Nothing instead, its my well. Actually I have two, one surface hand dug, and my drilled well. I had to look up chloramine, I was only familiar with chlorine which you could let sit and would not be a problem.
Can you eat your fish?
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I would NEVER EVER eat any of my pet fish. It is to inhumane and very cruel. Just think of it this way, would you like it if some huge 7-8' fish ate you or your wife or kids?? You have to think as pets as humans.
Cichla dude;4249120; said:
I don't think it is inhumane or cruel at all. I wouldn't do it personally, but both of those words are very extreme concepts in such a situation. It isn't as if we are talking about netting your fish and biting its head off. Fish can be painlessly euthanized.
Why would you eat a fish you know and love as your pet. Go catch a fish that you don't know personally. That way, you're eating a stranger. 
wow lol. After its dead its dead. I have eaten a couple fish that died but filleted and cooked 'em with lemon and butter sauce. If a fish dies its used as fertilizer and if I know it died in the same day I eat it. But I still feel a little weird eating a pet lol. But I prefer to eat what I catch my self.
Umm, okay. Animals are people too, eh guy? But you do realize that strict vegetarians suffer deficiencies and metabolic problems as they age, right? I mean we do need to to eat some meat sometimes. And a fish in the river is just as alive as a fish in your tank, so why get antsy about which one dies for us? When you catch yourself using words like "never" and "have to", always consider that somebody will disagree. Like when I say nobody should ever be executed, it's going to get reactions.
Cichla dude;4249120; said:
If you look into the perspective that you're feeding your fish other fish (either in the form of whole fish, fish pieces, or fish kibble), it doesn't make much sense to think that way. In that way it'd be cruel to keep any pet that eats other animals... but since this is a MONSTER fish keeping site I assume that most people's fish are carnivorous.
Of course I wouldn't prefer to be eaten by a giant fish... but the fish you feed to your fish would prefer to not be eaten, I'm sure.
knifegill;4249291; said:
Well, that's not actually true, though. Vegans need supplementation (vitamin b12), but vegetarians can get everything they need from plant sources + eggs and/or milk.
Gosh, I wouldn't even know where to find it. I read a seemingly good article that covered digestive enzymes, plant proteins and some aspect of a certain form of nutrient that seemed to be linked with specific chronic disorders.
It was compared to the purine thing. Too much animal purine can cause gout but you can overdose on plant purines all day and never see a uric acid crystal anywhere. It might have been a different molecular form of B12 for all I remember. It's absence was linked to some neurological disorders and there were actual valid studies quoted. The article wasn't pro or anti anything, and even concluded with a dietary recommendation of a mostly vegetarian diet with some whole fish once or twice a week, preferably including the neural cord and other nerve tissues. It was totally about the nerve cells.
