Whole catfish

[Corvidophile]

A fish butcher has a $2.00/lb sale on catfish and I'm thinking about it. Is there anything notable about feeding entire catfish? I've read that something about them can bind thiamine, but am not sure how often is too often to feed this, I need to chunk it into meals anyway, they're two feet long! The fish butcher marks it as wild, do I need to cut open the belly and empty it, do I need to freeze it? How does one gut a fish like this, all the tutorials I can find are focused on upending the whole thing for human consumption.

[Sherry]

I would gut, prep, and freeze for 2 weeks first, then feed it You can give as a regular part of the rotation on a weekly basis.

[Corvidophile]

@sherry so just throw all the innards out like I was gonna serve it to a person, there aren't any valuable fish giblets to save?

[Sherry]

Not really. I have found the only "innards" my ferrets eat from fish are when the fish are very small, like a smelt.