SHARK & RAY AVAILABILITY PAGE
We are proud to offer the widest assortment of sharks and rays in the business, bar none!!!
IN RESPONSE TO THE COVID 19 US SHUTDOWN, we wish to aid our clients in the US trying to recover from the economic damage done to their businesses. We know all too well the impact that these unAmerican actions have had and will have on the US economy as we struggle to survive ourselves. We are very concerned about the wellbeing of the animals in your care as well as the health of yourselves and your clients. Accordingly, all US orders received by us before May 1st will be given some free bonus animals of our choosing based on the order volume. Just place your order and once it is solid, we will advise you of the bonus animals. We are also looking to expand our offerings by looking into providing frozen seafood for our smaller clients. We understand how hard it is to absorb the hit for feeding all your animals with no income. For the first time, some of you are understanding our plight when we are forced to hold your order beyond the quarantine period and absorb the feeding bill on a huge shipment.
We are now offering fresh water monster fish for large predatory tanks (including interactive freshwater predator displays). We now offer catfish up to 4 feet long (multiple species order ASAP), other monster predator fish from SC as well as invasive freshwater species for our Invasive Species Education Program. They are very exciting for your guests and offer unique interactive opportunities. We are dedicated to the reopening of ALL American venues and providing the public a calm, relaxing and normal aquarium experience ASAP. Normalcy, rest and recreation are critical and foundational to mainaining a stable, healthy human population! Panic, stress and deprivation cause illness and devastate the human immune system. This must end as soon as possible for the health of our nation!
SHARK SUPPLY LLC IS EXPANDING!!! We now offer tanks, consultancy for startup micro-aquariums and micro-zoos as well as cutting edge filtration for the same. We have expanded our inventory with the addition of LARGE predator fresh water fish (monster fish) for interactive programs for zoos and aquaria. We still offer imported fish, inverts, shells, and more from the Pacific year round. Retailers can get our weekly stocklist. Retail customers must provide an order for us to bid. To order Pacifics, email us your species list.
We do provide some local Atlantic species year round. For live feeders and cleaners, Click Here. For stocked schooling fish from the Atlantic and Caribbean, click here.
Please, do not forget that we offer aquarium design consultation from concept to completion as well as equipment and aquarium leasing. From residential and office aquarium shark tanks to public aquarium displays, commercial filtration equipment and even some decoration and backgrounds. Call us for consultation or leasing bids. Consultation is highly recommended PRIOR to settling on a design or size. Most of the time we receive requests for sharks for inadequate tanks because the designers hired simply did not know enough about sharks and their peculiar and specific shape and volume needs. Once the tank is built it is too late to modify it to accomodate obligate swimmer sharks 99% of the time. Therefore, a consultation at time of concept discussion is critical for your build.
NOTE TO DEALERS & RETAILERS: LOGISTICS TAKE TIME TO PLAN ESPECIALLY ON INTERNATIONAL ORDERS! These aren't equipment or dry goods. They are LIVE animals collected to order. |
Price quotes are only given to qualified buyers after they have submitted the requested information. Do not bother asking for prices for obligate swimmer sharks without providing the following info. |
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NEW Super Rare Sharks & Rays (Listed at top as these disappear quickly!!!) |
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Species | Availability | QUALIFICATION Tank Size Requirements |
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Sharks (click name to view photo) |
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Atlantic Sharpnose (Rhiziprionodon terraenovae) [Pups to Subadults] Qualification Code: 6+ Sharpnose require round tanks 12 feet or more in diameter or long runs of 20 feet or more with a minimum turning radius. Just because they are small, it does not mean they can survive in a small system. This species is great for kid's display during feeding time as they school and look like they are frenzying when being fed. Great crowd pleasers! |
NOTE: 6+ Indicates that the shark is an obligate swimmer that Requires 6 feet or more of Turn Space 6+ = 6 feet WIDE not LONG
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Check out the YouTube Clip of this Species LEAST CONCERN |
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Blacknose (Carcharinus acronotus) <3'
With new federal restrictions on these, you need to place your order NOW. The open season is too short to accommodate late orders and we do not collect and hold these without an existing order. |
Order Now for Summer delivery | 6+ | Pics from NOAA NOT THREATENED |
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Bull (Carcharinus leucas) [pups-adults] | Order Now for Summer delivery | 6+ | NOT THREATENED |
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Bonnethead (Sphyrna tiburo) [pups-adults] | Order Now | 6+ | Check out the YouTube Clip of this Species - Starts with Sharpnose but shows a bonnethead after. LEAST CONCERN |
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Mini-Bull Shark, AKA Sand Shark, AKA Finetooth Shark (Carcharhinus isodon) [Pups to Subadults] They have a bull shark look, but only grows to about 5', better than blacktips as they are less excitable and swim more slowly. Called Finetooth by Baughman & Springer 1950 though the latin name means "same tooth". One of the benefits is that they do not have the wider longer, bladelike upper teeth of bulls sharks that do more damage if they nip a tank mate. Arecibo Lighthouse Aquarium kept these with a life span of 7 years as their first large shark breed! | Order Now | 6+ | NOTE: The flat tip of the top dorsal fin was a war wound. This plate was made from a dead specimen collected by a commercial fisherman. The caudal fin normally ends in the usual Carcharhinid point. This was an adult though the pups are nearly perfect scale models of an adult. Unlike other sharks, this species pups fat proportional pups rather than the usual skinny awkward pups that have to grow up to look like their adult shape. LEAST CONCERN |
