Best way to euthanise cichlids....:(

[ozzyoscar]

To all who have been saying how "irresponsible I've been, I want you to know that I have had this fish for over a year now, and have never had a problem with it. The reason I wanted to know a good way to euthanize was I thought that it had a pictus catfish's fin barb stuck in it's throat. The JD had been swimming strangely after i netted her and took the remainder of the catfish out. I wasn't going to jump the gun and just kill her, just to know if it came to the point where the fish was so miserable with a barb in her throat that I could painlessly end her suffering. Whats wrong with that? As a hunter and a fisherman, there is always a time where something has come to the point where it is too painful to live on and it's life is needed to be ended. It's called ethics. As for the JD she is fine she has recently colored up quite nicely and is eating great. There is no doubt in my mind that both of the catfishes barbs bade it out of her throat safely.
Cage, I live in NE Iowa, there isn't too much of a selection of LFS that i can access without driving 1+hour. I'm just disappointed that I had to discuss ethics on a fish keeping website.

 

[cage623]

I know what you mean. I live in Dyersville (NE), Iowa. Where in Iowa are you then?

I am really glad that your JD is OK now. I also misread your original post and thought when you said it had a barb in it's throat that you meant the fish. Like a tiger barb. Not the barb from the catfish. This original post make so much more sense now.

-Cage

 

[oriqua]

To all who have been saying how "irresponsible I've been, I want you to know that I have had this fish for over a year now, and have never had a problem with it. The reason I wanted to know a good way to euthanize was I thought that it had a pictus catfish's fin barb stuck in it's throat. The JD had been swimming strangely after i netted her and took the remainder of the catfish out. I wasn't going to jump the gun and just kill her, just to know if it came to the point where the fish was so miserable with a barb in her throat that I could painlessly end her suffering. Whats wrong with that? As a hunter and a fisherman, there is always a time where something has come to the point where it is too painful to live on and it's life is needed to be ended. It's called ethics. As for the JD she is fine she has recently colored up quite nicely and is eating great. There is no doubt in my mind that both of the catfishes barbs bade it out of her throat safely.


I apologize you made your self clear.
Cage, I live in NE Iowa, there isn't too much of a selection of LFS that i can access without driving 1+hour. I'm just disappointed that I had to discuss ethics on a fish keeping website.

i apologize you made yourself clear

 

[dent20]

To all who have been saying how "irresponsible I've been, I want you to know that I have had this fish for over a year now, and have never had a problem with it. The reason I wanted to know a good way to euthanize was I thought that it had a pictus catfish's fin barb stuck in it's throat. The JD had been swimming strangely after i netted her and took the remainder of the catfish out. I wasn't going to jump the gun and just kill her, just to know if it came to the point where the fish was so miserable with a barb in her throat that I could painlessly end her suffering. Whats wrong with that? As a hunter and a fisherman, there is always a time where something has come to the point where it is too painful to live on and it's life is needed to be ended. It's called ethics. As for the JD she is fine she has recently colored up quite nicely and is eating great. There is no doubt in my mind that both of the catfishes barbs bade it out of her throat safely.
Cage, I live in NE Iowa, there isn't too much of a selection of LFS that i can access without driving 1+hour. I'm just disappointed that I had to discuss ethics on a fish keeping website.

I'm in the QC, so another Iowa cichlid keeper. Understand your frustration with this site. The ridicule and scorn some people here dish out is ridiculous and it's why I've stopped posting as much. Some quickly jump the gun and assume you're just some noob who knows nothing about fish, which is naive and unhelpful.

I've also seen this topic come up again and again on this site - how do you euthanize and when. There is no definitive right way to do it. Clove oil is not nearly as effective as some insist. As for when, that's every owners individual call. Personally, I don't get why someone would let a fish that can't swim live (earlier post). That seems inhumane to me, but it's not my fish.

 

[ozzyoscar]

I'm in the QC, so another Iowa cichlid keeper. Understand your frustration with this site. The ridicule and scorn some people here dish out is ridiculous and it's why I've stopped posting as much. Some quickly jump the gun and assume you're just some noob who knows nothing about fish, which is naive and unhelpful.

I've also seen this topic come up again and again on this site - how do you euthanize and when. There is no definitive right way to do it. Clove oil is not nearly as effective as some insist. As for when, that's every owners individual call. Personally, I don't get why someone would let a fish that can't swim live (earlier post). That seems inhumane to me, but it's not my fish.

I completely agree with you, and thanks for seeing where I'm coming from, as I stated before I was just worried about her, and as I also said before, she is doing great again. I also think that some people are being rather rude on this website that ANY fish keeper can join. People need to think before they post. There is a difference between ethically putting down a fish and mindlessly slaughtering. Also letting a fish suffer is wrong.

 

[h20cyclone]

Freeze it. Slows the blood flow. Although just give it away or something, I'd never suggest killing off a healthy fish ever. I know there are plenty of great homes you could relocate it to.

 

[ozzyoscar]

Freeze it. Slows the blood flow. Although just give it away or something, I'd never suggest killing off a healthy fish ever. I know there are plenty of great homes you could relocate it to.

We've been over this if you would have read the previous posts, It's doing good now and there is no reason (never was) for me to euthanize (except that I though it had a catfish's barb in it's throat) it or re home it. I will never kill a healthy (pet) fish.

 

[plecostic]

It tried to eat my pictus cat (R.I.P.), and I fear it has a barb in it's throat.

You do know you can cut the barb out of the fish's throat right. I did this for my Oscar when he tried to eat my Oto fish. The barb was stuck in his mouth, I performed what I call oral surgery lol. I took some scissors and opened the mouth, cut the barb, then used tweezers to pull them out. Oscar was good as new, sort of. His mouth was a bit crooked, not from the barb, but because at the time, I did not know how gently you need to be handling fish, so I think I broke his jaw or mangled it a bit. He's all good now for the most part, he can open, close, eat, mouth just looks a little crooked. Don't be afraid to perform some fish surgery, they don't feel pain and it's a good time to bond with fish.

 

[cacichlids]

Don't be afraid to perform some fish surgery, they don't feel pain and it's a good time to bond with fish.

They do feel pain, and there's no such thing as "bonding" when the poor creature is asphyxiating lol. Any procedure like that will be extremely stressful for any fish and they might take months to recover from the trauma of being handled for longs periods of time, and that's just one of the risks. Of course it's always better than the alternative (death) but let's not call it something that it's not.

 

[Aquamojo]

I'm just disappointed that I had to discuss ethics on a fish keeping website.

Really? How can you spout "fish ethics" when you are feeding another LIVE fish to your Dempsey. Aren't goldfish...fish? Or is the ethics good only so far up the fishy food chain. And please don't go on about fish eating fish in the wild. The fish isn't in the wild...and they don't eat goldfish where they live.

And for the record, there is a product called Hypno that works well. Oil of clove is fine, but not as quick as the hypno.