Feeder Fish

[Dorkhedeos]

Feeder fish are doomed no matter what. If they stay in the aquarium too long, they die slowly of a disease, if they get fed to other fish, they die a little faster and be in pain from the stomach acid. If we chop them up into fish food, they wont even know what happened. No offense but, nobody is supposed to be a vegetarian, our teeth are designed for chewing vegetables and meats. I think feeder fish should only be used if it is needed to keep the fish alive. You can try Fun Feeders

 

[staredecisis]

No offense but, nobody is supposed to be a vegetarian, our teeth are designed for chewing vegetables and meats.

How long do you think humans have been on this earth? The bible says 6,000 years, scientists say millions and millions. Only within the last 50 or so years has there even been ENOUGH meat to eat at every single meal. This new trend is absurd and unhealthy (hence the outrageous obesity epidemic). Only 100-200 years ago, meat was eaten around once a month, as farms were the main source of food. And during the dark ages meat was eaten even less, only a couple times a year. If people still had to track their meat for days and kill it with a bow or primitive inaccurate rifle, then gut clean and maintenance it, people would go right back to the diet they are supposed to be on. Primarily vegetarian. Very few people would want to hunt enough to eat bacon and sausage every morning, a chicken salad and cheeseburger for every lunch, and a steak for every dinner.

Vegetarianism has been proven to be a supremely healthy diet, rate of heart attacks in males decreases by NINTEY percent. So don't believe the consumeristic fast food chain media propaganda that you are fed day in and day out on TV, billboards, and every street corner.

Just because you CAN eat something doesn't make it a good idea. I could eat dirt fine and well, but you won't catch me doing it any time soon.

By the way, it has already been addressed in this post, that there is no way around the double standard, truly. The issue is HOW the animal dies. Most people that don't agree with feeder fish, don't own fish that require such a diet, as Ken has pointed out. If you could pick to die a painless, instantaneous death, or to be slowly burned alive and digested by acid, which would you pick?

 

[CFC]

Has anyone ever kept the Amazon Leaf Fish and fed it prepared foods? I have my eye on a pair in a LFS, but they have refused everything but live fish for the guys there.

I got the last one of my leaf fish to finally take pellets after around 2 years of trying, i originally had 3 but they slowly died off for no apperent reasons, i feel they really are a fish only suitable for a species tank. They can be fed on large live bloodworms, glassworms (white mosquito larvea) and live shrimp as alternatives to live fish as they are not absolutley strict piscavors.

 

[Perky]

Just wondering CFC, what tanks do you have (gallons and dimensions) and what fish are in each tank?

 

[CFC]

I have 9 tanks ranging from 200 to 20 gallons, the majority of the bigger fish are spread between the 200, a 40 and 30 and will be seperated further into other large tanks (have the empty tanks just no room to set them up till the fish house is built) as they grow.

 

[keith]

Oh mu gosh! I call BS on staredecisis. If that were true, most doctors would be vegetarians, and they're not. The only place that you'll read that a vegetarian diet is superior is in some hippy vegin "earthy" magazine. When people are sick and they're in the hospital and recovering, do you think they give them the vegin platter? Nope. Japanese people are the healthiest people as a culture and it's due to their fish intake. Eskimos and people on the mediteranian are the same way. You can look it up. You can look up healthy diet on webmd you dang hippy vegin

Keeping a fish alive until sudden death is better than supporting the cruel fish food industry! You should see the conditions the brine shrimp are kept in! They use dull blades to chop the vegetables! I hear that the fish meal they use is NOT dolphin safe. You're feeding flipper to your fish!

 

[fishdudein]

Keith......please don't use guppies for fishing bait.....remember the summer of the snakeheads......please keep your guppies in your aquariums

 

[guppygirly]

After reviewing everything I am inclined to agree with Ken and CFC. I would not enjoy watching my fish kill each other. I'd rather see the symbiotic relationship between all my animals and plant life in the aquarium.

I do enjoy fish for dinner on occasion, but I would hate to be the one catching and killing it. I don't much see the "sport" in hunting or fishing, but I am in no way against it as long as said hunter eats his kill rather than killing numerous animals for fun.

As far as being vegitarian, I'm glad it's not a law. I would starve to death! The only fruit I like is peeled green apples and the only vegatable I'll touch is a potato (more of a starch than a vegtable really). I like meat, but again I don't want to see or participate in the animal's demise. And if you like being a vegitarian, good! That's one less animal that "needs" to be killed for human consumption.

 

[staredecisis]

Oh mu gosh! I call BS on staredecisis. If that were true, most doctors would be vegetarians, and they're not. The only place that you'll read that a vegetarian diet is superior is in some hippy vegin "earthy" magazine. When people are sick and they're in the hospital and recovering, do you think they give them the vegin platter? Nope. Japanese people are the healthiest people as a culture and it's due to their fish intake. Eskimos and people on the mediteranian are the same way. You can look it up. You can look up healthy diet on webmd you dang hippy vegin

Why on earth would most doctors be vegetarian because it is healthy? I see plenty of fat, smoker doctors. I've also heard quite a few nasty stories about doctors gone alcoholic, losing their license and moving to mexico to continue their career. That is some fallacious logic to say doctors are somehow holier than thou because they can treat illness.

And actually, I agree, fish is one of the healthiest meats, but consumption of ANY meat on such a regular basis is UNHEALTHY. Everything in moderation. Look at the history of our diet. We are not meant to eat pig and cow at every meal. And if you do a little research beyond commercials on TV, the pros and cons of vegetarianism are very well researched and very readily available. Protein intake is the biggest problem, but it's a very easy problem to fix (pizza, sunflower seeds, peanuts, or even supplement chocolate bars, much more). It is great for the immune system and great for maintaining a healthy level of body fat.

Also, your hospital comparison makes no sense either. They feed the person what they will EAT. They want the sick person to eat anything, hence ICE CREAM and JELLO being the most common for the ill. I guess we should all dine on that 24/7 since that's what is "good for sick people in a hospital"? Of course they're not going to try and convert some fat fast food addict to a healthy vegetarian diet while they are sick. They'd never eat it. People are too gluttonous these days.

This is way off subject. PM me if you'd like more info on vegetarianism.

 

[sumer_kay]

wow, big debate here, I've already said my piece, but you guys are gonna get vicious soon hehe..*throws a rock and hides behind fish tank*
MAYBE ITS A PERSONAL QUESTION OF MORALS, AND BELIEFS? I AGREE TO DISAGREE