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Hammerhead (Great & Scalloped Sphyrna mokarran & S. lewini) [pups] NOTE TO HOME AQUARISTS: DO NOT CALL US if you do not have a 20-30 foot system for this species!!! Also if you do not have several thousand dollars just for the truck shipment cost, please, do not waste our time. Few home shark keepers can house a hammerhead. NOAA and some special interests are trying to close Hammerhead collection for good. If you don't buy them this season, we CANNOT guarantee that you will be able to get them anymore. BUY NOW or risk not having them on display in the future. We thought we had this beaten and now it has resurfaced. |
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6+ Turning
With 20'+ run or circular system |
Check out the YouTube Clip of this Species | ||
Lemon (Negaprion brevirostris) [adults] | Order Now | 6+ | This species is not a good species to mix with others. It is not a staple of the public aquarium trade. So, we do not spend any time collecting them anymore unless they are ordered in advance. | ||
Nurse (Ginglymostoma cirratum) [pups-adults] We have the lowest shipped price in North America! We are offering 3' (1m) specimens now. 1 month lead time on most orders. |
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Sandbar, AKA Brown (Carcharinus plumbeus) [pups to adults] | IN STOCK | Public Display only - Not sold to Private Aquarists | Pic from NOAA | ||
Sandtiger (Odontapsis taurus, AKA Carcharias taurus) [pups (rare) & adults 6-10 feet] |
Public Display only - Not sold to Private Aquarists | \\ VULNERABLE |
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Smooth Dogshark (Mustelis canis) [Subadults to Adults] |
6+ | NEAR THREATENED Despite popular misconception, Smooth dogsharks require round tanks 12 feet or more in diameter or long runs of 20 feet or more with a minimum turning radius. Just because they are durable in shipping and can breath when motionless, it does not mean they can survive in a small system. In fact, this species craves large expansive tanks and requires more space to be happy than even a Minibull. Dogsharks thrive in a 20' round! The reason that the ones in our picture were in a prism tank with a 15' run and they wanted more space. |
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Imported Sharks |
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Pacific Blacktip Shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus) |
MINIMUM ORDER IS (3) three sharks These are imported and transshipped direct to your airport!!! |
NOT THREATENED |
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Rays and Skates |
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Atlantic Shovelnose Shark AKA Atlantic Guitarfish (Rhinobatos lentiginosus) These are one of the wildest looking rays in the world showing their similarities and relationship to sharks. Their shark-like body and fins are added to their ray head with a clear nose longer than that of a Clearnose Skate. These Atlantic breed are very hard to collect and we are lucky to get one in a season. We can supply the Pacific breed. |
ATLANTIC RARE We also get the Pacific species commonly. PACIFIC SPECIES |
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Atlantic Stingray (Dasyatis sabina) These are great stingrays with plenty of personality. They are smaller than southern rays. They will follow and beg for food if conditioned for touch tanks. They respond well to personal attention and hand feeding. They will swarm and vie to be first in line at feeding time. Given their size, more rays can be fit into a single tank. If you ask for smaller specimens you will get the greater longevity as they will not outgrow your system.. Best species for touch tanks |
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Bluntnose Stingray "Say's Stingray" (Dasyatis sayi) | Order Now | ||||
Bullnose/Southern Eagle Rays (Myliobatis freminvillei & goodei) [all sizes] AKA - Bat Rays |
Order Now for Summer delivery | ||||
Butterfly Rays Smooth and Spiny (Gymnura altavela & G. micrura) [all sizes] | Order Now |
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Clearnose Skate (Raja eglanteria) [all sizes] | |||||
Cownose Ray (Rhinoptera bonasus) [all sizes] | 6+ | ||||
Southern Stingray (Dasyatis americana) [all sizes] & Roughtail Stingray (Dasyatis centroura) Most popular species for touch tanks |
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Yellow Stingray (Urolophus jamaicensis) [small] | Order Now | ||||
Spotted Eagle (Aetobatus narinari) [all sizes] This species of ray is a free swimming ray that graces the oceans of the world. It is considered the one of the most desirable rays given its graceful swimming, its adult size and the length of its tail which is about the longest of any stingray tail in the world. |
Order Now For next available |
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NO GAMES! WE GUARANTEE LIVE ARRIVAL ON US DOMESTIC SHIPPING OR YOU GET ANOTHER SHARK! Anything less would be highway robbery or straight up fraud. Anyone who cannot guarantee live arrival of the fish they ship does not know the business well enough to be in it. |
Our collectors maintain proper permits for all fish!
We are not fly-by-night amateurs. We are professionals with over 25 years experience in sharks.
You should never buy sharks from anyone selling or collecting them illegally. If you know that you are buying an illegal animal, you may face federal as well as state charges if prosecuted. You may also be charged under the Lacy Act for interstate violation of STATE game laws just for transporting an illegally obtained fish across state lines or ordering it state to state online. This is not a joke. Fish and game laws protecting these animals are being enforced.
Federal and state sentences are handed out to violators REGULARLY!
PRIVATE AQUARISTS: You will be asked to provide a lot of information. You will also need to email us a photo of you and your system before we will discuss any price not already posted on this site. We will not sell you a shark that is too large for your system. If you find this requirement a nuisance, you should try and buy elsewhere. You cannot understand how many requests for sharks and prices by home aquarists who do not have a shark tank set up. Those inquiries waste our time and money. That is why we require the photos. No photos, no response. You should also know that there are certain species that we cannot sell you or that are too pricey for you. For now, please, contact us by email. Provide your phone number and we can call you back. We will not be posting our phone number yet as we do not wish to be overwhelmed with calls. If you have an adequate system and you really want a shark, you will comply with our requests and you will probably be able to own the shark of your dreams.