# Is there any reason that semen would be bad for my fish? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 6, 2004, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-reason-that-semen-would-be-bad-for-my-fish/238644 "2004-04-06T23:23:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-reason-that-semen-would-be-bad-for-my-fish/238644/101 "2004-04-10T03:55:06Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > True, but if we are going with the “organic” label, we need to make sure that he’s not eating any artificial preservatives or sweeteners. > > So, **GodSka** , how’s your diet? And we may have to look into the matter of the “de-shelled hemp seeds”. Any ahem, active ingredients in your system? ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-reason-that-semen-would-be-bad-for-my-fish/238644/102 "2004-04-10T04:10:10Z")
Nah. The real relevance of the hemp seeds is that **Godska** should use them to grow his own plant(of a legal variety of hemp, I’m sure) instead of buying from local hemp suppliers. I’m guessing the money he spends on hemp is more than enough to feed his fish. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2004, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-reason-that-semen-would-be-bad-for-my-fish/238644/103 "2004-04-10T04:14:53Z")
> [@jarbabyj](#): > > I got a Target flier this week in the Sunday paper. Apparently Senses of Humor are on sale for $5.99 Yeah, that guy’s got some kind of proprietary thing going on about this forum. Last week he got one of the funniest threads I’ve ever read closed down (Habenero peppers) because the thread morphed into posts he didn’t think of as appropriate for GQ, even though it started out with an appropriate question. What a killjoy! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Spurious\_George](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Spurious\_George](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spurious_George)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-reason-that-semen-would-be-bad-for-my-fish/238644/104 "2004-04-12T04:44:14Z")
GodSka, I got your email, but the reply-to address has bounced twice. Contact me again at the email listed in my profile. Sorry folks, now back to the regularly scheduled fish spooge. ---
**Author:** ![ihsus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/6a8cbe/32.png) [@ihsus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ihsus)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-reason-that-semen-would-be-bad-for-my-fish/238644/105 "2004-04-12T06:15:24Z")
Anybody eats milt/fish sperm? I know [some Japanese do!](http://www.matukizusi.com/menu/shirako.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-reason-that-semen-would-be-bad-for-my-fish/238644/106 "2004-04-12T13:18:57Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > I’ve read that a saltwater fish can live for a few hours in a tank of human blood. > > What about semen? Hmmmm. Ambiguous subject here. Let’s see, if the thought experiment is how long semen would live in a tank of blood… According to [this site](http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/dec2001/1008615806.Cb.r.html): > [@](#): > > Sperm in the cervical mucus of a woman’s vagina can survive for up to seven days, which is 168 hours. Without the cervical mucus to both nourish and protect the sperm, the sperm will die within one-half to four hours outside the body. I wonder if blood would “nourish and protect the sperm”. On the other hand, if the thought experiment is how long saltwater fish can live in a tank of semen… I think we need **GodSka** to fill the tank first. I’ll contribute the fish. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-reason-that-semen-would-be-bad-for-my-fish/238644/107 "2004-04-12T14:19:00Z")
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