Remora

Echeneis Sharks should be added to very large aquariums with a fine sand bed as they will grow quite large. Stable rockwork with plenty of caves, cracks and crevices should be provided for resting. Careful thought and consideration will need to be done before adding to home aquariums. Remora will require host animals such as other Sharks, Rays, Large Fish, or Turtles. They use their suction like modified dorsal fin to attach themselves to a host. Remora are poor swimmers lacking airbladders instead they have two lobed liver that maintains their buoyancy. As juveniles they may act as cleaners setting up a station on rockwork picking parasites off of the willing specimens. They also act as a cleanup fish from their hosts meals. Sharks have a keen sense of smell and eyesight as well as renewable teeth. They are sensitive to both electric impulses and copper maintain aquarium with neither present. Provide a diet rich in meaty based foods fed multiple times daily.

Remora are also sometimes known as Live Sharksucker or Slender Sharksucker. Not often seen in the aquarium trade. Remora generally are a dark grey to brown color, dark belly, thick dark stripe on each side from its jaw to the base of its caudal fin, black pectoral and ventral fins, dark gray to black dorsal and anal fins with white margins and black caudal fin with distinct white fin corners. Remora can grow to a little over 43" but more commonly seen at 26".

We recommend a minimum aquarium size of 300 gallons or larger for this species.

Water conditions: Salinity 1.020 - 1.025, Temp (F) 72 - 78, pH 8.1 - 8.4, Alkalinity 8 - 12 dKH