Aquarium for a black tip reef shark

[Adeesh Yuvaraja]

I have no Idea, the black tips can get up to 6 feet I think. This is one build for the professionals

Ive heared that too, for me once they cross like 4ft ill give them off to the public aquarium, they def have space for much larger sharks

 

[Adeesh Yuvaraja]

If you pull this off you’d better make a build thread, I’d LOVE to see it

Will definitely try to do that

 

[Adeesh Yuvaraja]

wow, you will need to sell tickets

Haha ill defintely recover the budget but its gonna be parallel to a living hall and badminton court so it'll be like my private therapy time!

 

[Adeesh Yuvaraja]

That works out to be a bit shy of 15,000 US gallons. Unless it is a round tank, that would not be enough space for a pair of adult blacktips. They reach about 50" in captivity.

Jay

Hi, thank you for the advice!, it'll be a like a long oval with wave makers in the corner, if needed i can increase the size a bit more, what would you reccomend? And ive also made arrangment with a local public aquarium to rehouse the sharks when they're a bit too large and they'll give me smaller ones in exchange. Will that work?

 

[ShakeyGizzard]

Your intent may be for black tip, but don't forget about the bonnet head shark. Distant cousin of the hammer head that only gets up to about 4 feet. But beware, they are jumpers too, along with the spinner shark.

 

[Adeesh Yuvaraja]

Your intent may be for black tip, but don't forget about the bonnet head shark. Distant cousin of the hammer head that only gets up to about 4 feet. But beware, they are jumpers too, along with the spinner shark.

I love the bonnet heads and ill be covering the top of the aquarium! So jumping is not an issue but its very difficult to get one of them here, u can actually rescue other hammerhead species but they're just gonna be too big, ill rather rescue it and give it to a bigger aquarium, give it to a marine institue or just leave it in the sea.

 

[Gregg @ ADP]

Before he was thrown in jail for ever and ever, R Kelly had a shark tank in his Olympia Fields house that I took care of. I can’t remember the exact volume, but I feel like it was around 7k gallons. It was 20+ ft long with bullet ends, and contained two black-tips.

It was a pretty standard set-up for the time…big skimmers, lot of mechanical and chemical filtration, UV, sand filter, etc.

Overall, the sharks were healthy, but I would describe them as largely unenthused about life. They were about 2’ long when they went in. I stopped working for him after a while, so I have no idea what ended up happening to the sharks once they got big. Knowing how big of a crap-bag he is, he probably had somebody throw them into the Calumet River.

 

[ShakeyGizzard]

Well, looks like he is doing the time for doing the crime, rot in hell

 

[ShakeyGizzard]

He is lucky none of my family or friends are involved in his crimes. If they were his headstone would read: ticked off the wrong dude

 

[Adeesh Yuvaraja]

Before he was thrown in jail for ever and ever, R Kelly had a shark tank in his Olympia Fields house that I took care of. I can’t remember the exact volume, but I feel like it was around 7k gallons. It was 20+ ft long with bullet ends, and contained two black-tips.

It was a pretty standard set-up for the time…big skimmers, lot of mechanical and chemical filtration, UV, sand filter, etc.

Overall, the sharks were healthy, but I would describe them as largely unenthused about life. They were about 2’ long when they went in. I stopped working for him after a while, so I have no idea what ended up happening to the sharks once they got big. Knowing how big of a crap-bag he is, he probably had somebody throw them into the Calumet River.

Ohh but 7k gallons seems a tad too small doesn't it, ig once the sharks grew a bit more they would have struggled but i hope someone rescued it later or sm and aren't hopefully thrown out.