Eating Your Fish

[Thuggerz]

Hi all, has anyone ever eaten there own fish?

 

[PaulasPets]

I have eaten the fish that my hubby caught... Why, do you have some good cichlid recipes?

Paula

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

No, but most meds used on fish to cure fish leave trace amounts of chemicals in fishes body and would make you sick if you ate the fish (which is why so many state stuff like "do not use on fish intended for consumption" etc).
Secondly, most fish commonly sold as pets apparently taste pretty aweful- goldfish and koi are oiley and slimey, while pleco's are bitter and tough. Piranha's apparently taste alright though.

 

[Anthony Young]

I heard that Panchax cakes are quite nice Ibelieve you add sugar and lemon for flavouring and are usually served on shoal Tuesday.

 

[Mr.September15]

 

[dwarfgourami]

No, but then I am not in the habit of eating other fish or animals that have died from disease either. And I am certainly not planning to eat my fish alive.

 

[Callum]

i wouldnt eat any of my fish maybe some wild piranha if you could get it from Tesco but not one of my own

 

[blue acara]

i bet an oscar would taste nice

 

[Fella]

No, but most meds used on fish to cure fish leave trace amounts of chemicals in fishes body and would make you sick if you ate the fish (which is why so many state stuff like "do not use on fish intended for consumption" etc).
Secondly, most fish commonly sold as pets apparently taste pretty aweful- goldfish and koi are oiley and slimey, while pleco's are bitter and tough. Piranha's apparently taste alright though.

A lot of plecs are treated as a food fish in their local origin however.

I've seen people eat other fish in the past, but the question would be why would you? If you kept the fish with the intention of eating it before it died of natural causes, then that would raise questions as to why you're keeping fish anyway. And secondly, if the fish died in aquaria, would you be happy eating something when you were unsure of how it died?

 

[Medionsaturn]

No. Just no. And I take it from Thuggerz drooling emote that he may have eaten them before...

 

[dwarfgourami]

Well, if I was going to eat it, I wouldn't go to the expense of setting up an whole aquarium to keep it alive. And if it died despite my efforts to keep it alive, I wouldn't feel safe eating it. So I can't really envisage a situation in which this would be at all likely to happen.

 

[wendywc]

No, never eaten my own of course. But I had had tilapia, flounder, snapper, grouper, bass, catfish, whiting, mahi mahi, tuna, salmon, ... the list goes on. All good, that's for sure.

 

[sic0198]

That is just wrong. I couldn't eat my pets.

 

[xJake]

People eat clown loaches in asia.

 

[Medionsaturn]

People eat clown loaches in asia.

They also eat Cats and Dogs there too.