getting rid of sick fish.

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Jack Dempsey
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I have a 55 gallon full of guppies and platies, you may have heard me talk about them before.

Thing is, they are all sick, imbreed fish taking up a 55 gallon i could use for something more monsterish. guppies were cool when i was like 10 years old, but now its time to move on.

so how can i get rid of them all humanley? they are all sick, so i woulden't feed them to something, or send out and have you guys feed them to something. and i'm a bit embarassed talking a bucket load of sick fish to my lsf...

any suggestions?
 
Most are sick with dropsy and tail rot, medicine had little effect.

Some had TB, and some were just plain crazy from years of inbreeding:screwy:
(we started with 3 guppies, now have 50+, started with 2 platies now, 10+, not all babys survived eather, so they were from multiple groups.)

But not all the fish are infected, tetras seem to be unharmed (i've had them since the beginning of the tank, extremely hardy, survived hurricanes) and my inverts seem to be fine too.
 
Well, for the healthy ones, maybe you can give them out to someone to keep them as pets. If you take the rest to the LFS, they will probably sell them as feeders. So either that or you can euthanize them. Sick/inbred fish are weak anyway and wont live long. It may be the best for them.
 
You can get clove oil from the pharmacy. The amounts are drops per gallon.

Put the fish in a pail of water, say 1 gallon. Take 10 drops of clove oil and mix it with a quart of water and shake it till the liquid mixes well. Add this to the pail of water and this will put the fish to sleep. Then you take another quart of water and mix 50 drops in it, shake and add this to the pail and stir. This will OD the fish. From there I put the pail in the freezer and let freeze, just to make sure.
Hope this helps,
Jeff
 
feed the cats and raccons and possums the sick ones. or just keep trying to treat them and seperate them
 
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