Smooth Hound Sharks

[Jigglezz]

Hello, I would like to know if anyone might now of any pet stores, or anywhere that get in smooth hound sharks, or any other type of sharks.

 

[woodman]

where is shark from? sound's like dog shark.

 

[Jigglezz]

Not sure where they come from, but a couple pet stores use to carry them where i live a couple years ago.

 

[chazertis]

if you have the means to care for them i'd check shark and ray central. there are vendors there that sell them

 

[Jigglezz]

Is there a website, or do you have the link for shark and ray central?

 

[Domboski]

Contact Rudy (screen name Shark alley on Shark & Ray Central) and let him know I sent you :wink1: He gets beautiful and healthy sharks.

 

[TOTAL AQUARIUMS]

Need some info on your tank size and overall setup. They're available from time to time but I doubt any store would really just carry them as stock items.

 

[e.muehlbauer]

Years back, Fishtown used to sell smoothounds for what I remember as being an outrageous price, considering that they appeared to be nothing more than our local smooth dogfish shark. If that is what a smoothound is, keep in mind that it is a cool water fish, not a tropical....and that it can reach close to 5 feet long when full grown. They are very common...drifting a bait on a small hook in a local bay at night could probably catch you some small ones in July....but I don't know how well they would recover from the hook damage.....

 

[chazertis]

http://z8.invisionfree.com/Sharks_and_Rays/index.php?act=idx

 

[Jigglezz]

I 've had my 150 gallon setup for 4 years now and its doing very well. I had a leapord shark 2 years ago before the ban, and sold it to a pet store that had been looking for one. I'm currently having a 300 gallon setup built in my basement, and would love to have it as a shark tank.

 

[Jigglezz]

do you have a link, or website to fishtown?

 

[Domboski]

I wouldn't add a smoothhound to a 300 gallon. I was at Country Critters today and they had one in a tank at least a 1000 gallons and still the smoothhound had sores on the end of its nose from rubbing up against the tank wall.

For a 300 gallon you may want to consider a pair of Coral Catsharks or Marble Catsharks. Just as interesting as a smoothound except more equipped to be in a tank that size. There are also many bamboo sharks that can live in a 300 gallon tank.

 

[Orca1]

I agree with Domboski. I was at Country Critters yesterday too. The Smooth Hound in that monster tank had a pretty nasty sore on his snout. IIRC, that tank is close to, or greater than, three thousand gallons. Last week, they had a pair Blacktip Reef sharks and two weeks before that, they had what appeared to be a Sixgill shark in that same tank. How on Earth is anyone going to keep an animal like that?

 

[jabber jaws]

fish supply.come i bought my smooth hound over there in cali they ship out i spent about 210.00

 

[howze01]

Don't think that a 300g is enough for any shark. Maybe for a year or 2 at most but that's about it

 

[TRIGGERMAN]

Don't think that a 300g is enough for any shark. Maybe for a year or 2 at most but that's about it

exactly..I would say minimum for 1 small shark is 1000 gallons if you don't have that it's cruel it's like putting a grown man in a closet. Don't do it. Get some nice fish instead,not to mention sharks are really boring and don't do anything unless they are eating..usually the reason is that they are miserable in captivity and don't live long. Leave sharks in the ocean where they belong.

 

[e.muehlbauer]

All the smooth hounds I have seen for sale were nothing more than local smooth dogfish, Mustelis canis.