Cooking a fish from your aquarium

jjohnwm

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Ah, yes...so many cats...so few recipes...
 

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How about all the medications, dechlorinators, etc that are used while raising aquarium fish? Don’t those have the potential to build up in the tissues of aquarium fish or am I being paranoid? Regardless, I won’t eat them
 

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I am a snob about my eatin' fish, don't even like eating farm raised salmon. But I suppose if I was starving I could fix up some loach kebab lol.
Loaches (weather loaches, at any rate) don't taste particularly good, lol. Flavour's a bit muddy, and texture isn't terrible but not worth mentioning. Bones are kinda annoying.
Clown loaches might taste better; I'm not sure.

I do wonder whether farm-raised fish, that are sometimes reared in far worse conditions than an aquarium, would be considered more or less favourable to eat than an aquarium-raised fish.
 

jjohnwm

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Loaches (weather loaches, at any rate) don't taste particularly good, lol. Flavour's a bit muddy, and texture isn't terrible but not worth mentioning. Bones are kinda annoying.
Clown loaches might taste better; I'm not sure.

I do wonder whether farm-raised fish, that are sometimes reared in far worse conditions than an aquarium, would be considered more or less favourable to eat than an aquarium-raised fish.
Clown Loaches are actually pretty good; flavour very similar to an Asian Arowana, but texture much more like a ray or discus. Watch out for the spines.

They are best prepared just like African Tigerfish. :)
 

esoxlucius

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Clown loaches might taste better
Well, this threads taken a worrying turn!! Eating clown loach!!! Jesus, Mary and Joseph, the inmates really have escaped the asylum this time.

The years of time and effort it would take to raise a clown loach to a decent size, only to kill it for the table!!!

Honestly, I'd rather eat my kids!
 

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Clown Loaches are actually pretty good; flavour very similar to an Asian Arowana, but texture much more like a ray or discus. Watch out for the spines.

They are best prepared just like African Tigerfish. :)
Coelacanth meat is much better, though it must be said that the flesh of the wild caught variety is much more flavoursome than those mass bred farmed ones, lol.
 
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