Eating aquarium fish
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Not exactly an example of what I ate but at my LFS someone brought a Pacu in that had gotten too big for their tank. They brought it to the LFS as if ownership of a fish is something like renting it until you don't want it. Be that as it may a young guy came in, asked a few questions about the Pacu and left. He came back later and bought it.
He stopped back into the LFS a couple weeks later and while looking through the tanks one of the shop guys asked him 'hey, how's that big Pacu working out'?
And the young guy said "it was delicious".
I ate a handful of crickets a couple weeks ago. I also rode a motorcycle from Santiago, Chile to Ushuaia, Tiera del Fuego, Argentina and then back up to Cartagena, Columbia. On that trip I ate whatever the locals caught out of local waters and a couple of fish meals had a curiously familiar appearance but I have no idea what they were. Sidetrack / off.
He stopped back into the LFS a couple weeks later and while looking through the tanks one of the shop guys asked him 'hey, how's that big Pacu working out'?
And the young guy said "it was delicious".
I ate a handful of crickets a couple weeks ago. I also rode a motorcycle from Santiago, Chile to Ushuaia, Tiera del Fuego, Argentina and then back up to Cartagena, Columbia. On that trip I ate whatever the locals caught out of local waters and a couple of fish meals had a curiously familiar appearance but I have no idea what they were. Sidetrack / off.
I have not eaten any in a while
When I was trying to combine cichlids that really shouldn't be combined, I'd end up with one or the other very torn up, and the only humane thing to do, was put it out of its misery, and......
Eating them seemed less wasteful than just burying them in the garden, over time I ate everything from JDs, to Petenia, to Vieja (I was kind of dense about unadvised combinations).
Of course here in Panama, we eat P-bass, Black belts, and Tilapia all the time.
But since I learned "the hard way", that most Central American cichlids don't belong in the same tank with other cichlids, and stopped combining them, and the carnage that led to them to the pan, has stopped.
Above P-bass (invassives) from Lake Gatun.
Below Tilapia, from a now defunct fish farm in Milwaukee.
When I was trying to combine cichlids that really shouldn't be combined, I'd end up with one or the other very torn up, and the only humane thing to do, was put it out of its misery, and......
Eating them seemed less wasteful than just burying them in the garden, over time I ate everything from JDs, to Petenia, to Vieja (I was kind of dense about unadvised combinations).
Of course here in Panama, we eat P-bass, Black belts, and Tilapia all the time.
But since I learned "the hard way", that most Central American cichlids don't belong in the same tank with other cichlids, and stopped combining them, and the carnage that led to them to the pan, has stopped.
Above P-bass (invassives) from Lake Gatun.
Below Tilapia, from a now defunct fish farm in Milwaukee.