Shark

[Ariellemcc]

If you have a white spotted bamboo shark or a banded cat shark or any other cat shark, what are your goods? What are your bads? What do you need to know before getting into a shark?

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

If you have a white spotted bamboo shark or a banded cat shark or any other cat shark, what are your goods? What are your bads? What do you need to know before getting into a shark?

None of the "cat sharks" (actually bamboo sharks) stay small enough to be kept long term in most home aquariums. They will easily outgrow a 300 gallon tank. I've seen banded bamboo sharks over 3 feet long.

If you have a large tank (say over 180 gallons) you can keep a coral catshark long term.

Jay

 

[Aspect]

If you have a white spotted bamboo shark or a banded cat shark or any other cat shark, what are your goods? What are your bads? What do you need to know before getting into a shark?

Goods are amazing visual pleasure and satisfaction knowing you are keeping a beautiful species healthy. Bads are they are nocturnal and will only really come out with the lights for a feeding response. Also, good healthy food can get pretty expensive when they mature. Also, yes like Jay mentioned a gray bamboo sharks (Smallest available chiloscyllium species in the hobby) will need at minimum a 6' x 4' tank. As for Banded Bamboo sharks they will need a 500 gallon minimum as they can get 3'+. Even Coral/Marbled Catsharks which don't even reach 2' typically will need the same 6' x 4' minimum as they are active swimmers at night.