with a flashlight we could actually see what's going on inside oh my can you see
this so last week we came to my local fish store to pick up my fish order we
got that lion fish as well as smoked snowflake eel both are doing fantastic
but we also mentioned a secret fish you see I wanted a porcupine puffer as well
to add that this aquarium simply wasn't available so in substitution Jeff the
owner of the store said Joey why don't you get a shark
and I said no sharks are just gonna get too big and you know he recommended
bamboo sharks now of course a huge concern with ordering sharks for only up
you know one hundred and forty gallon system is they're gonna get quite big
which is true of course they get to about three feet in length but what we
were just looking at is the shark eggs what I wanted to get the sharks for was
simply to experience the hatching process with you guys hopefully getting
the eggs to hatch in the aquarium raising them off of some food and
watching them grow and bringing you guys along for that trip I thought that that
would prove to be extremely interesting and since I do have a love for
elasmobranch 'iz I certainly had a difficult time resisting however when it
comes to the bamboo shark they're not exactly a fast growing alas small branch
which is in the family of sharks rays and skates it will be a couple of years
in this aquarium before I kind of need to upgrade them and or maybe we turn the
375 or that 500 gallon system into a saltwater tank or potentially donate it
to one of the local universities that has tanks that have thousands of gallons
in them that would love to have a shark now when it comes to those sharks I
don't want to drop it just in my aquarium I want to and I'm buying to to
give myself a better chance of actually having one hatch and the survivability
rate of those are tend to be kind of low however I think we're gonna have some
pretty good chances as long as we keep up with our water quality with that said
again I don't want to just drop it directly into the aquarium I want to be
able to clip it to the side of the tank I've called a couple of veggie clips
technically you would take these and clip a bit of seaweed or whatever you
want to feed your you could even attached regular food to
it suction cup that to the inside of your aquarium and they'll be able to eat
off of it many of you might have been able to see this before - what we're
gonna do though is we're gonna take the shark egg making sure not to hurt him
attached him at this end make sure he's okay
so when I slowly tip this over the yolk sac I'd went to the bottom and he's
squiggling at the top now so this is safe so we're gonna take this we're
gonna suction cup it to the inside of the aquarium
now I've already temperature acclimated him and that's kind of the only thing
I'm really worried about is making sure that the temperatures matched other than
that the salt water is not going to be able to penetrate this at a rate that's
gonna be too dangerous so we're gonna put him right there and he's gonna be
here for simple reason at any given point I want to be able to come over to
the aquarium take that flashlight and monitor his progress and you know kind
of see how he's doing and see him in there squiggling around now see him so
this is gonna be awesome not only do we have one but we have two so this doubles
our chances of success now I've read depending on where they are in their
life cycle within the egg it could take upwards of six weeks a couple weeks or
it could take four months and I'm excited just to take you guys along for
that process now the problems with these guys is I don't really need to acclimate
them see if they're already in this shell basically it feels like a tough
plastic or maybe a really hard leather and this is a yolk sac within it so if
we take a closer look with a flashlight we could actually see what's going on
inside see that that's the actual yolk sac within it now eventually this is
going to hatch or slowly start to evolve into a shark a baby shark and based on
the fact that it is just a yolk inside of it right now I would suspect that
this might take anywheres from four weeks to even upwards of four months to
actually hatch again I don't want to keep it out of the water too long let's
switch today I got two of them for a specific reason
just to raise our chances of actually being able to hatch one out now it has
its own little ecosystem in there this is a sealed egg it's not leaking or
anything like that so I think the chances in here are pretty high
I actually see a little bit of movement do you guys see that let's see it from
the top here oh my can you see this oh wow so that's how it works so inside of
this egg is the actual yolk sac and then if we look on what's actually sweet
wiggling around on the outside that's the shark now his belly button or his
umbilical cord will be attached that yolk sac and that's how he's going to
get his nutrients Wow I've never seen this before but that's
exactly what I wanted to do with you guys is his experiences together so
obviously this guy's not gonna be hatching out in a week or two
he's definitely oh wow it's almost like a fully sized shark in there so it's
almost like he's a like a very very miniature shark you could see his head
and his tail his entire length of his body it's almost like a tiny little worm
now not all sharks actually lay eggs in fact more sharks and Alaska branches in
fact give birth to live pups sharks skates as well as freshwater stingrays
I've shown you guys the birth of a freshwater stingray in the past giving
birth to a fully formed young and if you ever look at the belly of a stingray
they usually have a black dot on their belly that's their belly buttons and
previously their yolk sac would have been attached to but isn't this amazing
how most of that egg is the yolk sac and there's this tiny little squiggly line
attached to it I want to make sure that both have that so there's one this guy
definitely does oh he does too
Wow isn't that I've never experienced anything like this I know I'm entirely
excited now I know that when you hear the word shark a lot of us will think of
Jaws or something dangerous along those lines but these are not dangerous to
human beings these are a carpet shark they'll spend most of their lives along
the bottoms of the aquariums see if I can get this guy to do the same thing
where is he I want to make sure that his body is not suffocated by his yolk sac
so moving it slowly there you go I was perfect take the veggie clip these are
in there nice and snug he's gonna be okay but not too snug as to damage the
egg or puncture it and then they're too tight so that the fish can't pull them
out clots are too big for the Laurium fish to eat it anyway so I got to admit
this is a pretty awesome tank now I have so much to kind of look forward to one
with the snowflake eel being so active and you know pretty much entertaining me
and being a funny fish to have he'll be fun to get nice and fat over time of
course and then we have the lionfish I'm particularly excited about this guy
because he's going to pose to be a bit of a challenge you see when it comes to
lionfish one of the most difficult things to do with these guys is they're
a hearty fish so they're gonna be pretty much fine in almost any conditions
however it's difficult to get them eating anything but live food so he's
gonna be a challenge to get off of live foods and get him eating prepared foods
as well as just fresh foods that I can now provide him and make so I'm excited
to see what happens with him of course look at this eel just going crazy I love
this tank now and then of course we get to watch the development of two sharks
within these two eggs I'm kinda see them squiggling around in there so we'll get
to watch these guys develop over time as you can see him there as well isn't that
amazing Wow so of course we will watch the
development of these guy over time but I also don't want to miss
the moment they actually hatch you see once we notice that the yolk sacs are
almost gone I'm going to set up a 24-hour seven days a week recording
camera so that we capture the moment that these guys hatch and we can share
this moment with you guys as well unfortunately they're so tiny I have no
clue how long this is gonna take them bottom line though is that this is an
awesome aquarium I can't wait to bring you guys along for the ride and show you
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you AR UJ o ey pretty simple anyways guys hope you enjoyed today's video I
hope this doesn't disappoint you but if it did again I'm just chasing what I'm
really interested in and I'm truly happy with it I hope there's something about
this tank that inspires you or piques your interest especially since it's such
a low keeping very simple scape took me a day to throw it together type of deal
salt water is not that difficult it's not that intimidating I hope many more
of you join me in my journey into salt water cross your fingers that I don't
turn this whole rack into saltwater tanks