Great White Sharks?
by Aquaboy on Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 | 9 Comments
Why can’t great white sharks be kept in aquarium tanks?
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If your aquarium is the size of an Olympic swimming pool you might be able to.
Even then it’s difficult as they are an open water swimmer and will not like the restricted space.
Ian
They are too big and would die unless it was huge
because you need a tank nearing the size of a football pitch.
there are some that have been kept in some public aquariums, but only for a short while and there’s a high mortality rate. many are captured from the wild, kept on display for a month or two, studied, and released back in to the wild before they die.
Because, they are really big that you may even need a tank of 2000+gallons (thinking bigger)
Also, they can be very hard to keep, and very hard to take care. It would be also very costly because you need to buy a lot of feeder fish to them.
CC
You rather buy some sharks that can be pet because Great whites are not preferable as a pet unless you have a 3-5000 or even more gallon tank that most of public aquarium has because they’re open swimmers, they’re enormous predators and prefer long distance swim.They’re carnivorous and it’ll cost you lots of money a day just to buy kilos of meat to feed them
they have NEVER been succesfully kept in captivity
2,000 gallons isn’t nearly enough for a great white!
You’d have to have one on the order of millions of gallons. The georgia aquarium has multiple Whale Sharks, which are bigger than great whites, so its not just the size… Great White’s just wouldn’t be a good fish to have in a tank.
Great whiter sharks swim up to 40 miles an hour in long bursts. They also are deep watewr fish and usually live in waters exceeding 1000 feet deep. An olympic swimming pool would still not be enough for this 22-28 foot eating machine.
I worked closely with Camden Aquarium who has the largest shark tank in the world at the time. They were trying to hold the Great Whites close cusin a mako shark. We ended up catching a small 3 fot mako. The shark lived for 2 months in the tank and by the time it had passed It had broken it’s nose on the tank so many times that it was unable to swim under the water it would just skimm the surface because of it’s upward bent nose. The sharks they keep in aquariums can be found in almost any small saltwater body in the world such as sandtigers and sandbar or dusky sharks. The dusky is about as deep water shark as they caN HOLD IN A AQUARIUM.
one theory It has to do with the electric currents that all tanks and lights give off the other is that they just wont adjust to being held in tanks they need the open ocean I said theory because it has not yet been proven what the reason is they die or get sick and are released