Body Disposal. Help!

[Specialk314]

Sadly her wounds are so sadly ugly so that is not a good option...unless it was for a disease study...good idea though for a better looking corpse.

Sorry, didn't know she died due to wounds. I used to intern at the Smithsonian Museum Support Center in the Division of Fishes so i spent last summer with millions (literally) or jared fish. Sorry bout your loss. Good luck figuring out what you're going to do!

 

[lolpard]

Columnaris secondary to wounds...it ate at her

 

[treldib]

So she was a Channel Cat? Sorry for your loss...

 

[lolpard]

Sorry I am not being clear here...I have several posts going at once. Search my name to see them all. She was a bullhead that I raised from a baby. Tiny one inch fry are hard to identify and after I got her home and started doing research I was under the impression that she could be a channel cat. Thank God she was not because my largest tank is 55. Sadly that is not where she was as I was forbidden to set it up by my landlord due to weight issues as I am on the third floor...if I had we would not be here things would have been totally different....and she may not have died. Sigh.

 

[Joe M]

Don't throw it in the trash. That's really terrible. I think it says a lot about how you really feel about your fish if you just toss them in the trash. They aren't trash. Maybe it's just me, but I love my fish very dearly. I feel close to them. I know it's in my head, but I do, and it means a lot to me. I agree with kevinfleming, seal the little guy in a freezer bag, and get a nice little box. You could go to a thrift store and they always have little boxes like that. Then go to a park, or near a river, or something, and bury the fish. I live in an apartment so I can't bury mine either. But this is what I do, I freeze them and then bury them in a nearby wooded area. From the Earth, back to the Earth.

I like to treat my fish with respect, and I imagine their energy wafting up and back into the universe to be re-used elsewhere.

I really hope it works out for you, and I'm sorry about your fish.

Look, I love my fish, but when its dead, its dead. It isn't making a difference to me or the fish if its in the ground or the trash. Kinda sucks for the fish either way, but hey, that's life.


Maybe I'm just not as spiritual as everyone who feels the need to bury their fish. Maybe it's also different if you don't have over 30 fish. I could see it being more difficult to trash a fish if you only have one.

 

[goosej13]

I threw mine in the backyard for dog to eat..

 

[lolpard]

@ Joe. We are all different. After 2.5 years of companionship and watching a 1 inch fry grow to 9.5 and then 5 days of shear hell watching the disease eat her skin and being unable to ease the pain a toss into the trash seems well....yucky.

She is too big for a "burial at sea" with a short send off speech...so can't do that either.

I understand how you feel. Please be respectful of people who may feel differently. I was trying for 10 years or more with this fish she was not just an ornament.

 

[mshill90]

@ Joe. We are all different. After 2.5 years of companionship and watching a 1 inch fry grow to 9.5 and then 5 days of shear hell watching the disease eat her skin and being unable to ease the pain a toss into the trash seems well....yucky.

She is too big for a "burial at sea" with a short send off speech...so can't do that either.

I understand how you feel. Please be respectful of people who may feel differently. I was trying for 10 years or more with this fish she was not just an ornament.

Joe wasn't being disrespectful- just showing his side.

You asked for options.

I've thrown most of mine in the trash, some in my compost bin, some IN the neighbors car.

 

[NCStateFisher]

sorry for your loss, I too raised a baby bullhead from the time it was about a 1" fry and also thought it was a channel cat when i was a kid :\

 

[JK47]

This is going to sound terrible but it is another/different option. You can seal the fish in a bag, freeze it and take it into a taxidermist (spelling) they can clean it and preserve the skeleton and make it into an ornament that you can display. A while back there were a few people asking for dead fish in the marketplace to do this very thing. I personaly put large fish in bags and go the trash route but have always wanted to try this route as well. Seems like a unique way to preserve what your fish meant to you.