Looking for shark eggs

JC1977 · Feb 12, 2023

ibajaks said:
Update: huge shout-out to Polly's pets in san Antonio. They were able to get me a healthy egg within a week at a very reasonable price. They also might still have an extra if anyone in the san Antonio tx area is interested.

Awesome news and congrats! Please keep everyone posted on your progress with the new shark!

Renaissance corals · Feb 12, 2023

JC1977 said:
Awesome news and congrats! Please keep everyone posted on your progress with the new shark!

Its very developed. Should hatch with 3 weeks. Ill try to get it on video

SueAndHerZoo · Feb 13, 2023

Would love to follow along on this thread, I'm picking up my shark egg tomorrow from my local LFS. I hatched one several years ago and it was an amazing experience. Keep in mind, getting it to eat after the yolk is depleted gets very challenging. I finally found something he would eat and ended up bringing some to my LFS to try to get their to eat and it worked. But now I can't remember if it was squid or octopus he finally took to, may have to look up one of my old posts. Keep us posted!
Sue

SueAndHerZoo · Feb 13, 2023

Also, would love anyone's thoughts/experience with hatching it in the destination tank or hatching it in a separate vessel? Last time I hatched it in the destination tank but ended up catching it and moving it to it's own tank so I could try to get it to eat. Then back into the original tank a few weeks later. Wonder if all that moving causes too much stress on the animal.
Sue

Renaissance corals · Feb 13, 2023

SueAndHerZoo said:
Also, would love anyone's thoughts/experience with hatching it in the destination tank or hatching it in a separate vessel? Last time I hatched it in the destination tank but ended up catching it and moving it to it's own tank so I could try to get it to eat. Then back into the original tank a few weeks later. Wonder if all that moving causes too much stress on the animal.
Sue

I plan on feeding ghost shrimp starting out. And moving to frozen shrimp/ squid and cheap live fish. Also its first tank is a 40 breeder. Then a 36"x24"x18". And ultimately a 8'x4'x2' 478 gal

Renaissance corals · Feb 14, 2023

Update: I thought the shark looked about ready to hatch. When I got the egg peeled, the outer film off the opposite side to see the underside of the shark and check the yolk sack. It is completely absorbed and healed up. So tonight we are going to ""hatch it"". (Open one end a bit and let it do the rest) we will be taking a video and pictures for all to enjoy.

Renaissance corals · Feb 14, 2023

Baby lenny is here!!! We failed miserably at taking a video. After several attempts we gave up and as soon as we stopped recording on the last attempt it darted right out of the egg. Seems to be very healthy and is quite active.