Humane way of killing...?

[Tanyoberu]

Like me, my wife is an animal lover both great and small. I had to show her that fish eating fish was not as painful and gruesome as she might have imagined and it was just one gulp and then they were gone. But there is one animal she does not like me feeding to my fish... earth worms !

Since I have brackish tanks, the worms do a major death dance in the saline waters before the fish decide to pounce on them. She feels that the worms suffer too much just before their death and that they would not be found near these waters naturally, so I am being inhumane.

We are nearing the time when the earthworms will be abundant again and I am forced to find a humane way of killing earthworms. Please help my FISH!

 

[paOol]

simple. feed them when your wife is not around.

 

[fishnutham]

freeze them eathworms will go simply go to sleep as the temp drops and its a dirt nap for sure keep them in the fridge first slows them down so they adjust to the cold faster its about as humane as you can get

 

[jenBLKAROWANA]

That's just crazy!!! lol I agree with fishnutham, that would be the best way to do it....

Jen

 

[neoprodigy]

what fish? try market shrimps?

 

[ewurm]

Oh brother.

 

[neoprodigy]

pour bleach over them. good way to clean up other unwanted stuff too. talking about dual purpose.

 

[DeLgAdO]

Like me, my wife is an animal lover both great and small. I had to show her that fish eating fish was not as painful and gruesome as she might have imagined and it was just one gulp and then they were gone. But there is one animal she does not like me feeding to my fish... earth worms !

Since I have brackish tanks, the worms do a major death dance in the saline waters before the fish decide to pounce on them. She feels that the worms suffer too much just before their death and that they would not be found near these waters naturally, so I am being inhumane.

We are nearing the time when the earthworms will be abundant again and I am forced to find a humane way of killing earthworms. Please help my FISH!

ummm on that first part...........is not as simple as a simple gulp........most fish are crushed to death by the tooth plates in there throat

or memebers of the arowana family use there bony tounge to crush there prey against the roof of the mouth, something like that........

 

[DeLgAdO]

freeze them eathworms will go simply go to sleep as the temp drops and its a dirt nap for sure keep them in the fridge first slows them down so they adjust to the cold faster its about as humane as you can get

he's right

 

[DeLgAdO]

pour bleach over them. good way to clean up other unwanted stuff too. talking about dual purpose.

screw cooking, ill try that on my steak next time!!