Millionaire confesses he enjoys annoying online viewers who accuse him of being “cruel” while feeding live fish to the sharks he keeps in a $500,000 aquarium
- Millionaire unfazed by online criticism of shark tank
- Post videos of his sharks eating live fish
- Own nine sharks and other fish in a 24,000 liter tank
A millionaire shark owner claims he enjoys negative commentators saying he is “cruel” for feeding his shark-live fish in a “tiny” aquarium.
The Sydney man has posted numerous videos on social media of him catching and feeding live fish to his various sharks, including two whitetip reef sharks and a blacktip reed shark.
The fish all share a $500,000 aquarium that measures 6 feet long, 2 feet wide, and 2 feet deep, holding about 24,000 gallons of water.
A millionaire shark owner claims he enjoys negative commentators describing him as ‘cruel’ for feeding his shark live fish in a ‘tiny’ aquarium
While the comment sections under his social media posts regularly feature users making fun of him, he remains unfazed.
“When people say what I do is lame, I assume they’re vegans or vegetarians,” he told Yahoo.
“If you go to McDonald’s, that was once a living, breathing cow, no different.
Haters get views. If you do something that’s boring and good, nobody cares.”
In addition to the three reef sharks, the man also owns three epaulette sharks, two each from Port Jackson and banjo sharks, and a bamboo shark.
He also has moray eels, three groupers – a blue and two Goliath – two spotted rays, a sand ray, a coral trout and a large number of schooling fish.
Many users believe that not only does his fish share a tank that is too small, but the videos of him catching fish and keeping them alive and then feeding them to his sharks are cruel.
Nine separate sharks and a host of other fish share the 24,000-gallon tank at his Sydney home
In one video, the man catches a mulloway, or jewfish, before tossing it into a bucket and throwing it into the tank where it is forcibly eaten by his shark named Rambo.
Another video, which has been viewed more than 2.4 million times, shows numerous fish trying to flee the swarming sharks before being caught and killed.
“They’re going to tear it, they’re going to tear it,” one spectator is heard to say as others laugh.
“That’s inhumane,” one commenter wrote.
“tank is way too small,” wrote a second.
“You may want to invest in a bigger tank, that’s more of a holding tank while you clean the main line,” a third wrote.