Catfish skin fish food

[Rtc/tsn]

Hey I just got done filleting a good maybe 20 inch catfish and wondering what would happen if I fed the skin of a channel catfish to my aquarium fish???? Any nutritional value or anything just curious

 

[Kelly_Aquatics]

I doubt it. if you did I would boil it but I see no reason to feed them it.

 

[Rtc/tsn]

I doubt it. if you did I would boil it but I see no reason to feed them it.

Yea I really don’t know if there’s any point in doing it but I was skinning the fillets and thought, I wonder if my fish would like this, it’d be a bit tuff though

 

[Kelly_Aquatics]

Rtc/tsn what does the river look like that you caught them out of? feeding it raw would be a bad idea because catfish slime is full of bacteria and I would be worried about external parasites

 

[Rtc/tsn]

Rtc/tsn what does the river look like that you caught them out of? feeding it raw would be a bad idea because catfish slime is full of bacteria and I would be worried about external parasites

I catch them at a lake a few minutes away, the water is fairly clean I’ve never seen or heard of anything catfish a sick or damaged fish but it’s also from a reservoir

 

[Itsadeepbluesea]

I imagine you could, but I suspect the nutritional value would not be the greatest

 

[Krismo962]

Isn't catfish very oily? Make sure you have good surface agitation or it'll form an oil film on the surface

 

[Niki_up]

Why not dry it out and give it to your dog as a chew treat

 

[Niki_up]

Why not dry it out and give it to your dog as a chew treat

Sorry I just assumed you had a dog ???

hopefully you do lol

 

[ichthyogeek]

I've heard fish skin can be crispy and tasty, but have no idea about catfish skin. THoughts on tossing it in a pan full of hot oil? You could score it to make it slightly less tough. I might wash it and rub it with salt to remove the slime though...