Death,...by any means necessary!

[Pure]

HAHA Delta you sicko!
I voted for my favorite method. The blender. Sure I've used clove oil and vodka and also 50/50 mix of vodka and water. Both work well, but when you are culling a lot of fish this just isn't economically practical.

I'm actually surprised to see the blender method on here....Thought I came up with that one on my own.

I do have to disagree with a couple of the humane ratings...Both the temp shock ones are total BS. Both boiling and freezing is painful until the fish succumbs.

The blender rating is 100% humane even if it isn't on. It's not like your are supposed to put the fish in there dry. Put them and the water they were in in the blender, hit the button and in less the 2 seconds you have fish soup.

 

[Stevie]

Delta you know this thread will get locked in the end!! I geuss thats park of you charm!*PEACE!*

I bash them of the wall in my garden! Kills them outright! However I only do it as a last resort or if the killed more then 1 fish.

 

[Toam]

HAHA Delta you sicko!
I voted for my favorite method. The blender. Sure I've used clove oil and vodka and also 50/50 mix of vodka and water. Both work well, but when you are culling a lot of fish this just isn't economically practical.

I'm actually surprised to see the blender method on here....Thought I came up with that one on my own.

I do have to disagree with a couple of the humane ratings...Both the temp shock ones are total BS. Both boiling and freezing is painful until the fish succumbs.

The blender rating is 100% humane even if it isn't on. It's not like your are supposed to put the fish in there dry. Put them and the water they were in in the blender, hit the button and in less the 2 seconds you have fish soup.

I have a blender, and I agree 100% with you pure, I don't think the fish would have time to realize it isn't in another glass bowl before he was pureed. But I must say I think i'd have to look away before hitting that button, specially if the little bugger was staring at me. unless it was a vicious killer, in which case I'd treat it more like the chair, maybe give a hood on the blender?*twirlysmi

 

[Pure]

Actually I use a "magic bullet" smaller and easier to clean

 

[Toam]

Actually I use a "magic bullet" smaller and easier to clean

There's a method to your madness eh?

 

[maxphran]

I thought that freezing tropicals was inhumane because they're not like humans where we pretty much just go senseless. I was under the impression that they suffer quite a lot through freezing. As for boiling, I don't really understand that either, how is this humane? I can't think it would be very painless. Blending seems like a good option but rather gory for my tastes This is all conjecture though, aside from hearing stuff on the grapvine I don't actually know.

I do however, seriously disagree with just letting nature take its course (and the same goes for people). I think that watching your fish slowly die from whatever course, gradually suffering more and more is inhumane. I personally feel better having the ability (and right) to stop their suffering. I suppose you could aruge that they might get better. Well, obviously I don't just kill my fish without trying to help them but when a point is reached it is just too horrible to not euthanise them. Even if it was possible they could get better through magic or something, I think I'd rather spare them that suffering.

I personally use clove oil. It seems pretty gentle. The fish seems to just slow down and slow down until it goes to sleep, then dies. although I make sure to leave it in the clove oil for a good few hours. I've heard that often fish can seem to no longer be breathing and seem totally dead but this is just some weird in between and they have a tendency to wake up again if taken out of the oil too soon.

Yikes! I have an amazing ability and tendency to write long posts. Guess I'm just that darn opinionated haha.

 

[fishtrap]

Blunt trauma for me. Instantaneous 100% smash of bone, sinew, and all gray matter. Lights on, lights off -instantly.

I like the wet crunching sound too.

 

[jumpfreak26]

When i feed my guppy fry to my dwarf gourami and betta, i just catch em in the net, and flick em in the head, it kills em quick, no pain just what is going o..klunk,lights out. i came up with this way because when i go fishing, i have to whack the fish with a stick to knck him out, and kills him in seconds, it sounds cruel, but not as cruel as lettign them go slow

 

[plattygirl]

Hmmn after reading all of these posts i'm going to ring a specialist fish vet and find out what they recommend as the best method. I have always frozen my fish in the freezer as i honestly thought this was the kindest way. Now i dont know that it was the right thing to do. I havent had to put a fish out of its misery for a little while but if i have to do it again in the future then i'd like to know that i'm doing it in the best possible way for the fish in question. If that means sacrificing a bit of vodka or buying something from the vets then thats what i'll do.

 

[maxphran]

Can you post what your vet says? It would be good to hear what a pro thinks.

 

[fishtrap]

Is the vodka for the culler or the cullie?

 

[NoDeltaH2O]

Good one FishTrap.

I bump this thread every few months for the new members. I love gathering data, and I am honestly surprised to see that out of 74 voters (to date), almost 1/3 chose freezing (as I do), 1/3 cannot bring themselves toe euthanize, and 1/3 of the votes are divided up among the other choices.

Call me cruel, but I am honeslty glad to see that only one person voted for the professional anasthetic. People, especially in the Western world, spend way too much moneyon pet medical care, imo, of course.

 

[UP UP AND GUPPY]

Your right nodeltah, people spend too much money on what they can do themselves

 

[Cichlid-Man]

I say off with their heads! Depending on the fish size i can adjust the blade size accordingly.

 

[YahooFishKeeper]

lol. isnt the machete a bit overkill?

 

[NoDeltaH2O]

but a nice photograph by C-Man of the reflection of a fish in the machete blade would be a winner...

 

[maxphran]

You scrooges!! haha.

I would most definately get things from the vet... but that would involve leaving the house! dun dun!!!!!!!!!! *crazysmil

 

[Etheostoma]

Dunno where the "humane" ratings came from, but we're talking fish, not puppies or kittens. Additionally, alcohol sure as blazes isn't anywhere near anything even remotely resembling "humane". The critters linger in agony until they suffocate from lack of oxygen or their respiratory tissues are dessicated.

Sudden blunt trauma: scoop & thwack (while still in net). 100% guaranteed to off the fish before it even realizes what's going on.

For the peeps who cannot bring themselves to euthanize, your fish have my utmost sympathy and condolences.

 

[NoDeltaH2O]

Dunno where the "humane" ratings came from, but we're talking fish, not puppies or kittens. ...

Yeah, I can understand your confusion about using the word "humane" to refer to animals. We went through a rather lengthy debate about using the word humane when referring to animals about a year ago. I think the conclusion is that it is appropriate, both linguistically, grammatically, and contextually to use "humane" when referring to the treatment of animals.

I could search for that thread and post it here for you if you like.

 

[Mushroomman]

Still an advocate of the blunt trauma