the Japanese eat their koi
and use it for sushi?

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.

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.

I have problems eating chicken
NO way i would eat a koi fish

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.

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

not yummy. They don't eat pond koi. The breed a different type of carp for food.

ok thanks
i got the impressiion that they ate
their pond kois at random

carp fish ?

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.

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!

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.

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?

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

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.

I agree
but tell me if anyone tries some
u gotta be pretty hungry even to eat one of the deformed ones

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.

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

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.

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?