Why not stock an aquarium of fish in your kitchen for eating?

I like seafood, but I already have a full-time job.

Funny, this occurred to me in response to another Fluther question

And sure enough, it’s been done: http://tilapiafarmingathome.com/

Thats a huge operation at the link…jaytkay…I wonder if scaling it down to say a 50 gallon aquarium would do the trick for a big yield?

:( Tuna, Salmon, Trout or Bass- none of them would make it unless I owned a huge place.

Too much work for my taste. Tomatoes I’ll do. Things that require daily feeding and weekly water-changes, not so much. Then on top of that it’s catching, killing, boning, cleaning…. Yuck. Definitely not worth giving up the $5/lb grocery store price and convenience.

Yes, it is feasible…if your kitchen or house is large enough. You’d probably have better luck outdoors, depending upon the amount of land owned. Either way, it’s costly and time-consuming.

@Ltryptophan My BIL kept a 50 gallon aquarium in the kitchen/dining area for tropical fish. Even if he stocked it with larger fish, it would only work for a meal or two.

@Ltryptophan I couldn’t Google up a small-tank solution.

You can be the Henry Ford of kitchen fish farms!

Wow..you’re really on a creative role…maybe you can teach your fish to ride bicycles too. hahaha

You could have your own circus…why stop now…lol

It’s quite common in Japan to keep aquaria in restaurants.

The amount of fish I eat, I’d have to buy new stock for the aquarium every other week. It’s probably cheaper to buy dead fish than live ones.

And you would think it’d be cheaper to raise 5–6 fishes for a year or more, then buy a fish whenever you feel like it? Plus there is a risk for the fishes to die, get sick, plus you have to clean the aquarium sometimes, take care of them… It’s just too much fuss for a fish for dinner if you ask me.

Salmon and lobster if I had the time and expense. Not to mention the room.

I was at Red Lobster once with my kids who were only, maybe, 6 and 4. They have a fish tank of lobsters out front. Well, another parent was there with a child about four years old, and this kid was asking questions 90 miles a minute! You could tell the parent was ready for anything, because the kid says, “Mommy! Why do some of the lobsters have red rubber bands on their claws, and some have blue????” Without missing a beat Mom said, “Because some are girl lobsters and some are boys.” I rolled! YES!!”

I hope to one day have a house that is like a living building, with as much edible vegetation as possible. Maybe raising fish would be a good thing to do in a place like that.

I love watching fish swim, and I hate eating fish. It wouldn’t work for me, but it sounds like a great idea. When I did have an aquarium, it was an awful lot of work, and all my fish ate each other, or just up and died on their own.

@zophu You might enjoy reading Animal, Vegetable, and Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver.

Doesnt really seem feasible. Id go with lobsters if anything. Really easy to care for too.

@YARNLADY aquariums really arent that much work at all if you know what you’re doing and do your research to prevent them from eating each other…..

Sanitation…. that’s why not

@UScitizen can we elaborate on that? I would go as far as to say fish raised in ones home would be much cleaner/healthier than farm raised fish.

@Pied_Pfeffer Thanks, I’ll look that up now.