Your thoughts on feeding hot dogs to large catfish?!

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I've read lots of things on catfish particularly red tailed catfish and I stumbled across a few sites saying that the owner whoever it may be fed his catfish hotdogs one of these web sites had a dark blue background and the author of the page said he fed his red tail while hotdogs as a staple diet I would think this would be very bad for the digestive system of the catfish but then again I am no expert so have you guys done this ?what are your thoughts on the subject? do you agree or disagree on the topic and why ?


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I haven't done it but I wouldn't. A steady diet of hotdogs aren't good for anyone, fish or people!
 
Bad. It's been well established that mammal meat isn't the best food for the vast majority of fish. It stands to reason that the left over, less healthy even for mammals mammal meat that is found in hot dogs wouldn't be good for fish, either.
 
As a staple diet, as everyone else says, is no good. I use them as a rare treat - maybe once a month if even that, for one of my Wels.
 
I feed turkey franks as a staple to my 24-36" cats and some are around 8 yrs old. Every mfk ive ever met also feeds dogs so im not sure where the nay sayers r coming from. My 1700 pool can eat 3 packs of turkey franks in under a minute :). In addition to this "staple" food i feed other prepared foods soaked in vitamens, live/dead fish, and also wild caught bluegill which is also frowned apon. There is really no other food that will fill up a 24-36" fish on a budget lol... pellets only go so far The point is to mix it up food wise, exclusively feeding only one type of anything is bad.
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Well known that predatory fish eat birds...turkey franks are affordable, clean, and are not nearly as bad as beef or pork.
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wednesday13 said:
I feed turkey franks as a staple to my 24-36" cats and some are around 8 yrs old. Every mfk ive ever met also feeds dogs so im not sure where the nay sayers r coming from. My 1700 pool can eat 3 packs of turkey franks in under a minute :). In addition to this "staple" food i feed other prepared foods soaked in vitamens, live/dead fish, and also wild caught bluegill which is also frowned apon. There is really no other food that will fill up a 24-36" fish on a budget lol... pellets only go so far The point is to mix it up food wise, exclusively feeding only one type of anything is bad.
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What do people have against bluegill? Sunfish don't contain thiaminase, so I can't imagine what the complaint would be.
 
Good question.Ive never heard of that one.
 
Read many a debate about feeding wild caught fish...its the disease factor which is always a risk. I too worry and dont do it often but ive fed turkey franks for a good 10yrs with no ill effects. Theres a pic of "anythingfish" holding a pac of dogs to feed his 8,000 on here somewhere lol...its just very very unrealistic and too expensive to feed 24-36"+ fish a staple diet of "market fish/shrimp". Chix, (friendly ? Lol) when ur tigers can eat an entire bag of shrimp/filets in one daily feeding and there only half full, whats left to give them?

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