They are pretty active on social media, you may be able to reach out to them and get an answer from the aquarium or the zoo.
Oh, those fellas are blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus), the smaller cousins of the Atlantic blacktip. C. limbatus is a larger and more pelagic species. But good tip, I’ll check socials or try them by phone!They are pretty active on social media, you may be able to reach out to them and get an answer from the aquarium or the zoo.
OdySea in Phoenix had them in January this year.
Ah my mistake! Thanks for clearing that up, they were still signed at the South Carolina Aquarium when I was there last week, FWIW. I will be doing a review and picture dump, but by any chance is this a match?
That one appears to be a subadult sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus). When I visited SCA (waaaaay back in 2021, tbf) they had sand tigers, nurses, blacknoses (Carcharhinus acronotus), and what looks to be that very same sandbar or a similar one. They said the blacktips hadn’t been on exhibit for a while at the time…hope maybe they come back at some point, or perhaps they already have. But yeah that doesn’t seem to be one.Ah my mistake! Thanks for clearing that up, they were still signed at the South Carolina Aquarium when I was there last week, FWIW. I will be doing a review and picture dump, but by any chance is this a match?
Gotcha, then I did not see any there either. Just that individual, two sand tiger, and a bunch of chain catshark in a touch tank.
Ah man, shame that their blacknoses may have departed. I would bet dollars to doughnuts that they still have the nurse sharks lol, they are always hiding according to all of the aquarium staff so I didn’t see them either. But yeah, I don’t expect that any aquarium has an Atlantic blacktip except for maybe ABQ, then.
This is my only shark tank picture from when I was in ABQ May 2022, if it helps at all:
The two sharks in the veeeeeeeeeery back could possibly be C. limbatus but it’s basically impossible to tell. I have video evidence from various YouTube postings that they had at least one blacktip as recently as April of this year, as they had one individual who had a very distinctive pectoral fin defect. However I suspect that fin was somewhat pathological, and that said individual may have passed, as I can’t find a single video of it from more recently than April. I would think they’d have made an announcement if a longtime shark resident had passed or been transferred but they haven’t. It’s a bit of a mystery.This is my only shark tank picture from when I was in ABQ May 2022, if it helps at all:
I just received confirmation off of their Facebook page - they no longer exhibit C. limbatus or any kind of blacktip for that matter. It would seem that the last captive blacktips in the United States have now passed away.
That is disappointing, thanks for sharing.I just received confirmation off of their Facebook page - they no longer exhibit C. limbatus or any kind of blacktip for that matter. It would seem that the last captive blacktips in the United States have now passed away.
