ever kill a healthy fish on purpose
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I haven't killed any Pet fish on purpose that weren't incurably sick. As an avid fisherman, I kill fish all the time.
When I catch a Snake Head or a Claria, I have to kill it on the spot, it's the law here.
When I catch a Snake Head or a Claria, I have to kill it on the spot, it's the law here.
Danzig86;3916755; said:
I fish at least 3 times a week, just sayin'... Is fishing for sport and/or to eat torture to you?
I'm just wondering as I've put down maybe 5 consistently problematic fish that I've raised from fry.
Fishings fine, i thought this was about ornamental fish though............i'm Australian if i didnt fish/camp/shoot/hunt and stab things i'd be banished. lolmegalops///;3916772; said:
If you buy a fish, without reading up on it first, take it home, watch it smash everything else in your tank, then kill the fish for doin what its encoded genetically to do, you have one too many of the same chromosomes and killing fish is the least of your problems................
Good job!!! I've had to dump at least a couple thousand gambusia on the side of a nearby lake and watch them die for exact same reason. If your gonna eat it, kill it, if its sick and too far gone, kill it, if its feral and introduced, FEED IT TO YOUR FISH or kill it...notnew2dis;3916757; said:
.....or you could always prepare it in a nice dish.I have never purposely killed a fish but I've come very close to feelings of doing so.When I am trying to net a fish out of a tank and it is soo damned fast it takes a while to finally catch it,that really gets me going sometimes.chefjamesscott;3915520; said:
I've killed a couple of fish (literally two) when my dislike of them caused me to go into denial about their health.
Example: An overstocked tank had an outbreak of ich and one of the newer fish I wasn't attached to was not doing well (swimming upside down, continuing to have ich when all the other fish were responding to treatment, etc). So I "quarantined" him in a 5 gallon tank with no heater, assuming he would be dead by morning.
Two days later he is refusing to die. Perhaps even getting better, but I leave him in my poorly set up QT tank because I don't want him back in the main tank.
Eventually he dies, probably from the cold water.
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I feel like I killed a fish that was fighting to survive, and it's a horrible feeling. That was maybe two years ago before I knew how to set up a proper QT tank, and I would never do it again. I am still stricken with guilt over it. Crazy, right?
Example: An overstocked tank had an outbreak of ich and one of the newer fish I wasn't attached to was not doing well (swimming upside down, continuing to have ich when all the other fish were responding to treatment, etc). So I "quarantined" him in a 5 gallon tank with no heater, assuming he would be dead by morning.
Two days later he is refusing to die. Perhaps even getting better, but I leave him in my poorly set up QT tank because I don't want him back in the main tank.
Eventually he dies, probably from the cold water.
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I feel like I killed a fish that was fighting to survive, and it's a horrible feeling. That was maybe two years ago before I knew how to set up a proper QT tank, and I would never do it again. I am still stricken with guilt over it. Crazy, right?
This is why non educated people shouldn't participate in a hobby like this that they don't fully understand. If people would setup pairings of fish correctly you wouldn't have a problem to start with. Killing a creature besides to put it out of its dying misery is ridiculous. How would you feel if someone killed you because you were a pain in the butt?
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