Eating your own livestock? What?

[AJsTank]

I ate 2 clowns and a bicolor blenny after they died from ich. I'm still alive lol, when you cook them it kills the bacteria

haha - How did they taste?

 

[evolved]

Post-mortem fish fry... Not for me. He doesn't know why the fish died so he could be ingesting a parasite or disease in the process. If the fish wasn't taken out immediately after death, decomposition occurs quickly in saltwater.

+1000

I ate 2 clowns and a bicolor blenny after they died from ich. I'm still alive lol, when you cook them it kills the bacteria

Assuming the temperature is hot enough, for a long enough period.

 

[Dowtish]

I know farmers that have cows, pigs, and chickens and they raise them and take care of them and then they end up on their plate. At least they know where they came from and what they were fed....

I know its a little off topic, but the point remains the same. We eat food everyday that come from awful conditions and sprayed with pesticides, treated with antibiotics, and preserves with chemicals you cant pronounce and have no idea what they do to your body long term.

Eating a fish from your tank after it dies is not a good idea, but if you were to do it, I would definitely say it would need to be healthy when you decide to catch it and clean it.

I cant believe I just typed that.

 

[McAllyn]

I know farmers that have cows, pigs, and chickens and they raise them and take care of them and then they end up on their plate. At least they know where they came from and what they were fed....

None of the farmers I know find one of their livestock dead in the back 40 and say, "Well... looks like we'll eat THAT one tonight," without knowing what it was that killed it. But then again, I have family in Moore County and road kill is never completely out of the question.

Mac

 

[KoleTang]

I'm all for eating lionfish, but I'd be worried about disease.

I'm actually going to try hunting them when I'm in Florida here soon. Florida declared open war on them so no regulations on SCUBA, Snorkel, amount, size, etc. LOL

 

[VirusAcro]

This hobby is no waste..lol

 

[MitchReef]

A number of years ago a friend raised a cute little spotted Panther Grouper to 16 inches, in a huge tank then trapped, killed and fileted it. I can speak for the fresh fish taste!

 

[PaulKreider]

I wouldn't, but it dosent sound to obscure, some fish that we have in our tanks you'd never find in a restaurant, so maybe its exotic dining lol.

 

[ahtatt]

If they're big enough, why not? A little return on your investment.

 

[Tradewinds]

Post-mortem fish fry... Not for me. He doesn't know why the fish died so he could be ingesting a parasite or disease in the process. If the fish wasn't taken out immediately after death, decomposition occurs quickly in saltwater.

+1 Exactly. It would almost be like eating a fish that washed up the beach, no thanks.

 

[Eienna]

I would be worried about one thing, and that is that many medications made for ornamentals are not to be used on food fish because a remnant stays in the tissues and can be very unhealthy for us.

Now, I've never eaten one of my own fish, but I had to put one of my freshwater fish down not so long ago. On postmortem, he was found to have a major bowel obstruction as the cause, so I gutted him and fed him to my mom's puffer.

 

[shse666]

This simply can't be a good idea.

 

[ritter6788]

The side of some fish food says "do not feed to fish for human consumption". That's enough for me.

You can catch or buy fish anywhere around here so I can't imagine ever being hungry enough to eat any fish out of an aquarium.

 

[Mr. E Wrasse]

Haha that guy is kind of weird to eat his own fish but living in south florida, I shoot lion fish all the time and can honestly say its one of the best white meat fish I have ever eaten. With that said I've never actually done it but I have wondered how mystery wrasses taste since hogfish are a wrasse and taste amazing im curious to see how the little guys would taste. I could never do it myself though!! They're too awesome

 

[aileen]

My wife constantly tells me she wants to eat my hippo tang and my sailfin.

 

[fretfreak13]

Dont eat your reef fish. Tangs get HUGE. Why don't you ever see them on the menu at resturants?

Ever hear of Ciguatera?

 

[joeogio]

Dont eat your reef fish. Tangs get HUGE. Why don't you ever see them on the menu at resturants?

Ever hear of Ciguatera?

That's a good point although I would imagine the level of the toxin in the fish probably relies heavily on the amount of dinos the fish eats. Im sure w wild tang eats way way more dinos than a captive tang. However I read somewhere that people in Hawaii eat yellow tangs by the kabob full

 

[Mr. E Wrasse]

That's a good point although I would imagine the level of the toxin in the fish probably relies heavily on the amount of dinos the fish eats. Im sure w wild tang eats way way more dinos than a captive tang. However I read somewhere that people in Hawaii eat yellow tangs by the kabob full

Yeah I highly doubt tank raised tangs would have ciguatera in them because it comes from a special dinoflagellate. And hawaiians can eat them because some are immune. Its just like bahamaians and big cudas

 

[mrcoffee2]

My wife said, "don't you dare get any ideas."