dead fish

[necrocanis]

This may seem a little morbid, but what do you guys do with your fish when they die? Do you eat them? I have heard that some people eat their fish when they die. Do you throw them away?(what a waste) Feed them to your other fish in small chunks? Or are you like me, and do you study them? On the rare ocassion that one of my fish dies I study the anatomical features. Mainly because catfish anatomy intrigues me. I am in the miltiary now, and I am studying to be a zoologist. I want to specialize in skull morphology of fish. So if you guys have any extra fish/fish heads that you don't need, please let me know. It would really help further my studies. I would even be willing to pay a small fee for your dead fish. I am really interested in what you guys do with your dead fish though. Bet someone has some funny stories. When my rtc died from bad feeders I dissected him and found that he had glass(from a busted heater), rocks, and bone in his stomach. I also prepared his skull for study/display. I will try to post some pics when I get a chance, in my album. This site is great guys. I love it allready.
cliff

[joeytoe]

Depending on the size of a dead fish, If theyll flush then to the toilet they go, Seeing as Ive never liked the taste of fish I dont eat them(although Ive heard Oscars are good eatin). So more or less big fish are either trashed or used as fertilizer.

[necrocanis]

:screwy: one guy I knew, ate his rtc when it got too big for him to handle. He told me it tasted like pork.

[bluedempsey]

Centralmayhem does eat them when their dead, they have to be alive and kicking :ROFL:

[jenBLKAROWANA]

My big Aro is being mounted right now! I can't wait to get him back! But otherwise we flush them, or bury them.

Jen ;) (by the way....Welcome)

[Fish_are_fishfood]

Periwinkles and crabs take away my fish before I even know they are dead, I have never seen or removed a dead fish from my tank. Of course I am only talking minnows, not the big monsters.

[necrocanis]

well from now on, if you don't want them you can allways see if I am interested and maybe make a few bucks too. I am really interested in cranial morphology, mostly in catfish, but all fish are studied. I hate messin with little ones though. Bones too brittle.

[Fish_are_fishfood]

I got some skulls and stuff, heres one of, well I am not to sure..ha you tell me...
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=502/medium/skullllllssss_1_.JPG
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=502/medium/skullllllssss_2_.JPG
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=502/medium/skullllllssss_3_.JPG

[necrocanis]

:headbang2 nice skull, little nasty looking though. You should think about giving it a peroxide bath. That will whiten it, and kill any germs. you should leave it for about 3 or 4 days in peroxide. You can use the medical stuff they sell in any grocery store cheap. Be warned, it might fall into about 100 pieces, and need to be rearticulated. If you don't know how to do that then, you can allways ask me! :thumbsup:

[necrocanis]

not sure what species that would be from, looks similar to a kingfish skull though.
Willing to part with it?





I got some skulls and stuff, heres one of, well I am not to sure..ha you tell me...
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=502/medium/skullllllssss_1_.JPG
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=502/medium/skullllllssss_2_.JPG
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=502/medium/skullllllssss_3_.JPG

[T1KARMANN]

you cant eat a fish that has died in your tank how do you know what it has died from :eek:

if you kill it you can eat it

[necrocanis]

how big is the skull?

[necrocanis]

exactly, but I have heard of people doing it. I guess if you cook it at a high enough temp for long enough it might be ok. I would never eat one of the aquarium raised fish though. Seems like they might have high levels of toxins from being trapped in their little tanks.

[Fish_are_fishfood]

how big is the skull?

I think I will keep it, I would love to give it to ya but he is bad a$$ lookin....
MMM, its about like 4" ish from the tip of nose to the start of vertabrae, I have the rest of the vertabrae, same condition as the head, it just snapped off though...

[necrocanis]

consider cleaning it if you do. I am almost certain that is a kingfish now.

[nick]

i have to look for you


i have a freezer full of dead fish :(

of the top of my head for the larger specimens - 12in hoplias aimara, 8-9 water cow, 9in female gachua, 6in male gachua, various common cichlids, reticulated stingrays, clown knife fish, indonesian datnoids, widebar datnoids (both dats are between 3-5in 2 were doas still frozen in water), 3 large (8in?) galaxy bristlenose plecos that anthony brought in from the rio xingu for me but they kicked the bucket after a month, ropefish, at least 6 red hi fin wolfish (bad deal with shark aquarium- 1 doa and bad amonia burns on the rest of the fish resulting in death) all 5-8in

thats all i can remember off the top of my head but im sure theres alot more- now that i think it im sure i have a 7-8in saxaltills pike from a local aqualand member, the thing was stunted and deformed so i decided to put it down- it couldnt even compete for food- lots of small native fish (bass-blackbanded sunfish- bluespotted sunfish-bluegill- green sunfish)

ugh the list goes on- lots of bad memories too- one too many power outages/filter problems (il blame that on sand+impeller= trouble lol)

pm me if you need anything- i was just telling my dad i would clean it out

[loach43]

Doubt if I'll be eating any of my fish unless they are salmon, tuna or eel. For now.............flush. Big fish, leave em outside on the ground & some stray cat will happily take it away.

[Daniel Machado]

I used to flush or throw away most of my dead fishes... Some of them were preserved in formalin/alcohol (the rarest/ more unusual), some get buried in the garden. Nowadays, my dead fishes become catfish food. In THIS TOPIC (http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7741) you can see pics of this "procedure" (page #2).

Best regards.

Daniel.

[thamunsta]

if fish skeletons could swim and live in a tank id definately get a few

[necrocanis]

well, I haven't seen any swimming around too much, but I keep them anyways. It is cool to me to learn all that I can about cranial morphology, through fish anatomy. I'll try to post some pics of mine on here afterwhile so that all of you can see what I am talking about.

[blackbird]

I personally couldn't eat my dead fish. First because all of my fish have a personality and eating them would seem wrong. Second because at some point most of my fish have been medicated, if not for a specific disease then in a hospital tank. Most medications specifically say NOT FOR FOOD FISH. So the dead fish I have had have either been flushed or thrown in the garbage (depending on size).

[Tucc185]

Necrocanis, let me know what species you're most interested in. I work at an LFS, and I can get you deads of most any fish. BTW, do you have any skulls of Chaca spp. catfish? I bet those would be really interesting. PM me or post here, and I'd be glad to help.