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So i walked into the pet store today where i live and they're selling two sturgeon. I've looked everywhere and cant find anything on keeping sturgeon in an aquarium at home. Is this possible? Are there sturgeon that dont grow huge? If not should i want to buy them and do something with them to keep them alive so someone else doesnt kill them. What do ya think? Apparently u can email me on this too, in new here bye the way.

pappyy3

There are approximately 26 different species of sturgeon, and they all grow to one size -- HUGE!

If your petshop has sold you a sturgeon that I would be returning it and demanding my money back. You're going to be running out of tank space soon

Tbx

If it was a white sturgeon they could live in a 200 gallon they only get 4' same as an arrowana and in my opinion they look better than an arowana I would love to have one if I had a tank that size.Here at a pet store in Huston they were selling a freshwater saw fish for $7,000 The pets stores do sell huge fish but that is for people who have built in door ponds and stuff.

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mattnjamie

i used to have sturgeon in my 55 gallon it took them about 8 years to get close to outgrowing my tank

Tbx

Yeah that is true they take a long time to grow kind of like a clown loach.

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twood63

I thought that was like keeping bass in your tank. What is the law about that?
Not being a prude. I was told by 1 LFS that fish from local waters can't be a tank fish but I saw bass for sale at another LFS????

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Tbx

I reccomend you think about deleting this post, it is very irresponsible to reccomend that other members on this forum break the law. Laws are in place for a reason, a native fish in captivity, and then realeased back into the wild can introduce new disease, fungus, bacteria, and parasites, potentially killing an entire ecosystem of fish, as well as the native fish introducing the same into aquarium fish, causing even more problems for fellow hobbyists if those problems make it back to say.. your local LFS.
-Andy.

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Andyoybna

Not to sound rude, but a four foot fish, in a 6 foot tank, would be like keeping an eight inch fish in a 10G tank, the fish is 2/3rds the length of the tank, and most likely at least twice the width, making it impossible to turn around.
Also, I believe you may be mistaken on the potential size of a white sturgeon.

And an article on some sturgeon as well, mentions catching an 11' 4" sturgeon weighing over 800 pounds, and 120 years old.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...%3Den%26sa%3DN


And I couldn't agree with this more... See above picture and article.

Why would you want a fish that has the ability to almost certainly out live you, in which time, you would need to literally spend thousands of dollars to properly keep one, not to mention feeding a several hundred pound fish. And of course, the fines, and possible jail time for illegally keeping a native species.

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Tbx

That is just what it says on liveaquaria, and it says they could live in a minimum tank of 180 gallons.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...catid=2533&N=0

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Tommy Gun

Just keep in mind that websites like liveaquaria.com are trying to sell you something so they are not and should not be considered a completely honest resource for scientific information...for example, I would probably get run out of school if I was to cite an online store within a research paper. Just like TV, you can't believe everything you see on the internet...and trust me, this is coming from someone who loves liveaquaria.com enough to travel to their outlet store and back in one day for more than 6 hours of solid driving!

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For the record, I have deleted one of your previous posts since you obviously haven't taken Andyoybna's suggestion to heart...and because I won't allow anyone to promote the bending, twisting, or breaking of any law on this forum. Thanks for understanding.