expert. This is my first egg. (not my first shark) Have been keeping sharks for a long time just first egg. Can anyone tell me what this baby is?

 

[luv4scjjt]

Heres another pic with candling

 

[alprazo]

looks like a coral cat or some other cat shark to me.

 

[Riley S]

Agreed. It's a coral cat.

 

[luv4scjjt]

Thanks guys. Cool. I love the cats. How long of a hatch day are we talking with these guys.

 

[Zoodiver]

Yep, coral catshark. Way too small and wrong shape to be a bamboo. You're probably a couple of weeks out with the embryo already that size. Looks good.

 

[luv4scjjt]

Thanks guys much appreciated. I can deffinatly see stripes on him already. With coral cats do they start out with stripes? Mine was well out of the egg when I got her so don't know if she she had strips before the dark pattern with the white spots.

 

[Riley S]

Thanks guys much appreciated. I can deffinatly see stripes on him already. With coral cats do they start out with stripes? Mine was well out of the egg when I got her so don't know if she she had strips before the dark pattern with the white spots.

They develop the stripes as they develop inside the egg. They start out a pinkish color (basically colorless), then the stripes start to form on the fins, then the rest of the body.

 

[Riley S]

Here's one pre-stripes:

 

[Zoodiver]

Sorry for the junk pics, but these are the ones I bred several years ago. You can see the stripes the newly hatched pups have.