euthanasia you fish??

[sushi*roll]

If you have a sick fish and there is nothing you can do to help it, do you think it's better so flush it to put the poor thing out of it's misery or leave it to possibly suffer on the slim chance it might get better??

 

[exhumed07]

most people frown on flushing. most put them in the freezer wich I think is just as cruel cause then the fish freeze to death. I'm more of a quick kill person. now mind u I have no emotional attachment to my fish so it's simple for me to kill them. but a sudden impact to the head works for me. for a large fish, say and oscar laying it on the ground and pop it with a hard object and thats good enough to finish it off. pretty much destroy the brain as quick as possible. thats y with the catfish I bring home from fishing I hit in the head with a board with 3 nails in it. nails penatrate the brain and the fish dies painlessly. I would tell u how I finish off my cichlids when they have problems but I would get strung up here I think.

 

[achase]

I don't really agree with flushing because it isn't really an instant death. I have never really had to deal with this issue...but when my fish in the past have become ill I do attempt to treat (mediate) them and if the treating doesn't work they are usually dead the next morning. I have never had a fish linger...

I did overdose my sick fish once and it was a pretty quick death but it wasn't intentional. I have heard of the method where you put your fish to sleep using clove oil and then add vodka (which kills them).

This website has a list of euthanasia methods: How to Humanly Euthanize Your Fish - Rate My Fish Tank

most people frown on flushing. most put them in the freezer wich I think is just as cruel cause then the fish freeze to death. I'm more of a quick kill person. now mind u I have no emotional attachment to my fish so it's simple for me to kill them. but a sudden impact to the head works for me. for a large fish, say and oscar laying it on the ground and pop it with a hard object and thats good enough to finish it off. pretty much destroy the brain as quick as possible. thats y with the catfish I bring home from fishing I hit in the head with a board with 3 nails in it. nails penatrate the brain and the fish dies painlessly. I would tell u how I finish off my cichlids when they have problems but I would get strung up here I think.

That is slightly graphic...but I agree with the quick death idea. Maybe not your methods because I usually develop an emotional attachment to my fish, but to each his/her own.

 

[blue_ram]

The most humane way to euthanise your fish is to put ice in a cup of water until the water is ice cold and drop the fish in the cup. It will die instantly, no twitching and will feel no pain

 

[BristlenosePleco]

I feel the best way is to just whip it at the ground as hard as you can! Brutal I know, but quick!

 

[exhumed07]

thats generally my way bristle. glad u said it and not me though lol. but after I do that my cats come by and eat them.