Went to the asian food store today...

[Alistriwen]

.. and came home with a few questions and comments hehe.

Firstly, I found some big jars of really cheap "shrimp fry". It's a bunch of really small shrimp in a jar with a lot of salt and erythodyzyne or something like that for colouring I believe. If I rinse it first is it ok to feed my fish? If not, I also saw some dried shrimp that were pretty small, would that be safe and have some nutritional value? THis stuff was so much cheaper than what you get at the lfs I had to ask.

I also saw a whole bunch of barramundi and tilapia for sale @ 3 or 4 dollars a pop, big suckers too and I thought of this site .

 

[AttackFish]

If I were you, I would just go to like, Safeway or whatever and get market shrimp.
much safer.

 

[Cichlidgirl91]

I'm not sure of the effect of salt on fish. If you can find un-salted shrimp that would probably be better.

 

[KABB44423]

give it to a gold fish and see what happens

 

[AttackFish]

I'm not sure of the effect of salt on fish. If you can find un-salted shrimp that would probably be better.

Well, it could cause sodium poisoning in the liver if they body cannot handle the high salt content. This happens with humans, and just about any other animal.

So, I would look for unsalted market shrimp.
A pound of market shrimp is pretty cheap, and you wont have to worry about sodium poisoning.

 

[Alistriwen]

When you say market shrimp you mean the regular medium shrimp you use to cook? If so the problem is that it's too big for most of my fish and Im not looking to get into blending it all up . The reason I was into this stuff was because it was small enough to feed to all my fish.

 

[brcacti]

Those types of markets usually have frozen fish cheap pollack fish and squid with and without the head, prefer without myself will try both of these on my fish and beef liver frozen when bigger. For my small fish soon to have will buy frozen brine shrimp in the BIG size and give daily.

 

[AttackFish]

When you say market shrimp you mean the regular medium shrimp you use to cook? If so the problem is that it's too big for most of my fish and Im not looking to get into blending it all up . The reason I was into this stuff was because it was small enough to feed to all my fish.

You can get "cocktail shrimp" wich are much smaller.
About 1''
SUPER CHEAP aswell.

 

[fabalust]

yeah i dont think its a good idea to feed your fish that kind of food.
but if you want to try yeah try giving it to a gold fish.

 

[cassharper]

stop telling him to give it to a goldfish, they are still fish. I though we were in this to humanely care for fish, not just the cool looking, big, or expensive ones.

You will find some crazy stuff (to the American pallet at least) in these places. They sell trichogaster trichopterus at a local asian food market (full grown and the blues ones... like mine...), they also have different kind of eels commonly kept in aquariums.