ok so all of us at some time have had to euthanise a fish i am sure, and i know this topic is hotly debated, but what are your preferred methods? and reasons behind the method?
fish euthanasia?
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sometimes i have had fish that have been badly battered or suffering due to illness. recently i lost my largest tinfoil to (i think) a swim bladder infection. he started to swim upside down the he just rested on the substrate upside down, pleco started to try and eat his eyes. i took him out and put him in a poly box with meth blue and lots of air but it did not help him and he died himself, but i have had other fish i had to euthanise.
Cove oil is my preferred method.
INtersting TidBit;
Policy and Procedures for Petsmart Requires fish that are
too sick for treatment to be euthanized with baking soda.
INtersting TidBit;
Policy and Procedures for Petsmart Requires fish that are
too sick for treatment to be euthanized with baking soda.
Clove Oil. I dont freeze fish unless their already dead. I always think that their blood starts to freeze while its still pumping through their body and it's cutting them up from the inside. 
Wouldn't want it to happen to me. Don't know if it's true but I don't want to take a chance of causing more pain.
Wouldn't want it to happen to me. Don't know if it's true but I don't want to take a chance of causing more pain.i have been told about clove oil before but i always thought it to be cruel would be like drowning.
i know some wont agree with my method and maybe my reasoning is wrong but i put my dying fish into a jug or bucket with their own water and put them in the freezer.
my reasons are that i believe it to slow their metabolism down just like it does in the wild until they go to sleep and just drift away peacefully in their sleep. it has been said that although not like mammals, fish do hibernate and in that time they slow metabolism and heart rate down and enter a stupor. whilst in my freezer i believe they do the same thing only eventually whilst asleep, their heart just stops and the fish has had a peaceful end. i know i would like to go in my sleep
i know some wont agree with my method and maybe my reasoning is wrong but i put my dying fish into a jug or bucket with their own water and put them in the freezer.
my reasons are that i believe it to slow their metabolism down just like it does in the wild until they go to sleep and just drift away peacefully in their sleep. it has been said that although not like mammals, fish do hibernate and in that time they slow metabolism and heart rate down and enter a stupor. whilst in my freezer i believe they do the same thing only eventually whilst asleep, their heart just stops and the fish has had a peaceful end. i know i would like to go in my sleep
With clove oil they sleep too. You add little by little till the fish goes belly up and its asleep. Add a little more and then it dies. I think freezing is painful. Some fish are tropical fish and cant even tolerate something under 70 degrees. Freezing them is slow cruel death in my opinion.