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Remember me? I was the newbie that asked why my shark wasn't eating. Well just letting everyone who remembers my thread know that my shark is eating great. Feeding him/her 2-3 times a week as recommended, unfortunately my roommate (yes that idiot) thought that my anemone was dead when it was...

so the shark has started eating, and appears to be doing just fine!

unfortunately the ray isn't "mine" and my 2 roommates apparently don't like taking advice and don't think that just because the ray is moving that he doesn't have enough room. So I'll try and take your advice and see if the LFS will take the anemone and the shark back, but the ray is staying...

yes, I did acclimate the shark and you've already told me about your job at the aquarium. So if I'm going to kill the shark and the anemone, thereby killing everything else in the tank, would the best option be to take it back to the aquarium, more than likely to be sold to another clueless...

I hope the shark starts eating soon, I don't want to see it die due to negligence or ignorance on the topic of raising it, which is why I'll return it before it becomes too late

But if the parameters of the water are fine then that obviously isn't the reason why he isn't eating, and for the time being he's about 5-6 inches, which you yourself said when your shark hatches he is going into a 120 gallon until he's a foot long. Why doesn't my 120g 6 foot tank work for the...

Ammonia is between 0 ppm, nitrate 5 ppm, pH 7.6 , and nitrite is .0 ppm. So it appears that pH is a little low

Ok well first off it's a 6 foot tank. Second I never claimed to want to put in the entire Ocean. My roommate said he had a few years experience and I took his advice on what would be compatible. I also was curious as why the pet store person kept these fish in a tiny little 10 gallon...

so back to my origional question, how does anyone here suggest that I get the shark to start eating

another thing that I forgot to mention was that we only have the house until the beginning of august, at which point my roommate is going to take the fish home. For the time being is the tank suitable for what we have? If it is for the time being then awesome, I'll tell him to make sure to get...

Yeah I was reading up on that, the anemone seems to be doing fine, I'm just worried about the shark eating, and now I'm worried about how much room they have together =/ no bueno

fair enough, he was the one that got the stingray and he told me to get a shark, so I'm assuming that he either is BSing me on his previous knowledge, didn't research much, or was just over excited. The tank has been up for 2 weeks yes, so more than likely I should take the anemone out huh?

I'm pretty sure we have enough light, we have 3 fairly high output lights, although I'm not sure what wattage the bulbs are. and the shark doesn't rly swim a lot, he just kinda lays there most of the time

Well like I said in the post, I myself have 2 weeks of experience, my roommate has had saltwater aquariums before, i think a few years of experience. But apparently having a shark and stingray and about 6 or 7 other fish is a bad idea? In that case since I've already gotten in this bad...

I am new to the saltwater aquarium hobby, although my roommate is not new to it. I have a couple questions, one not so much about the topic. First things first: I have read in multiple places that feeding banded sharks is a very very tricky thing to do from the start. We've tried feeding him...