Never ate lionfish, but I've eaten many animals that swim and crawl in the ocean, so I have a pretty good idea what it'd taste like. It's definitely a white-meat fish, and likely comparable to sea robins. It probably wouldn't be bad at all.NevermindIgnoreMe said:
No, not Guinea pigs! Well, I'm willing to give it a try, too. It'd be just like eating a bunny, except not as cute.V1K said:There's not much to eat there. Guinea pig, on the other hand, if it really came to it...
Nutria is a large non-native water-dwelling rodent that lives throughout much of Louisiana, eastern Texas, and probably other places. Some of the Louisiana natives are known as Cajuns*, and many of them don't shy away from non-traditional protein sources (and yes, the ones that fed it to me were Cajuns).V1K said:
I actually stopped eating crayfish cause I accidentally brought some mamas with a bunch of babies on their bellies home and I felt so bad, I took them back but kept a couple babies. After watching my cute lil baby cray bumbling around his tank and growing up I don't know if I have the heart to eat them anymore. But they taste so good Q.QYellowGuppy said:
They're super invasive where I live—no native species located within 400+ kilometers, it's illegal to own any live ones, and as long as they end up dead there are no limits to how much you can catch. My kids love (eating) them!V1K said:
I've never been a fan. I don't dislike them, I just don't think they're good enough to justify that much work for that little bit of meat.Fae said:
Well, I personally find guinea pigs cuter than bunnies.goldface said:
Yes, I am. Hi.Rick bose said:
I was sad to see you die at the end of the movie man!goldface said:
I'm just a cheap knockoff of the original. Another unpopular opinion . . .Lebeeze said:
I wouldn't have thought about it, but it sort of makes sense. The first month of fish keeping I was very hyper, thinking about the tank and fish and plants all the time, getting ideas upon ideas, questions upon questions. I wasn't sleeping much, feeling tired 24/7, yet couldn't stop myself from researching something all the time. In my case all that emotional energy went into enthusiasm, but I could imagine that anxiety-prone person would channel some of it into anxiety, and the exhaustion wouldn't help either. Feeling intense enthusiasm is a bit like being drunk, so it makes sense that if you're emotionally stable you'll be all cheery and happy, but if you're not, all the bad stuff will surface. If I had to guess, you'll start feeling better when the novelty factor goes away, and that should happen quite soon, a person can only be excited for a limited time.kittenlover9876 said:
It depends on the fish, some are like my dear sweet old hens that would sit and have a beer with me and watch the sunset, and some are like the jerk roosters who tried to spur my toddlers' eyes out. There's pets and livestock and while I wept for my poor old guppy that recently passed (and she had a name- but every fry?), I didn't break my heart over it like my betta. It depends.BlueSable said:
People who judge others based on whether they like pineapple on their pizza still have some growing up to do. Change my mind.Mii said:
I have a dark background so my albino cardinal tetras stand out a bit more than the regular ones. I also think albino oscars are pretty.YellowGuppy said:
I LOVE the albino oscars! although the regular ones look nice too. Personally, I think lemon oscars are the prettiest of them all.Ghelfaire said:
Black and orange ones are the most beatiful to me, they look like demons from he ll with lava seeping through their skin, epic.Mii said:
I used to call them lava fish when I was a kid! .an I would still love an oscar or flowerhorn but I just don't have the money for a bigger tank + the food that thing would need with this whole covid thing happening.V1K said:
It's that fleshy color of pale pork chop for me (not actually white fish) that reminds me of 'pink' irises, which are an abomination in a mess of blue and yellow ones, but with the brown and terra cotta ones in a scape of brick and warm earth tones, can shine. I keep trying to look at the albinos as a fish that just hasn't been shone to advantage yet but I have yet to mentally devise a plan where albino corys wouldn't assault my aesthetics so thoroughly I'd flinch every time I looked at the tank lol. It's a good thought exercise thoughGhelfaire said:
*shown lol, darn acTsutey said:
Now you tell me after finally buying some wretched peas 'just to be safe' while my bettas and badises and tetras feast on daphnea like savages and never seem constipated in my life lol. (To be fair to myself I did hear this about the daphnea, but the incessant chanting about 'the pea' ensorcelled me, despite me thinking 'where in Thailand are they going to find a boiled pea? I am old enough to know most of my bad decisions are based on worrying, lol.)jkkgron2 said:
