CAN I EAT MY CICHLID FISH?
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.DUDE THERE ARE PLENTY OF GREAT ADVICE HERE!! YOU ASKED FOR ADVICE AND YOU GOT IT SO LISTEN!!!!!! OI ppl these days just dont wanna get things through there head.........
You might as well just eat fish food. Spirulina flakes with milk should be good!
But seriously, you know what you feed your fish to raise them and what chemicals you put in the water... do you really wanna eat flakes?
But seriously, you know what you feed your fish to raise them and what chemicals you put in the water... do you really wanna eat flakes?
i would never in my life time think about eating any of my pets...... if you have kids why dont you eat them??? wow how pethitic are ppl these days?!?!?
i study toxicology. a good deal, if not the majority of the chemicals put in an aquarium bioconcentrate, bioaccumulate, and biotransform. Basically, this means you put a chemical in your water, it undergoes changes to its structure through reactions with microbes/bacteria, which can make it more toxic. Your fish uptake not only the original chemical, but now the new one that may potentially be more toxic to humans now. Over months and through the years, the chemicals going into a tank and accumulated in the fish. It may not be harmful to them, but their tissues may be packed with metabolites of the chemicals. Lastly, many toxic chemicals bioconcentrate, meaning their toxicity goes up as it moves up the food chain. So, by treating your water, first the bacteria metabolize it, then the fish (now more toxic to the fish), and then if a human eats the aquarium fish you are receiving an exposure that could potentially be very high.
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not likely to be fatal but definitely has the scientific basis to be. depending on how old your fish are, how often and dosage of chemicals, water quality and filtration, your dose of toxic chemicals and metabolites could be low or extremely high.
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if you eat your own home raised aquarium fish, you are sick, bottom line.
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not likely to be fatal but definitely has the scientific basis to be. depending on how old your fish are, how often and dosage of chemicals, water quality and filtration, your dose of toxic chemicals and metabolites could be low or extremely high.
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if you eat your own home raised aquarium fish, you are sick, bottom line.
This has to be one of the dumbiest threads I've read in the 4 years I've been on fish forums. Eating your pet fish because times are hard lol. If you don't want them sell them if you eat them that's one meal if you sell them you can get many meals. Do you have a dog or cat or have you already ate them.
