View Full Version : Euthanasia? I don't think I can!
My second white-tipped tetra, who had ich, is trying to die. The others are starting to bite at him. Someone...come euthanize it for me when my kids aren't looking! I just can't. :help:
Russy pelican
01-23-2007, 2:47 PM
Might help to give what city you are in!
But in all liklihood, it's a goner before anyone could get there. The tankmates are pretty much taking care of that for you. If by "trying to die" you mean losing the ability to maintain neutral bouancy and swim, simply putting it in a dark container of aquarium water for 24 hours should do it. The refridgerator will speed things up, too.
Sorry to hear about it, but just know it gets easier to put them out the longer you're in the hobby.
enrique4jc
01-23-2007, 2:48 PM
Too sad...but its going to be better to take care of it as soon as possible. Try the cold water method, It's not difficult, and essentially painless to the fish from what I understand.
Sorry about your troubles.
EDIT: Better to euthanize now than to let the fish suffer.
J double R
01-23-2007, 3:43 PM
Might help to give what city you are in!
But in all liklihood, it's a goner before anyone could get there. The tankmates are pretty much taking care of that for you. If by "trying to die" you mean losing the ability to maintain neutral bouancy and swim, simply putting it in a dark container of aquarium water for 24 hours should do it. The refridgerator will speed things up, too.
Sorry to hear about it, but just know it gets easier to put them out the longer you're in the hobby.
yet it gets harder the longer youve had the fish....
Daudzegier
01-23-2007, 3:46 PM
I take him out back, lay him on the driveway, and smash him with a rock when they get like that. Had a betta get dropsy once. Its what i ended up doing to him. The way I look at it, if you realy care about the fish, its the only way to do it. Instantly put him out of his misery by turning him in to post-fish pulp
wataugachicken
01-23-2007, 4:41 PM
don't put the fish in the fridge. either drop it into a bowl of almost frozen water, or smush it.
by the way, have you treated your tank for ich?
BucJason
01-23-2007, 4:59 PM
You don't have to euthanize him...just let him die as he would naturally , it won't take much longer.
It's part of being a fish, you get sick and die...in the wild it's even worse because thier are crabs to eat your eyes out while you're still alive or a predator to chomp on you and eat you alive...
I take him out back, lay him on the driveway, and smash him with a rock when they get like that. Had a betta get dropsy once. Its what i ended up doing to him. The way I look at it, if you realy care about the fish, its the only way to do it. Instantly put him out of his misery by turning him in to post-fish pulp
This sounds like Rambo :eek:
Can I call you Fish-bo? :joke:
don't put the fish in the fridge. either drop it into a bowl of almost frozen water, or smush it.
by the way, have you treated your tank for ich?
Smush?!?!?!?!?!?!?:thud: Sorry, no can do....
I took it out of the tank after I posted, and dropped it in ice water when the kids weren't around. We have one fish named Lazarus...'cuz he came back from what appeared to be a death state. Anything's possible. But the gourami was trying to eat his eyes, and I could not stand to see him suffer. Thanks for the help, folks....
Oh, and BTW, I did start treatment for ich yesterday. In fact, I posted here needing help.... But I made a separate thread as I thought this was a separate issue.
http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94827
Thanks for your concern.
cohazard
01-23-2007, 5:29 PM
don't put the fish in the fridge. either drop it into a bowl of almost frozen water, or smush it.
Heh, that reminds me of when I first started and I was losing fish to Ich because the salt treatment wasn't widely spread info yet, so if the fish looked bad, I'd put it in a ziploc and throw the bible at it, or a dictionary... depending on the fish's religious preference or lack thereof.
Heh, that reminds me of when I first started and I was losing fish to Ich because the salt treatment wasn't widely spread info yet, so if the fish looked bad, I'd put it in a ziploc and throw the bible at it, or a dictionary... depending on the fish's religious preference or lack thereof.
:dog: Some days I'm just glad I am not a fish.
cohazard
01-23-2007, 5:58 PM
:dog: Some days I'm just glad I am not a fish.
Heh, sorry my story was so blunt. :) (my humor is always dry btw lol)
Heh, sorry my story was so blunt. :) (my humor is always dry btw lol)
Mine too...just the thought was...uh...disgusting. West Covina, eh? My old stompin' grounds. You're probably my old lab partner from high school biology...the one who loved to smush things.... Bleck. :)
cblesz
01-24-2007, 10:40 AM
Hey SoCalSunset...since you live in West Covina...have you been to Goldfish Plus? If so, what do you think? The owner seemed to know quite a bit and was very helpful.
Forevernight
01-25-2007, 7:17 AM
I flushed my female paradise fish because she was slowly dying and was no longer able to keep herself bouyant. I hated to do it but it was dragging on for over a week getting progressively worst.
wataugachicken
01-25-2007, 12:02 PM
flushing and simply taking the fish out of water are the worst things you can do.
bettagurl
01-25-2007, 2:26 PM
I flushed my female paradise fish because she was slowly dying and was no longer able to keep herself bouyant. I hated to do it but it was dragging on for over a week getting progressively worst.
:eek:
thats a horrible way for anyhting to go...they have to breath all that waste in while they die pluse being spun in circles and banged into things cant be fun :(
Forevernight
01-25-2007, 8:11 PM
well i didnt want to take it outside a smash it with a rock or stomp it.:huh:
hendrixpujols11
01-25-2007, 8:15 PM
next time just switch the fish to an extreme temperature change. It shocks the body and kills it right away painlessly.
skeletonhand
01-25-2007, 8:16 PM
2 words. Garbage disposal!
cohazard
01-26-2007, 1:51 AM
Mine too...just the thought was...uh...disgusting. West Covina, eh? My old stompin' grounds. You're probably my old lab partner from high school biology...the one who loved to smush things.... Bleck. :)
What high school and what year? I never smushed stuff in bio class so prob not me. I went to West Covina High in 2000 as a freshman, then moved to a different city to finish high school. I'm back now though.
Hey SoCalSunset...since you live in West Covina...have you been to Goldfish Plus? If so, what do you think? The owner seemed to know quite a bit and was very helpful.
No I haven't actually... got an address?
Daudzegier
01-26-2007, 9:51 AM
I'd put it in a ziploc and throw the bible at it, or a dictionary... depending on the fish's religious preference or lack thereof.
What about the Torah, Koran, or I Ching?? For all those Jewish, Islam, and Taoist fish.
cblesz
01-26-2007, 12:50 PM
No I haven't actually... got an address?
Not sure of the address, but it is in the Ralph's shopping center on Grand.
What high school and what year?
Sorry, I am too concerned about internet privacy to reveal that online. Let's just say we didn't see each other there...and I am a wee bit older. (If you ever go to the Northwoods Inn, have some cheesebread for me...hmmmmmmmmm.) It's good that you weren't my old lab partner...he was a bit scary. (Like sociopathic?)