I hope you like peas, because it seems you'll be the one eating them . My fish love frozen peas. I tried giving my hillstream loaches zuccini and cucumber because that's what people give to bottom feaders, but they weren't interested. The barbs ate the zuccini, whereas cucumber didn't interest even those forever hungry beasts. Now peas, that's something the whole family can enjoy. Barbs, hillstreams, shrimp, snails, me – only my cat has no appreciation for them.Tsutey said:
I have the same UV sterilizer!!Tsutey said:
They look so good today, it's crazy, you'd never know a few days ago they were spotty little things. I was just grasping at straws (defying prominent youtubers is always nerve-wracking lol) but I am glad to see it. (Even my amanos were out this morning, I'm glad to see them!)NevermindIgnoreMe said:
I like peas, it's all good lolV1K said:
I'd love to see your list of sources as to which commercially available fish medications are scientifically proven to have a causative effect regarding an increased likelihood of developing cancer!NevermindIgnoreMe said:
Off the top of my head recalling toxic pharma ingredients, formalin (ich meds, I believe, some brands?) is pretty darn carcinogenic, but I have a crystal shrimp tank to plant, if you want a run down ingredient by ingredient, that's a project you are welcome to tackle, lol- I am just grateful the minimal approach is working- I didn't particularly want to stress the tank out with salt or heat, either.YellowGuppy said:
edit: If you just look up the active ingredients, you'll find plenty either proven to be carcinogenic or potentially carcinogenic.YellowGuppy said:
A lot of products have labels saying that their ingredients have been found to cause cancer in California, so I always figured that since I'm in Texas I don't have to worry about it.NevermindIgnoreMe said:
Lol I was thinking the same thing!JettsPapa said:
After California sprayed me, my toddler, two little league teams, and my pool with malathion in 1989 (why I left), I'm not really interested in their opinion about toxicity, but they get bonus points for trying lol, even if it's too little too late. I read labels more (and listen less to the same media authority figures that told us 'more doctors smoke Camels' and told our grandmothers to **** with Lysol, speaking of carcinogens. ).JettsPapa said:
They may have been right. I can still barely remember the doctor smoking a cigarette while he was examining me during an office visit.Tsutey said:
May I ask why you don't like them? Not saying it's bad to not like them, just curious.ahouseofscales said:My unpopular opinion: Domestic Betta splendens should never be kept in sorority tanks, no matter how big or well planted your tank is. They are solitary and aggressive fish by nature. Yes, even the females. Keeping them in a sorority only benefits us and it's stressful and damaging for the fish. It's simply unethical. Exception: female siblings that have been raised in the same tank together and never separated.
EDIT: Another one that I just thought of, I love bettas and gouramis, but I really don't like honey gouramis. Every time I ask a stocking question they get recommended to me even if I say I don't like them
You should get some honey gouramisahouseofscales said:My unpopular opinion: Domestic Betta splendens should never be kept in sorority tanks, no matter how big or well planted your tank is. They are solitary and aggressive fish by nature. Yes, even the females. Keeping them in a sorority only benefits us and it's stressful and damaging for the fish. It's simply unethical. Exception: female siblings that have been raised in the same tank together and never separated.
EDIT: Another one that I just thought of, I love bettas and gouramis, but I really don't like honey gouramis. Every time I ask a stocking question they get recommended to me even if I say I don't like them
For a long time I wondered what in the world was the big deal about Honey Gouramis because just about everyone seems to eventually recommend them for stocking regardless of the tank size:ahouseofscales said:EDIT: Another one that I just thought of, I love bettas and gouramis, but I really don't like honey gouramis. Every time I ask a stocking question they get recommended to me even if I say I don't like them
I've never kept honeys, aren't they supposed to be pretty easy to breed? I can see that aspect of them as part of the appeal.Kribensis27 said:
I believe so. I think the relatively subdued aggression level compared to other gouramis can make it easier. The fry are supposedly super slow growing though.mimo91088 said:
It's really stressful for the fish. Domestic bettas are solitary and aggressive. Good pet owners put the needs of their animals first above all else in my opinion, and we aren't doing that when we force a solitary species together just because we like how it looks or its convenient for us.TheFISH12 said:
I'm sure they're great, I just honestly don't really like their coloration! I prefer dwarf gouramis or the wild coloration of thick-lips.Leeman75 said:
Lol I was asking why you didn't like Honey Gouramis but you answered it anyways so it's fine.ahouseofscales said:
