where can I buy a real shark Not a catfish but a real shark/

www.liveaquaria.com sells sharks. Your local live fish store can probably order a small one for you, also. However, keep reading..

"Most aquarists at one point or another want to keep a shark. But one thing most people don铆t think about is the shark itself. People often set up small crowded tanks and then make the crowding problem worse when they add a shark. I铆m going to make it clear, 90-95% of aquarists can not keep a healthy shark alive for any period of time. It requires patience, time and most of all discipline.

Shark sizes range from the 6 inch Spined Pygmy Shark to the 49 foot Whale Shark. A common myth of new shark keepers is that if you buy a small shark and put it in a small tank then it will become a dwarf shark. THIS IS NOT TRUE! I sadly read about too many people who buy sharks and put them in tanks that are way too small for them. I recall a woman on Wetwebmedia.com who had a 4 foot tank with 5 sharks, totaling 5 feet of fish. Of her five sharks, two were Leopard Sharks. These sharks, when fully matured, need a 4,200 gallon tank. She also had both a White Spotted and a Brown banded Bamboo Shark, plus a Horn Shark. Horn Sharks need cool water around 65 degrees.

Of all sharks there are two that come to mind when size is a factor. They are:

The Epaulette Shark (Hemiscyllium ocellatum) Minimum Tank Size: 260 Gallons

The White-Spotted Bamboo Shark (Chiloscyllium hasselti) Minimum Tank Size: 220 Gallons