Good way to Euthanize
- Thread starter Hlee019
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what i do is just get a needle (if you cant find a needle a pin or sharp nail will do) and just stick in its forehead into the brain, it will go in smoothly in half a second, the fish will die instantly, no blood no mess DON'T pull it back out and just throw away the fish!
Industrial;5150368; said:
I do this, but its usually with feeders that you dont want struggling as you feed them to things.
Little different from killing a feeder (definitely less suffering than being chewed by a lung fish, zapped an an electric knifefish, or slashed by a gar)...as opposed to your pet.
lingi;5151220; said:
As someone who has killed more fish than you can possibly imagine I can attest to the fact that this is NOT the best way to go.
Like all the people that are saying "Cut the head off" you are going to have to hold this fish down while you perform physical violence onto it. It isnt just going to sit there, especially as you try to find the brain with a pin.
I have cut myself severely in the past trying to brain (and this is coming from a very experienced spearfisher) fish while underwater...even fish that had already been speared through the head or gills lethally will still struggle. They wont just sit there, and the struggle will not make the poster feel like they did the appropriate thing.
so many ways to kill.. D8 some make sense, and some just sound.. bizarre.. my method is always feed it to a bigger fish [it makes me feel bad sometimes, but not as bad as killing it myself.. i might be a taxidermist but i fail at killing :<] and my monsters always love the treat [no sick fish] or if i have to keep it for art, i can't damage the body in any way so i end up having to freeze it; whether or not the fish's last cold moments are worse than in a tub of poison i'm not sure. nobody can ask the fish... i always do what i can at that moment to make it quickest for the fish anyway... but if anyone's gotta euthanize anything they should send it my way ;]
