Death,...by any means necessary!

How Do U Euthanize Your Fish?

  • Flushing: Humane rating: 0% (if I could use a minus figure I would)

    Votes: 9 6.3%
  • Sudden Blunt Trauma: Humane rating: 60%

    Votes: 9 6.3%
  • Decapitation: Humane rating: 50%

    Votes: 6 4.2%
  • The Blender: Humane rating: 90% if the blender is on, 30% if you add fish w/ blender off

    Votes: 2 1.4%
  • Freezing: Humane rating: 85% (for carp family) 25% (for tropicals)

    Votes: 11 7.7%
  • Temperature Shock (Freezing): Humane rating: 100% (not for coldwater fish)

    Votes: 34 23.8%
  • Temperature Shock (Boiling): Humane rating: 100%

    Votes: 7 4.9%
  • Alcohol: Humane rating: 100%

    Votes: 12 8.4%
  • MS-222 (or other veterinarian anesthetics): Humane rating: 100%

    Votes: 5 3.5%
  • I cannot bring myself to euthanize my beloved fish: Humane rating: 100%

    Votes: 48 33.6%

  • Total voters
    143

Toggil

Large Fish
Jun 10, 2006
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#81
I just had to put one of my platy's down, I used the putting water in the freezer till its almost ice then put the fish in it method. It seemed pretty quick I put him in he moved his fins a little and that was it. Not quite instant like the article says but close.
 

Pure

Elite Fish
Nov 1, 2005
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#82
*sigh* Gonzo my man. You may as well put the fish in muriatic acid. What the heck where you thinking!! Who TF told you to use rubbing alcohol? Your supposed to use a diluted vodka mix 50/50 at the strongest.
 

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Dr.Gonzo

Large Fish
May 21, 2006
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#85
What is so outlandish? Killing a fish with rubbing alcohol? It does the job doesn't it? Also I read your earlier post about using 50/50 I still think the fish will suffer (not that I care).
 

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FroggyFox

Forum Manager
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May 16, 2003
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#86
ALRIGHTY after some surgery this post is again open.....FOR NOW.

A 'helpful reminder' to those who may have spent the majority of the evening posting on this thread and arguing...that personal attacks are NOT tolerated on this board. If you feel the need to do that at LEAST take it to the PM's ok? NOW What I'd personally like to hear is Gonzo and Pure discuss the rubbing alcohol vs 50/50 vodka issue as if they were actually interested in the outcome rather than proving who is the creme de la creme fishkeeper.

Thanks.
 

Pure

Elite Fish
Nov 1, 2005
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#88
For starters none of my posts said I was better than any one. I am the one who sits here being called names. Yet now i am expected to just sit here and take it.. I think not!

For starter rubbing alcohol is caustic. If you drink enough of it you will die. A slow and agonizing death. Plain and simple. no argument is needed to dispute the fact. Never have I said a fish doesn't suffer from being mixed in a 50/50 solution of vodka....not even in my deleted posts did I EVER SAY THIS. I simply said that to put a fish in rubbing alcohol is as bad as putting the fish in a bath of acid. At least in daluted vodka it is not as harsh, the fish gets drunk. The fish then goes into it's own form of alcohol poisoning. But unlike you and I they are very small. They do not have the luxury of the hours of pain we feel. The alcohol takes over the fishes body who in retrospect has no choice but to shut down.

I have seen this first hand, and can assure you yes the fish struggles. But it lasts for about 4 seconds. Even to me this is actually too long, however I have never put a fish in RUBBING ALCOHOL. Drink that stuff and see how you feel tomorrow. I guarantee you if you are alive you will wish for death. Go ahead and ask any alcoholic.

Gonzo..I wish you good luck with your fish.

Edit: I still stand behing my blender method for small fish :p
 

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Dr.Gonzo

Large Fish
May 21, 2006
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#89
LOL, Pure's post put that way wouldn't have pissed me off in the least.

Well now that everything is back to normal I'll offer my hugs and kisses to Pure as an apology.

Now for the rubbing alcohol, I don’t care I’ll probably just keep cutting heads off (Not that I've needed to kill many of my fish) or boiling water seems to be good.
 

Igor The Cat

Superstar Fish
Jul 14, 2003
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#90
I wouldnt recomend boiling water as heat will make atoms MORE active unlike LESS cause by extreme cold. to prove this i reccomend you stick your hand in a pot of boiling water and then the other into some liquid nitrogen. THEN tell us which hurts more

cheers

-Java
 

Dr.Gonzo

Large Fish
May 21, 2006
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#91
Meh, I'm sure the shock of being dipped in a nice rolling boil will kill a small fish in no time, I wouldn't do it to a fish much bigger than your average molly. I'm going to look into some of this muriatic acid I keep hearing about I’ve heard it works wonders.
 

Dr.Gonzo

Large Fish
May 21, 2006
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#92
well I guess we'll just have to do an experement to see what works better. I'll buy 5 gold fish of simluar size and place them in pure rubbing ethnol and 5 in a vodka and water mix then I'll time them to see who dies first.












JK :p
 

ecotank

Superstar Fish
Aug 30, 2003
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#96
Cichlid-Man said:
Where can i find one of those Eco? Got connections? ;)

I could also use a Jeep mount for a 50cal.
If I told you I could hook you up, I'd have the feds at my door before the next post.

And if I've said it once, I've said it a million times! Real men don't use mounts for a 50 cal. Simply throw the belt over your shoulder, tuck it in tight and support with your left hand. If you can't get a 5" group at 1000 yrds then you simply are not a man!
 

Igor The Cat

Superstar Fish
Jul 14, 2003
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#99
well ive found tha the javalin works just fine for fish such as smaller tetras, the explosions works even if your a couple inches off, but cosidering its got that new fangled "Infared" targeting thingamabob ive never missed once lol

cheers

-Java