Baby bamboo shark feeding

[mbuch21]

Hi All,
I just hatched our first baby bamboo shark. I’m told it needs to be “hand fed.” The first few weeks. I tried putting some shrimp through a turkey baster right in front of it but it didn’t know what to do. Any guidance on when/how/what to feed this infant bamboo shark would be super helpful. Thanks!

 

[mbuch21]

Hi All,
I just hatched our first baby bamboo shark. I’m told it needs to be “hand fed.” The first few weeks. I tried putting some shrimp through a turkey baster right in front of it but it didn’t know what to do. Any guidance on when/how/what to feed this infant bamboo shark would be super helpful. Thanks!

 

[mbuch21]

Anyone have any guidance? He still hasn’t eaten and it’s been around 18 hours since hatch. Help!

 

[Chrisv.]

Have you tried other foods? Maybe some small scallop chunks or some small squid chunks?
Also, most sharks are most active at dusk. I would be inclined to have extremely reduced light in the tank and add some food and walk away. See if it eats without you there. The idea of hand feeding them is great, but keep in mind, to this tiny shark, you are a threat. It likely feels that it's life is more in danged due to your presence than due to lack of food. On that note, I'd add some PVC in there so that it has the ability to hide. I've not coaxed baby sharks to eat, but I have coaxed many other things to eat-- and the animal's sense of security is almost always the issue.

 

[Crazysharklady]

Hi All,
I just hatched our first baby bamboo shark. I’m told it needs to be “hand fed.” The first few weeks. I tried putting some shrimp through a turkey baster right in front of it but it didn’t know what to do. Any guidance on when/how/what to feed this infant bamboo shark would be super helpful. Thanks!

I've started all my sharks with ghost shrimp. I use tongs to feed.

 

[Crazysharklady]

I've started all my sharks with ghost shrimp. I use tongs to feed.

Everything I've read states you have 10 days to get them to start eating. I panicked with my first shark and bought almost every type of food in the store lol They all eat live ghost shrimp, my 3 yr old sharks still go crazy for them. The hardest part is getting them off the ghost shrimp, all of mine eat Omega One Alaskan Shrimp.

 

[adsf430]

Seconded on the tongs. You can't just squirt it in front of them you have to like let it come to your tong and grab it from you. Also highly likely you'll have to resort to live ghost shrimp on a tong so be prepped.

 

[adsf430]

Should also add they're kind of like eels, when it comes to feeding assume they're blind and smelling the food and trying to find it or sense it's movement. Or maybe my benthic sharks have just been stupid haha