Coconut skin

[Dorkhedeos]

i have a whole bunch of coconut skin, the white part, from a fresh coconut. does anybody know what i can use this for? i also can get the shell if i crack it in half. is coconut meat safe for fish to eat?

 

[Opcn]

The white part is the meat .The shell (Hard brown part) can be used as a cave, and the husk (useually taken off on the coconuts you get here) can be used in planting terrestrial plants. The meat however isn't very useful unless you have a fish that eats nuts such as a pacu,Fish need strong jaws to eat nuts.

 

[Discomafia]

Coconut meat isn't a nut. There aren't any nuts in coconuts. The meat is for YOU to eat. It's some good stuff. I used to eat it fresh off the tree. Mmmmm. Cocount meat. I miss that stuff.

 

[Opcn]

A coconut doesn't have any nuts inside it, it is a nut, you don't find beans inside of limabeans do you?

 

[bluefire]

yeah no nuts in em, but i have heard that the shells make good caves and spawning sites for some species such as bn pleco

 

[Discomafia]

Yea, but he's obviously asking about what to do with the meat (white part)

Do you mean to say pacus can actually eat coconuts? I'm impressed. And yea, of course I know there aren't any nuts in coconuts, that's the second sentence in my first post...

 

[Opcn]

Pacus use there powerful pirahna jaws t crush nuts in the wild, coconut meat is much like the meat of any other nut.

 

[Discomafia]

I wasn't aware that other nuts have meat in the same sense that coconuts have meat. Can you give me an example of such a nut? Thanks.

 

[DarkSide]

All nuts have a 'nut meat' its the almond, or the peanut, inside the shell.

 

[Discomafia]

You mean the nut itself? That's the meat you are refering to? If you've ever eaten a coconut, you'll know the what I mean by a coconut's meat being different from that of other nuts. Totally different stuff...

 

[Paul_MTS]

it's only difference in the sence because it's wet, but all nuts will have a certain ammount of oil in them.

 

[Dubby]

You mean the nut itself? That's the meat you are refering to? If you've ever eaten a coconut, you'll know the what I mean by a coconut's meat being different from that of other nuts. Totally different stuff...

I know what you mean..........Most of the other nuts we eat have a fleshy outer part with the nut inside, whereas the coconut is built the other way.

I guess it also depend on when you eat the insides. I mean if you were to eat a tender coconut, the meat is pulpy and sweetish. Once it hardens (thats when it typically comes into our supermarkets) the meat is hard and needs to be cut with a knife. If left longer you will end up with dessicated coconut.

Most other nuts that we eat, fall into the last stage, I guess - they have been dried and hence hard.

PS: and to answer the main question, I have never tried to feed my fish with coconut.