Cooked shrimp for fish food?

[ReefsandGeeks]

I know you're soposed to feed raw/uncooked food to your fish, but I'm curious what the harm is in feeding cooked/frozen shrimp instead of raw/frozen shrimp.
The main reason I ask is my wife just picked up a bag of frozen shrimp for my fish while she was out, but didn't realize or didn't check to see if it was raw or cooked. I'm wondering if it's safe to feed it to my fish or if I really need to toss it and get a new bag of raw. At least it's not breaded shrimp :hmm5:

My thoughts on it are of course they eat only raw in the wild, and replicating nature is generally best, but what is it about cooking that might make the food unsuitable for fish? We eat cooked food all the time and it's obviously okay for us. We can also eat raw and unless the food is tainted we're fine with that too. If anything, for humans cooked food is safer. Wouldn't it be the same for fish? Does cooking the food destroy the nutrition that they need or something like that?

 

[wrott]

Cooking denatures the protein making it insoluble and inaccessible to enzymatic digestion in some animals. Especially eels--cooked can cause intestinal blockage.

 

[AlSimmons]

I used to feed my RBTA along with many different LPS corals cooked shrimp from the supermarket all the time without any problems. The fish got their fair share too when this happened and were fat and happy. This was only done maybe once every three or four weeks though. Dry foods along with many different frozen foods were the staple.

 

[hkgar]

My thoughts on it are of course they eat only raw in the wild, a

They don't eat cooked in the wild as the ability to have a fire under water as not yet been discovered.

 

[idan555]

They don't eat cooked in the wild as the ability to have a fire under water as not yet been discovered.

Lol not according to spongebob

 

[hkgar]

Lol not according to spongebob

Well, he does soak up a lot of information.

 

[SnoopyDaPimp]

They don't eat cooked in the wild as the ability to have a fire under water as not yet been discovered.

What if someone drops a magnesium VW motor that has already been set on fire on the reef? I used to have an extra case laying around.

 

[ReefsandGeeks]

Alright, thanks for the info. I guess I should go and get a new bag of uncooked shrimp then for my puffer. I don't want to risk an issue with the food, especially a whole pound of food before I get the next bag. Plus, I will be going on vacation, so my tank sitter will not know what is normal behavior and would likely not recognize a problem until it's too late. I do have pretty specific instructions on what to check and do, but if anything happens the sitter will have to call me as I have no friends in the hobby that would be able to take care of the tank in the event that something needed adjusting. Luckily, my tank is pretty self sufficient other than feeding food and a small dose of vinegar for carbon dosing.

 

[AlSimmons]

FWIW when I used to feed cooked shrimp to my inhabitants I would just ask the butcher at the supermarket for $1 worth. At first he looked at me kind of strange, but once I explained what I was doing with it he was happy to oblige. Unless you plan on feeding shrimp on a regular basis you don't really have to purchase a whole bag. Just buy a small amount, use what you need and eat the rest.