what is this fish
- Thread starter Shad27
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I know you do but that wasn't what I was trying to say lol......I ment personally I would feel weird housing delicacy fish like that ....
Lol now since I've did more research I see that it's not fresh water so that's out the picture but I still.think it's look Is cool
Most of the fish we keep, are human food somewhere.
Here in Central America where I live, cichids are every day fare, all the Vieja types, peacock bass, and Parachromis are consumed by humans regularely.
When I was in Viet Nam, you could find baskets of small and large gouramis, barbs, and iridescent sharks in the market.
That said, most mangrove snappers need to move to salt water as they grow, so if you have the means to make those transitions, and a large enough tank, you'll be good.
They can start out in fresh, but under normal circumstances move to brackish, and then to far out into the ocean as adults.
When they don't, they tend to be subject to many stress born illnesses.
Here in Central America where I live, cichids are every day fare, all the Vieja types, peacock bass, and Parachromis are consumed by humans regularely.
When I was in Viet Nam, you could find baskets of small and large gouramis, barbs, and iridescent sharks in the market.
That said, most mangrove snappers need to move to salt water as they grow, so if you have the means to make those transitions, and a large enough tank, you'll be good.
They can start out in fresh, but under normal circumstances move to brackish, and then to far out into the ocean as adults.
When they don't, they tend to be subject to many stress born illnesses.
That's is true....I couldn't imarine having to eat filthy catfish or boney piranhas like some villages in South America......hell tuna is pretty much the only fish I'll eat and I like it with rice and mayo .....and some lemon pepper lol
if I remember Wes did get some in that were isolated to freshwater. They didn't require brackish or full salt. Maybe I'm thinking of the polyurandon.
Anytime you eat swai in a restaurant, your eating an iridescent shark (many times its the white fish in generically named fried fish), and anytime you're eating Tilapia, you're eating cichlids.
I eat my fish from my tanks quite often, if one gets some kind of eye scrape of something similar, and its compromised and big enough, I eat it. Figure that's better than wasting it into the garbage
I eat my fish from my tanks quite often, if one gets some kind of eye scrape of something similar, and its compromised and big enough, I eat it. Figure that's better than wasting it into the garbage
I almost baught one it was on craigstlist here for months. They juast wanted to much for it.
I have caught numerous in coastal waters, in reef, docks, pilings, marinas as well as in mangrove swamps, but nothing ever above the 18"-mark, so that would kinda go hand in hand with what was just stated. I knew they were a SW fish and lived all throughout the Mississippi drainage/delta and deep into the Everglades, but I never pegged them for FULL FW even for part of their lives.
Not all catfish is filthy...true they are bottomfeeders, but if you get them from a limestone stream or a similarly very clean source, I'm sure you'd be surprised how delicate the meat is. You actually run a higher risk eating Tuna and other keystone predators than smaller to medium sized catfish
Just a LITTLE difference between those 2 animals, Bro LOL!
.....and wash it down with a big glass of tank water spiked with a shot of stingray venom????
+1. Catfish should actually be termed "bottom dweller" not "bottom feeders" since they are more predatory than they are scavengers
