how about a sturgeon?

Well now im takeing this way off topic which I shouldnt do as a mod but AC started in 1997 before that the site was called Tankbusters and pertained to mostly large rare fish and cichlids kind of like MFK does now. I think it was tankbusters for almost 2 years before Mike Decided to make this a general aquaria site for all fish enthustist's to enjoy.
 
fish_freak said:
Well now im takeing this way off topic which I shouldnt do as a mod but AC started in 1997 before that the site was called Tankbusters and pertained to mostly large rare fish and cichlids kind of like MFK does now. I think it was tankbusters for almost 2 years before Mike Decided to make this a general aquaria site for all fish enthustist's to enjoy.
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I don't mind, being a casual mod is better than being an enforcing one. and wow... I thought this had had been around for 7 years, but it's even older! this must be one of the oldest aquarium sites on the web!!
 
I meant that the sturgeon probably eats mollusks. Look, the liveaquaria website is in the business of selling fish. Of course they will tell you that the fish is "easily kept" in aquariums of 180 gallons. The truth is that 180 gallons is FAR insufficient for a 4 ft. fish.

You seem dead set to get this fish, and that's your decision. But why, then, did you come to this site and ask if it was OK? Everyone told you that it is a bad idea and you are still going to get the fish. It seems you came for affirmation and not advice. Next time either keep it to yourself, or genuinely listen to what people tell you. If you really cared about people's advice, you would realize that this is a bad idea.

Enjoy your fish (it certainly won't enjoy you.) Harsh, I know. but jeez.....
 
FC, I have a fascination with sturgeon, too! My lab let me take a baby green sturgeon home a few years ago. Both those and white sturgeons get to HUGE lengths (like over 8 feet). Mine died after I used Rid-Ich (thus my recommendation for everyone to stay away from chemical ich treatments). But if it hadn't, there's no way I could have kept it. I would have had to give it back to my lab where they have huge, circular flow-through tanks to house adult sturgeon.

I have to agree with everyone else and say leave those to the professionals. I'm personally never going to try to house one again.

But sturgeon are on my list of favorite fish. They're VERY cool looking and are just unique in almost every way. Do you know that they're secondarily cartilaginous? Their ancestors had bone, but they lost it. They also have spiral valve intestintes like sharks and rays.
 
plah831 said:
FC, I have a fascination with sturgeon, too! My lab let me take a baby green sturgeon home a few years ago. Both those and white sturgeons get to HUGE lengths (like over 8 feet). Mine died after I used Rid-Ich (thus my recommendation for everyone to stay away from chemical ich treatments). But if it hadn't, there's no way I could have kept it. I would have had to give it back to my lab where they have huge, circular flow-through tanks to house adult sturgeon.

I have to agree with everyone else and say leave those to the professionals. I'm personally never going to try to house one again.

But sturgeon are on my list of favorite fish. They're VERY cool looking and are just unique in almost every way. Do you know that they're secondarily cartilaginous? Their ancestors had bone, but they lost it. They also have spiral valve intestintes like sharks and rays.
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drgold... okay... i'm sorry... I didn't want affirmation, I wanted advice. you're totally right. it's just that when I get an idea to do something, I put my all into trying to do it and i'm very stubborn about not doing it once I get going and it's hard to get me off of it. please, i'm sorry.... and plah... saying stuff like how they're secondary cartilaginous is making me want one again.... try to make them seem boring, please. :D
 
fishcatch22 said:
when I get an idea to do something, I put my all into trying to do it
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that's good! It's great to be driven, as long as you're not going to take it too far and do something foolish (meaning you're putting yourself or another living thing at risk). I'm not saying wanting a sturgeon for a pet was foolish. I mean, I did the same thing myself. Fortunately, or unfortunately, the poor thing died before he could have been stunted.
 
plah831 said:
that's good! It's great to be driven, as long as you're not going to take it too far and do something foolish (meaning you're putting yourself or another living thing at risk). I'm not saying wanting a sturgeon for a pet was foolish. I mean, I did the same thing myself. Fortunately, or unfortunately, the poor thing died before he could have been stunted.
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sometimes I can't accept i'm wrong on something like that..... science, no prob. but keeping pets.. pets that I know a lot about, usually... I can't accept that.... it was a bit of an outlandish idea, anyway....
 
Well, FC, I'd like to commend you on your mature decision. I know it must have hurt (but not as much as losing a long-loved pet), because it sounded like you had your heart set on it. But you and the sturgeon will be better off for it :)

By the way, my college (University of California, Davis) was keeping them as part of a research project in aquaculture. If they could learn to keep sturgeon in captivity, they could make profit on the caviar while helping protect the species in the wild. I applied to that program for graduate school, but didn't get in :(

It was cool to see these 6-8 foot long dinosaurs in a circular tank about 20 feet across. Like I said, it was flow-through so it was getting fresh, clean water pumped in 24/7.

If I was rich, I'd want flow-through fresh and salt water in my house so I could keep all kinds of sharks and sturgeon and stuff. Yeah right :p:
 
yeah.... I probably would never have been able to go through with it, anyway... I guess I was just fantasizing... :( when i get my PFD, i'll do a bichir in a 55G. now thats feasible, and they are a little like sturgeons...
 
fishcatch22 said:
when i get my PFD, i'll do a bichir in a 55G. now thats feasible, and they are a little like sturgeons...
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they ARE secondarily cartilaginous like sturgeon! You can still use that line :D

What's PFD?
 
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