Should I raise a lobster?

Question

The sudden idea of raising a lobster in my fishtank just came to me. I wonder if I could make it taster by the time it grew to full length! Can anyone tell me how to raise one?

P.S I'll let it die of old age, boiling it alive seems too cruel D:

Answer 1

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LOL haha you should do a lobster rescue!!!! You should like buy all the live lobsters in the supermarkets that are for sale and keep them as pets and when they die you could eat them!! Well... that wouldn't be very good because they could have died of some weird disease... but that would be ossm :D I guess you would have to just make a normal saltwater tank (they are saltwater unless the ones in the supermarkets are different species). The people at supermarkets neglect their poor lobsters... I mean they just have a tank of water and just stuff it with lobsters! But then again you can't blame the lobster for being tasty... it wasn't the lobster's fault that they were yummy... I don't think you'd find any lobsters in any pet stores because pet stores want you to keep the animal as a pet so it would be risky doing that then all the people lying about keeping the lobsters as pets and just eating them. So I guess the only place you can get them is at a supermarket! Oh yeah to take care of them you can get live or artificial plants and get pebbles and a filter. You don't have to but you'd make the lobster's life better :D

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very cute =D thanks for your answers guys

Answer 2

Well i have not kept the kind you eat, but i have kept Purple Reef Lobsters. they are very hardy and easy to care for assuming you can run a saltwater aquarium. The ones i had were scavengers, eat algea growing in the tank, and i'd feed him silversides and krill from time to time. the bigger ones probably take alot more food. =)

Answer 3

Well, I'm sure you could raise one, provided you give it a large enough tank and feed it the right food. Just remember that they're salt water animals and would need a very large tank to live in comfortably.

And the 'boiling alive' thing is past becoming a thing of the fast. Several of my friends work part time at seafood restaurants, and all of them either euthanize lobsters with blunt force or a needle-like thing into the brain. As equally cruel as this sounds, it is actually a very quick, very painless death.

Answer 4

if u let them die of old age u will be dead 2 they can live for up 2 a hundred years or more in the right conditions boiling aint cruel it kills them instantly as long as u put them in head first

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my dad works on a lobster boat

Answer 5

Not the ones from Albersons or other food stores..they'll clime out!!!

Answer 6

Unless you have a very large shallow tank, this isn't going to be an easy task no to mention the feeding of the dead fish. Up and running marine set up, preferably a pond size matured (over 6 months). sandy bottom with lots of room. Pleanty of crustations and fed dead fish daily.

Believe me it isn't worth the effort.

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4467744…
http://www.coastallobster.com/About_lobs…

Here are two sites....good luck

Answer 7

your lobster will live for years before it dies and eat any that fits in its pinsers.