Are Sharks Legal?

[gotteeguy]

is it legal to keep dusky, blacktip, or sandbar sharks as pets? i caught a few very small ones on a bridge yesterday and let them go but i was just wondering...

and NO, there are no captive breeders of these species and everyone knows that most reef fish are wild caught...

 

[youngfisher]

I believe some species of there family are legal.
But it all depends on where you live I think.
I could be wrong as I have no knowledge on sharks.
Would you really want to risk that in your tank?
It could cause serious damage.
And when you realese it to the wild it might not thrive as much.
As its used to getting fed without effort etc.
Just a thought.

YF

 

[Mikaila31]

Don't sharks like that need a MASSIVE tank..... like a small swimming pool?

 

[kj23502]

You could keep a cat shark or something similar.

They are legal in the US as far as I know. There may be a few municipalities that have outlawed them, though.

I'd like to have a shark someday.

ANY shark that can't stop moving needs a minimum of a few 1,000 gallons and is better left to the ocean or in public aquariums.

 

[saltynay]

Contact your local aquarium if you can privately house them and if they will take it in once it is too big for you. Black tips get up to 5'+ and by keeping it in a hole aquarium you will lessen its hunting instinct so an sea life centre would be the only ones who would have sufficiently large aquariums with feeding similar to home aquaria. All sharks need to keep moving to pass water over their gills it is only not true sharks which don't. To handle a shark once caught hold it upside down and it will be knocked out until returned to upright.

 

[scott133]

i have wanted a shark tank and have asked my lfs to order me some in and all they can give is eggs as they adapt better to the aquarium life but they are very hard to raise un till they have settled in but i know a bamboo shark needs at least a 800lt aquarium to its self

regards scott

 

[gotteeguy]

thanks guys! i did not know that hanging one upside down will knock it out! i'll probably get a small one some day. would it eat an adult horseshoe crab or hardhead catfish??

 

[gotteeguy]

also, what saltwater fish lays an egg the size of a small marble and is a greenish color with some grey? i bought some live rock at my LPS and they always give me wierd things. last time it was some coral. now they gave me some purple colored live rock or coral or something. they also said something about frag but i can't remember. and along with the frag/LR was a fish egg! i've had the LR for a couple weeks now, but i just discovered the egg yesterday. so does anyone know of the egg species? i can email someone a pic of it from my iphone, the only working camera.

 

[kj23502]

All sharks need to keep moving to pass water over their gills

Some sharks can lay and keep their mouth going to push/pump water past their gills.

it is only not true sharks which don't.

So you're saying if it can stop then it's not a true shark?? I beg to differ and a bamboo shark IS a true shark and they can rest on the ocean floor, just like they do in aquaria.



Kingdom Animalia -- Animal, animals, animaux
Phylum Chordata -- chordates, cordado, cordés
Subphylum Vertebrata -- vertebrado, vertebrates, vertébrés
Class Chondrichthyes -- cartilaginous fishes, condrictes, peixe cartilaginoso, poissons cartilagineux, raies, rays, requins, sharks, tubarão
Subclass Elasmobranchii -- cartilaginous fishes, rays, sharks, skates, torpedoes
Superorder Euselachii
Order Orectolobiformes -- carpet sharks, gatas nodrizas, requins-tapis, tiburones tapiceros
Family Hemiscylliidae Gill, 1862 -- bamboo sharks, longtailed carpetsharks
Genus Chiloscyllium Müller and Henle, 1837
Species Chiloscyllium punctatum Müller and Henle, 1838 -- brownbanded bambooshark

edit---
here's the clasification link
http/www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/Sing..._credRating=All

 

[kj23502]

thanks guys! i did not know that hanging one upside down will knock it out! i'll probably get a small one some day. would it eat an adult horseshoe crab or hardhead catfish??

Don't hang it upside down Just flip it over so it's in the water but the back is facing down with its belly facing up. It puts them in a trance. I don't know how long they can stay like and it's not that natural for them. Only do it if you have to.

 

[andywg]

All sharks need to keep moving to pass water over their gills it is only not true sharks which don't.

This is so wrong it isn't even funny