You are kidding right?

 

:icon_eek:

 

really they are not much different than any shrimp you see at the store. They do turn red when cooked and look/ taste a bit like smaller Kawaebi.

 

Lol!!

 

lmao i always wondered and now i know

 

Lol......awsome

 

I must try this immediately lol!

 

Ghost shrimp, it's what's for dinner:

Not actually ghost shrimp, but these tiny dried shrimp look remarkably similar. They sell them for seasoning gumbo and jambalaya around here. The thought of just using ghost shrimp has crossed my mind. And also raising my own water onions and chestnuts...

I wouldn't make it a habit of eating stuff from just any aquarium though. There's some chemicals and medications we sometimes use that aren't meant for use on food livestock.

But one of these days I might put some grape juice in a DIY CO2 reactor. :hihi:

 

I think there was a thread a while back about eating aquarium shrimp. They look really tasty to me; especially those pretty Sulawesis:hihi:

Did you peel the shells with a toothpick?

I grew up in Louisiana, and remember these were sold in stores everywhere. Are you sure they're not ghost shrimp?

 

did you cook them in tap water? Tap water can be harmful to freshwater fish and inverts LOL

I wonder what they taste like tossed in with some ramen!

 

they do sell them as feeders

next time try frying them after a coating on panko

 

word of caution fresh water inverts can carry a higher precentage of human contratactable parasites than saltwater inverts(liver and lung flukes, ect)
so if you do eat fresh water crustacens please make sure to cook them thuroly.

 

Mate thats awesome, respect.

 

People in SEA eat them live on salads
they call them jumping shrimp

 

Well kinda that's kinda sad

 

Pictures or it never happened. j/k :hihi:

 

they are actually pretty good

At least the ones at the beach. Idk about fw ones

 

make sure you treat the cooking water with prime before you cook the shrimp and for god's sake don't use a copper pot. Copper is, as you know, toxic to inverts

 

haha well all i did was wash them thoroughly, stick them in the fridge, than the frying pan with some salt.

You guys might think im crazy but its no different than eating shrimp you buy at the market.

 

no one thinks your crazy, its just out of the norm and harder to accept

should of snapped pics, also when you cooked them didnt they reduce in size by 25%

how small were they

 

yes size was roughly reduce by 15-20 percent, had a slight shrimpy smell but not a fishy smell. I would snap pics next time i do this, not sure when... dont really want to get out of my way and buy more ghost shrimp just to eat lol..

 

There's a small lake at the local university here. I was told by someone at the veterinary school that you can sink a plastic bin, then put an opened can of dog food in it. An hour or two later pull out the bin, and it will be full of ghost shrimp. Repeat as needed. Might come in handy if someone needed a bunch of feeders.

But I wouldn't be surprised if someone caught a bunch to eat them. Cajuns are known for eating anything. I've got a cookbook with recipes for gator, nutria, armadillo, possum, etc. :hihi: (I've eaten three of those four myself.)

 

LOL This thread reminds me of what my girlfriend mentioned to me the other day when we had -28 degree weather and snow had closed the city down.

"at least if you get snowed in with no food you have enough fish in your apartment to feed you for a week"

 

When I went to a field trip to a salt marsh when I was younger, we caught these tiny shrimps that looked like ghost shrimp and the guides said we could eat them. Good eating . I wouldn't eat anything raw from fresh water though because of parasites.

 

I won't eat any organ meat, any strange animals or any meat that hasn't been cooked until it chars. I call it Irish Kosher.

 

HA! Define strange animals? I'd eat ghost shrimp if they were raised for human consumption, but then again I've had horse, yak, ostrich, frog, snails, etc. Meat is meat...

 

With most of the ghost shrimp on the market coming from the southern US I'd be very surprised if people down there didn't eat them all the time. I fried up my friend's 12 yo oscar, made stew out of another friend's rabbit, and have eaten grilled cat so I'm totally cool with eating ghost shrimp. When I bred apple snails this guy wanted to buy a bunch to eat. I turned him down though because my snails had immaculate shells and it would be a shame to eat them. I gave him the number of another snail breeder whose snails always looked like crap. lol

 

I immediately thought of the Animal Planet's "Monsters Inside Me" program...

 

We get many ghost shrimps in local rivers...and many peoples eat them...i eat them too...but you need to catch many of them to understand what you're eating...But never ate those in my pond or tanks. I keep them to feed my fish...my cichlids love them! and to clean my tanks...

Have a look at the shrimps in my 33g planted tank thread. Do you have the same ghost shrimps in US?

 

no what i ate was american glass/ghost shrimp. They look like this

they are from the Palaemonoidea family which includes prawns and commercial shrimp.

the one that you are talking about are from Atyidae family which include cherry shrimp, Amano and Crystal red.

since their diet is different, im sure they taste differently. I fed mine bloodworms.