have you ever done mercy killing

[packer43064]

Yes I have. My Jag was pretty jacked up after jumping out of my tank. Been out for at least 30min to an hour put him back in the water and put him near the flow of a powerhead. I knew he wouldn't make it till tommorow. I took him outside and picked up a hammer and smashed his skull real good then the rest of his body. Messy but it worked.

 

[Wet Whiskers]

I had a 10inch sleeper goby that developed a mean swim bladder infection... i tried a lil epsom salt as someone told me to try... it got worse... so i just burried it alive...

You burried it alive? Oh my God! :WTF: That's awful and cruel! I have to bite my tongue or I will get banned for the things I have to say to you. I know I'm not the only one that abhors the idea of burrying an animal alive, and for you to call it a mercy killing makes me sick. There are a lot of other ways to this...

 

[Lupin]

i wouldnt consider flushing mercy killing
they may be near death but wouldnt flushing give em more suffering
down the sceptic tank?

It would. I'm surprised at how some people euthanized their pets and quite frankly, I'm disappointed. I always knew euthanasia is such a touchy subject which is why I don't usually touch threads like this with a ten-foot pole.

Just consider clove oil, decapitation or a blow with a hard object. Whether you find it disgusting or not, the point of euthanasia is to ensure instantaneous (as much as humane) death.

 

[spaulding]

never had to do it to a fish, but my apricot pueblan milksnake unfortanitly had to make a trip to the freezer. i couldn't bring myself to do it any other way.

 

[cichlid2006]

It would. I'm surprised at how some people euthanized their pets and quite frankly, I'm disappointed. I always knew euthanasia is such a touchy subject which is why I don't usually touch threads like this with a ten-foot pole.

Just consider clove oil, decapitation or a blow with a hard object. Whether you find it disgusting or not, the point of euthanasia is to ensure instantaneous (as much as humane) death.

out of all those methods clove oil is the least messy and least brutal and i prefer clove oil instead of either of the others, but clove oil is slow and it was quite an upsetting thing for me to watch all my loved fish go into a sleep before i put in the lethal dose. good for the fish but not so much for the keeper, but it isnt our feelings that matter when you get to that stage.

 

[packer43064]

I've never used clove oil but have heard of it sometimes just plain out not working or it takes forever and the fish is going mad crazy while this is happeneing. I think just a hard blow to the head or straight up decapitation is better in my opinion.

I've had some fry(1 inchers tops) that got pretty beat up because the parents laid new eggs and just went crazy on the older fry. Instead of just letting them die or die while I was at work and mess up my water I took them out and cut their heads off essentially with a pair of scissors. A bit gross, but nothing worse than puttting a worm on a hook or anything like that. Of course for a bigger fish that you had for years it might be harder to just crush it's skull but in the end I wouldn't want it suffering for months.

 

[canadiancutie514]

i never did it but then again i never noticed if they was sick

 

[chefjamesscott]

well I have 2 ways that I do this

first I get a plastic bag full of ice and a bit of water and in the fish goes I only do this to fish that are barely alive and almost gone after trying to get them to make it and they have passed the point of no return and the life has started to go from their eyes and is barely there.

For other fish that are really messed up but still alive to a great degree I use a kitchen sanitizer mixture that I have made up kills them instantly.

Though I can count on one hand the fish I have had to kill myself as I prefer to try to get them to recover. My male bleekeri small spot was looking real bad but after a week of doing all I could for it, it righted itself in the water and came back to life but it sure looked touch an go for a few days.

 

[cguarino30]

Many times, just a quick blow to the back of the head, job done. It's not a nice thing to do but sometimes needed. I'd rather do it that see a fish or animal suffer.

agreed, blunt trauma (while a bit gruesome) is probably the quickest, and least painful way to do it. If you don't have the stomach for that, I recommend putting the fish in a cup of water in the freezer and allowing them to succumb to hypothermia.

Though I can count on one hand the fish I have had to kill myself as I prefer to try to get them to recover. My male bleekeri small spot was looking real bad but after a week of doing all I could for it, it righted itself in the water and came back to life but it sure looked touch an go for a few days.

Also an excellent point, it's best not to assume that a fish is done for until the end is really near, I remember a large goldfish I once had that found his way out of the tank one day and was almost completely dry when I found him, but after a week of tlc, he was almost perfectly fine (except for some skin issues, which cleared up after a month) and he lived for a few years after that.

 

[Basskeeper]

okay, so i have two largemouth bass, and one is looking iffy, like swimming backwards all the time and laying over with his tail curled around when he isn't moving. the other bass is getting extremely aggressive towards the sickly bass. the bream in the tank is fine, and the crawfish are laying upside down on the bottom of the tank (spawning i think) but the bass scares me. He has plenty of room, plenty of food, and i do 30% water change every sunday....