Salmon Egss

[Lib95]

Anyone ever use salmon eggs for feeding? Fresh ones of course versus the cured ones. I'm sure they are quite a bit bigger vs. capelin eggs.

 

[Clownshow]

I have toyed around with the idea since I throw alot of them away every year from all the salmon me and my family catch but the salmon have some kind of invasive asian parasite in their stomach area and I don't want to risk giving it to my fish.

 

[Lib95]

I wonder if freezing them would help mitigate that risk.

 

[ichthyogeek]

Not really, I don't think my fish could handle the size of salmon eggs.

 

[dennis romano]

Don't do it. A few years back, I caught a few trout for dinner. One was loaded with eggs. I decided to give my cichlids a treat. I fed eggs to my display tank and to a tank of fry that I was raising. Within two days, every fish in both tanks had a nasty disease that was resistant to all meds. Both tanks wiped out.

 

[ReeferWarrant]

I use the smaller roe from sushi that I had leftover from making Poke. It's in the freezer right now though, I'll probably add it to my frozen food mix.


Picture to cause jealousy haha

 

[afboundguy]

I wouldn't risk it to be honest. The frozen cubes of fish eggs are cheap enough and I use them and the fish love them...

 

[Sump Crab]

Anyone ever use salmon eggs for feeding? Fresh ones of course versus the cured ones. I'm sure they are quite a bit bigger vs. capelin eggs.

I feed speckled trout roe from fish I clean for the dinner table.

 

[MabuyaQ]

Fish roe is excelent food. May contain parasites (not common if the fish is cleaned properly, intact roe sac), but those can be killed by washing the roe in vinegar if you want to use fresh roe or by freezing the roe for later use.