Do horseshoe crabs taste good?

[Alpha_and_Gec]

Have anyone ever tasted horseshoe crabs? I realized that my tank would be open to a lot more giant inverts(true/spiny lobsters, rock crabs, etc) if I am just willing to eat them near their max size. The thing is, I've never heard of anyone eating horseshoes outside of their native range, and I'm not sure if their taste is worth it. I can probably keep a Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda reasonably well for its entire life, but I haven't been able to find any of those in stock. Mostly just Limulus polyphemus(huge).

 

[Nano_Man]

You need tomato sauce

 

[Alpha_and_Gec]

You need tomato sauce

lol more like barbeque sauce and fish sauce.... my brother would probably know how to prepare them.

 

[Stomatopods17]

I've only ever heard of people eating their eggs in vietnam.

I don't think you actually eat their meat.

 

[CoralB]

If it’s in my reef tank I wouldn’t eat it even if it’s ok to do so .

 

[sc50964]

Not sure about eating them but their blue blood is apparently a life saver

Horseshoe crab blood: the miracle vaccine ingredient that's saved millions of lives

Nature plays a huge part in the medicines we rely on every day.

www.nhm.ac.uk

 

[bushdoc]

Even if they are delicious, I would never eat my pet.

 

[Rp8]

They are ok, rubbery if over cooked. Not much meat. Even for a crab

 

[paragrouper]

You can eat pretty much anything with enough Tabasco sauce.

 

[Stomatopods17]

You can eat pretty much anything with enough Tabasco sauce.

Mmmm... palythoaaa

 

[mijan]

You can eat them. Be aware they really aren't crabs but more related to arthropods. Think scorpion not crab.

 

[PeterEde]

I still don't see the big deal of prawns/shrimp, crayfish/lobster let alone crab.
I eat 3 kinds of fish and squid.

 

[BubblesandSqueak]

well their blood is high in copper which is why it is blue. the amount of meat you would get from them is basically like a clam size. There is a lab in Delaware that milks them for their blood, tags them and tosses them back in the water to limit how many times they can be milked. They use the blood to make Limulus Amebocyte Lysate for bacterial endotoxin testing. Basically anything that goes inside you needs to be tested to ensure the batch was effectively sterilized.

 

[BubblesandSqueak]

An interesting topic would be.... "should you keep a horseshoe crab in your aquarium with copper sensitive critters"?

 

[Alpha_and_Gec]

You can eat them. Be aware they really aren't crabs but more related to arthropods. Think scorpion not crab.

yeah, that's why I was originally thinking of deep frying like how my mum does scorpions. Might be too thick to do that though.

 

[Alpha_and_Gec]

An interesting topic would be.... "should you keep a horseshoe crab in your aquarium with copper sensitive critters"?

The copper in a horseshoe crab is bound in haemocyanin molecules, which would not be released until the protein decomposes or is destroyed. If people can keep lobsters without the copper waste becoming toxic to fish, then I doubt that keeping a horseshoe crab will pose an issue. The biggest deal is it plowing over corals and other inverts and getting stuck in random places.

 

[Alpha_and_Gec]

You can eat pretty much anything with enough Tabasco sauce.

I'm going to be entirely honest, I've got no clue what Tabasco sauce is....

 

[Wrassenaround]

Have to say this is the first thread I've seen on here discussing eating tank habitants that we have raised / grown

 

[Alpha_and_Gec]

I've only ever heard of people eating their eggs in vietnam.

I don't think you actually eat their meat.

yeah that might be a dealbreaker.... I'm getting a male if possible to limit size, but that would also potentially mean it tastes like ****.

 

[Alpha_and_Gec]

They are ok, rubbery if over cooked. Not much meat. Even for a crab

ain't a crab, more like a huge scorpion or spider. I hope their legs are as meaty as they look.