Eating Your Fish

[MHunt]

I thnk my neons would get stuck in my teeth!

I think there are some large cichlids eaten in some parts, as well as giant gourami!

 

[starrynightxxi]

my pets, no, but i've got nothing wrong with the use of the fish species i keep or any other pet animal (dog, cat, horse, etc) as a food source.

 

[yvez9]

In Florida they catch Oscars and eat them, as well as in south america. They must taste better then pellet-fed oscars though.

I wouldn't eat my pets, but i would eat oscar fish if i was given the opportunity. just not home cause our oscar gets mad when he sees us eating fish

 

[TammyLiz]

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.

My thought exactly. Why go through all the trouble just to end it in a meal? I have nothing against going to the grocery store and buying a fish for dinner because all I have invested in it is a little money, and nothing against catching a fish to eat because all I have invested is one afternoon or morning and a little bait. But all the water changes and everything over the years it would take to grow a fish large enough to eat? And the expense of the tank? No, that meal would be too expensive. Plus, in all that time, I tend to get attached. I'd rather just continue to watch it swimming happily around in my tank. Thats just the nature of the hobby.

 

[fishfishfish]

ive eatin my own fish,but they were in captivity for that reason.i had 10 or so perch and got em all big and fat.didnt use ANY chemicals though so i was lucky

 

[Naughtygirlrlw]

I couldn't eat my babies!

 

[iSnail]

i bet an oscar would taste nice

This reminds me of when I was very little.... many many many years ago . This didn't happen in this country I vaguely remember that my mum kept a few oscars in a small tank and obviously they quickly out grew their tank. Someone told mum that Oscars were edible and mum decided to make a meal out of them Well..... of course no one ate any of it in the end.

 

[pavetheforest]

EW

 

[iroc]

seems like a very expensive meal, I mean maybe I just pay to much for my fish but for the price of like 5 neons you could go to a sushi bar and have like 6 tuna cuts which would be about 30 times the amount of fish.

 

[Dragonscales]

Alot quicker, cheaper and easier just to go to the fish and chip shop and get a nice piece of battered flake or cuta IMO

It'd probably taste alot better than most aquarium fish too

 

[iSnail]

seems like a very expensive meal, I mean maybe I just pay to much for my fish but for the price of like 5 neons you could go to a sushi bar and have like 6 tuna cuts which would be about 30 times the amount of fish.

I think the live food for the oscars costed a lot more than the fish themselves..... Mind you, even the oscars wouldn't cost too much in those days in the Far East

 

[halfbloodprincess]

This is just so wrong.

 

[iSnail]

Just different culture, isn't it? In a most countries, people still keep animals for food source. The animals would have been kept just like pets..... maybe not as pampered as we keep ours.

 

[altselgreen]

Thats just sick! I mean who would buy a fish from an aquatics retailer just so that they could cook it and eat it!!! Thats just wrong!!!



Sam

 

[csr mel]

on a $20 dare i once drank a glass of milk which had a live platy in it. i kept it down too.

but no i dont normally eat fish.