Sutchi fillet fats

Hi guys,

Recently I have changed my feeding to my fishes to fully sutchi fillet diet. Upon preparing the fillet, realized the fish having a lot of thick white fats (like lard). Trimmed away some of them and cut to size to feed my fishes.

However, realized the water in the tank will form a layer of oil on the surface. My 6ft tank has overflow and under flow system so still not so bad, managed to capture the oil in my sump which they formed to a whitish sludge like substances on my wool.

Question is I have another 4ft tank with OHF. The layer of oil on the surface can't be removed by my submerged pump. Any idea how to remove the oil?

Is sutchi fillet healthy for the fishes in the long run since they are so fattening?

Also saw from a thread somewhere that sutchi fillet are all from Vietnam, which many were rear from not so clean waters... So still safe for us and our fishes to eat?

Advises appreciated.

Cheers

[shiokmc]

Eeeee.....

Viet fish......


U wouldnt wanna feed ur fish that.... When u see the River n fish caught out....

[sALmoN@home]

I had the same problem as you so I stopped feeding sutchi. Im now using other fish meats like kunning and tamban.

[leoshawn83]

Hi Bro,

You might want to try to add an surface skimmer with a cannister and output that to your OHF.
Else external pump with Skimmer and output to ohf will work as well. dymax quite cheap.

[Hershley]

i also have changed back to MP and feed shark meat instead of sutchi fillet.

[Censis]

I feed sutchi for the past one month.. Agree with you that it's oily, when you touch the fish you can feel already. But did not observe any oil as maybe I feed small amount..

My fish seems to like it, but maybe nothing eles to eat so that's why? Haha..

On the healthy a not part, I cannot help you much as I only fed for one month, and now I sold off my whole monsterfish comm..


Hope this helps..

[O_jigger]

Try kunning. You can see the differences. I see my fishes prefer kunning meat also.

[shiokmc]

Good read .....bedtime story

http://www.safecatfish.com/wp-conten...sk-_Report.pdf
See pg12 of report (17/51)

Thanks for the input bros...

So far my fishes grows very fat and fast with the sutchi diet. I find it Especially good to pump up the sizes of ITs and build the thickness of the Arowanas...I used to feed MP but really very taxing on my wallet considering the number of fishes I have... One feeding can easily be more than 1.2kg of MP!!

Read the report on the catfish... Seems like to those from US are healthier but so far in local supermarkets can only find the Vietnam imported ones... I'm also concern on the safety for human consumption though... I'm sure AVA does conduct lab test to ensure these fishes are safe to eat, in order to allow sales in the market right?

I do have a spare protein skimmer stored around somewhere but have no idea how to fix it up to my 4ft running on OHF... Any suggestions?

I've had seen many bros in the forum stating sutchi diet on their fishes... How do they counter this issue of oily water surface?

[shiokmc]

consider mixing pork [lean meat] w Mp.... thats what i do...

i understand the Pain on wallet for mp...especially year end & CNY

i juz hate taking risks w sutchiii