the hell is this
- Thread starter Hybridfish7
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Allegedly feral cichlids from tanks taste horrible, not worth killing and eating something you're going to throw up.
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I've eaten many tank/farm raised and wild cichlids, and they taste fine (from managuense to P-bass to Tilapia).
I have a couple friends that consider cichlids, the only fresh water fish they will eat.
Here in Panama inland, cichlids like black belts, and even feral oscars are an every day meal.
I have a couple friends that consider cichlids, the only fresh water fish they will eat.
Here in Panama inland, cichlids like black belts, and even feral oscars are an every day meal.
That's probably where the "alleged" poor eating qualities of tank-raised cichlids come from. Wake up in the morning, find a semi-dried-up dead fish on the floor that likely jumped out and died the previous evening, and fry 'em right up!
Sounds like the jokers who shoot a big deer in the evening, throw it into the truck (sometimes without even field-dressing!), head out to the bar and maybe a couple of buddies' places for some beers and some stories about their hunting prowess, wake up late and hung-over the next day, finally get around to finishing the cleaning/skinning of the carcass...and then whine about how it tastes "gamy".
Seriously...are you actually recommending eating "road-kill" fish? Yeah, I heard
duanes
...he said they taste good, not that they should be scavenged like a hyena would do it, i.e. finding a dead fish and scarfing it up. 
Too bad about the fish, though; that's one of the most disappointing ways to lose one.
Sounds like the jokers who shoot a big deer in the evening, throw it into the truck (sometimes without even field-dressing!), head out to the bar and maybe a couple of buddies' places for some beers and some stories about their hunting prowess, wake up late and hung-over the next day, finally get around to finishing the cleaning/skinning of the carcass...and then whine about how it tastes "gamy".
Seriously...are you actually recommending eating "road-kill" fish? Yeah, I heard
duanes
...he said they taste good, not that they should be scavenged like a hyena would do it, i.e. finding a dead fish and scarfing it up. Too bad about the fish, though; that's one of the most disappointing ways to lose one.
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no good deed goes unpunished ?…dang, can’t believe she flopped out
On one occasion I had a large JD get half its face ripped off by another cichlid, it was still alive, but not long for this world.
I pulled it out, and fried it up, nice appetizer.
Below P-bass being fried up after the annual P-bass jamboree here on Lake Gatun.
and not to single cichlids out, a small grocery in Colombia.(last attachment on the bottom)
many times fishermen clean their riverine catch off shore, and give the buzzards a treat
nothing is ever wasted here, even the geckos that drop dead over night
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I pulled it out, and fried it up, nice appetizer.
Below P-bass being fried up after the annual P-bass jamboree here on Lake Gatun.
and not to single cichlids out, a small grocery in Colombia.(last attachment on the bottom)
many times fishermen clean their riverine catch off shore, and give the buzzards a treat
nothing is ever wasted here, even the geckos that drop dead over night
View attachment 2A8D6262-3772-4C2B-BE0E-73278431178B.jpeg
So you say a buddy caught some of them too? I wonder if / it looks like someone tossed out the fry from a hybrid spawn of whatever CA’s they were keeping and a handful grew to that size…
