go back to the store and return the fish, if they won't accept it then go to the proper authorities and tell them that the LFS sells illegal fish
stuck with a fish!?!
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kill the fish, freeze it, inform your LFS about the situation, ask for a refund and if they refuse just say you will need to call fish and wildlife to ask them what to do with it, and that you will need to tell them where you got it from.
Freezing is the best way as it works and you don't see it happen.
See
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/FA150
from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida for "Fish Slaughter, Killing, and Euthanasia: A Review of Major Published U.S. Guidance Documents and General Considerations of Methods"
by Roy P.E. Yanong, Kathleen H. Hartman, Craig A. Watson, Jeffrey E. Hill, B. Denise Petty, and Ruth Francis-Floy
See
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/FA150
from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Florida for "Fish Slaughter, Killing, and Euthanasia: A Review of Major Published U.S. Guidance Documents and General Considerations of Methods"
by Roy P.E. Yanong, Kathleen H. Hartman, Craig A. Watson, Jeffrey E. Hill, B. Denise Petty, and Ruth Francis-Floy
throw it hard against the floor it dies instantly it does not even know what hit it, I think its a lot less cruel then freezing it which can take awhile. Just make sure you throw it hard enough.
i wouldn't kill it, you liked it before you knew he was a snakehead right? i'd keep it it's a cool fish that you can't find everyday. it's not like the fed's are gonna bust in your door, they have bigger fish to fry. no pun intended.
Wulfonce;2992782; said:I have herd that freezing is actually very painful for the fish as ice crystals can form on the skin minuets before its actually dead. Unless you held the fish underwater some how so its skin would never be exposed to the air.
If I'm not mistaken, the most humane way to do it is to basically get a container full of ice and water, allow that container to chill in the freezer until it's about 33F (just above freezing and thus still liquid) take the fish directly out of its heated tank where it'd been living at normal tropical temps, and then drop the fish directly into that container. The fish inhales the cooled H2O directly into its gills, it causes immediate cardiac arrest. The process is quick, painless, and mess free.
hypothetically if it was me
i would shut my face. no one would know i had it.
again only hypothetically
i would shut my face. no one would know i had it.
again only hypothetically
