Regular Member slipperylittlesucker Posted November 26, 2003 Regular Member Share Posted November 26, 2003 the Japanese eat their koi and use it for sushi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Lynn Posted November 26, 2003 Regular Member Share Posted November 26, 2003 I don't know if it is true or not, I heard that they let thier guest pick which one or they get thier best one and serve it the guest. Remember I don't know if that is true or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member jetman73 Posted November 26, 2003 Regular Member Share Posted November 26, 2003 The japanese raise an ancient form of koi called a magoi that they use for food purposes. Remember all koi are just basically carp but the colored varieties we see today are not used for food. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Black oranda Posted November 26, 2003 Regular Member Share Posted November 26, 2003 I have problems eating chicken NO way i would eat a koi fish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shiari Posted November 26, 2003 Share Posted November 26, 2003 actual koi are far too expensive to eat. they do raise an ordinary form of carp for food, one that while related to koi, isn't a koi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member slipperylittlesucker Posted November 27, 2003 Author Regular Member Share Posted November 27, 2003 the thought of taking a koi out of your pond and eating it makes me sick when my cousin told me this i was in disbelieve but for them it must be i guess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shiari Posted November 27, 2003 Share Posted November 27, 2003 not yummy. They don't eat pond koi. The breed a different type of carp for food. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member slipperylittlesucker Posted November 27, 2003 Author Regular Member Share Posted November 27, 2003 ok thanks i got the impressiion that they ate their pond kois at random Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Black oranda Posted November 29, 2003 Regular Member Share Posted November 29, 2003 carp fish ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shiari Posted November 29, 2003 Share Posted November 29, 2003 both Koi and Goldfish are a type of carp. Koi developed out of the river carp that would swim into the rice paddies. The Japanese often used them for food, but sometimes one of them would have a splash of color aside from the normal dull brown. The farmers, thinking these fish pretty, would leave them alone. So the genes that produced such colors became advantageous to have, and mutations in the color genes led to the Koi we know today. I am unsure about how goldfish came about, but I know they're from china. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member slipperylittlesucker Posted November 30, 2003 Author Regular Member Share Posted November 30, 2003 so its sought of like selective breeding more or less with the desired characteristics being breed eventually creating new subspecies but i wonder if they will be able to breed with wild carp? studying biology finally does pays off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shiari Posted November 30, 2003 Share Posted November 30, 2003 They would be able to breed with the species they came from, especially if they could breed with an asian long-finned carp (became butterly "koi"), and goldfish (ugly ugly offspring). It's like dogs and wolves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member slipperylittlesucker Posted November 30, 2003 Author Regular Member Share Posted November 30, 2003 so they evolved over time hey but it'll be kinda hard to get new varieties now its really only luck?? the goldfish must of been very different offspring there scales feel kinda different so how did that come about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Lovely_Goldfish Posted December 2, 2003 Regular Member Share Posted December 2, 2003 hypothethically speaking, would a koi taste bad? like say you do want to eat a koi, I know not to eat the colorful ones but what if you had a dull gray, black or white one or one deformed, perhaps bent spine and your hungry plus wanna experment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shiari Posted December 2, 2003 Share Posted December 2, 2003 I think it would be cruel, but I don't think it would taste *bad*, perse. But I would never eat an animal that was in my care, unless that was the original purpose for me acquiring it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member slipperylittlesucker Posted December 5, 2003 Author Regular Member Share Posted December 5, 2003 I agree but tell me if anyone tries some u gotta be pretty hungry even to eat one of the deformed ones Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member my nemo Posted December 5, 2003 Regular Member Share Posted December 5, 2003 If you ever ate out in a fancy Chinese Resuturant and ordered fish they let you pick out the fish that you want to eat. They bring you right to the tank, you point at what fish you want, they net it in front of you and they kill it right there.(NO they are not koi though) Gross HUH???!!! They also do that at oriental markets. I always cringe when I see that happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member slipperylittlesucker Posted December 8, 2003 Author Regular Member Share Posted December 8, 2003 yeah i actually saw that happen when someone ordered a fish they knocked it out cold with one end of the knife and it was like see ya later from there on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member jsrtist Posted December 9, 2003 Regular Member Share Posted December 9, 2003 First off, I dont find black or white fish ugly in any way!! Secondly, no it is absolutely not safe to eat any fish that has been a pet. If you ever read the backs of your medication bottles or anything it says, "Not for fish intended for human consumption." They have been treated with so many chemicals and medications that it would be very dangerous to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member slipperylittlesucker Posted December 11, 2003 Author Regular Member Share Posted December 11, 2003 i was also thinking about the medication being toxic but i was wondering why it is toxic the medication i have seem to consist of indicators like malchite green which i guess wouldnt do much harm is it just a precautionary warning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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