Tangs Rule
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Mixing sharks and eels can be trouble
- Thread starter Tangs Rule
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- Bethpage,NY
They thought it was funny,I didn't.I think it's cruel.
- Location
- Dingmans ferry PA
it must have been 4:20 when they shot that video
- Location
- FREEPORT,LONG ISLAND
Its Just Wrong To Feed A Good Looking Ell, My Brother And Me Have Nurse Sharks Triple That Size And Nothing Stands In There Way Like The You Tube Video. We Feed Butter Fish That Is 3-4'' Long And They Just Suck About 10 Of Them Up In Two Seconds. Can't Put Any Fish With Them. In That Video, That Lion Fish Will Be The Next Guy That Nurse Shark Is Going To Eat.
I never understand why shops carry Nurse sharks. Jarret - I dont mean to be ball buster but since you mentioned it - what happens when your Nurse sharks get to be 10 feet ? Just another species best left for the specialist or in the ocean.
- Location
- Montclair, NJ
Especially when they can sell a Grey Bamboo Shark (Chiloscyllium griseum) that is much more suitable for some of the common large aquariums and as an adult looks just like a nurse shark. :irked:
Tangs Rule
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People are such idiots. There are more videos like this on youtube. One of them shows an eel eat a shark.
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- Upper East Side
I agree with Dom and Jarrett re: the nurse sharks.
However, I disagree that feeding an eel to a shark is "cruel". What do you think these animals eat in the wild? They are predators - they are just doing what sharks do. Is it less cruel to feed a shark an ugly eel? If a person is going to keep a larger reef predator in their tank they have to be prepared to offer it live foods for nutrition and stimulation. The cruelty is keeping a nurse shark in a small aquarium.
However, I disagree that feeding an eel to a shark is "cruel". What do you think these animals eat in the wild? They are predators - they are just doing what sharks do. Is it less cruel to feed a shark an ugly eel? If a person is going to keep a larger reef predator in their tank they have to be prepared to offer it live foods for nutrition and stimulation. The cruelty is keeping a nurse shark in a small aquarium.
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- FREEPORT,LONG ISLAND
jejton, when my sharks get big I at least buy bigger tanks for them. some people just dont have the $ to do this or even dont know how big they get. I at least new what I was getting into. I am trying to donate them to this LFS on the island that has a 1000gal show tank but they have a bubble bee grouper that the store thinks might kill them. I would bet my money on it that my sharks would take him down(there about 5' long). the bigger they get the meaner they get.It just wrong to see LFS sell them.I hope they stop selling them as babies and make a law to sell them at least 3' long. I have them for about 10 years already.
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- Long Island, New York
Those guys are morons....!!!!! What a shame...poor moray...
Fully agreeed that they eat the eels in the wild, what I have a problem with is when you have the shark and eel in such a small environment you are really just tourturing the poor animal the second it enters the tank. It really had no chance at all of survival. I fully agree with your comment of the big shark in a small aquarium. As a whole it is just cruel.
Jarrett - No offense intended but you are proving my point. You cannot house them adequately as adults so you are trying to find them a home ( which at least is more responsible then letting them loose or keeping them in too small a tank ) but you are having trouble doing so. Aquariums wont take them and few stores have the capacity to take them.
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I feel bad that the eel was taken "tail" first. That can't be a good way to go.
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