crazyelece
Fish Addict
First off the main goal is to get the egg to hatch a viable specimen. If and when that happens I can reasonabbly house the shark in my 120 (4x2x2) far a good while. Like I said 10% chance of success aint all that much. Also I have always liked the elasmobranches and was always looking into getting one. Although my personal favorite is the epaulette, I have also been looking into some of the others. Also no direct experience with sharks but stingrays are very similar. Kind of like saying you don't have experience with african cichlids although keeping central americans. Any way I appreciate concerns, what I didn't appriciate was comments such as "leave in on the reef" and "you don't have enough room for a shark". Also the comment about the 10,000 gal reef shark tank was just to point out I am not working too blind. There is a bunch of local experience with all different types of sharks. Just no one that has started from an egg. I have all the foods, vitamins, supplements, etc. from keeping the rays. Also a note with the small fish, why is it bad for the shark to be born with and around small fish. Any different than in the wild somehow? Just concerned for the small fish? I just don't get where the concern is coming from. If its for the fish well if the shark has them for dinner so be it. I will have considered the project a success if it were to get to that point and any of my fish can be replaced. I only have a few that I am sentamental about, the rest are there for color and show.
Also I have confirmed the spieces of shark with more research. I also wanted to emphasize that this egg wasn't taken from the wild but gotten from captive reproduction. The aquarium that provided the egg cases couldn't support any more sharks in their tanks and traded the egg cases to a local wholesaler. I talked the owner into giving me one to try and hatch. A couple were put up for sale and the rest got shipped to one of their clients. When I was researching rays I hated not being able to find firsthand info on anything I was having questions with. I am just trying to document my processes so that anyone else out there looking for some info may be able to find it.
Also I have confirmed the spieces of shark with more research. I also wanted to emphasize that this egg wasn't taken from the wild but gotten from captive reproduction. The aquarium that provided the egg cases couldn't support any more sharks in their tanks and traded the egg cases to a local wholesaler. I talked the owner into giving me one to try and hatch. A couple were put up for sale and the rest got shipped to one of their clients. When I was researching rays I hated not being able to find firsthand info on anything I was having questions with. I am just trying to document my processes so that anyone else out there looking for some info may be able to find it.
