I actually would just buy another tank and keep a euthanization tank. A 1 g tank at Wal-Mart is like $5...
clove oil remains
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knowy said:
I had to euthanize a neon for someone I know (that probably shouldn't be keeping fish if they can't do these things themselves). I simply scooped it up in a net, and slammed the net against the wall of the bathtub. Fish paste; and it was most assuredly as instant as death can come. It really only works on small fish, and if you don't hesitate.
Dove dish washing liquid sunds like a good idea as well, and it will rinse out. There are folks who use simple green for things that are greasy/oily in their aquariums. Ammonia also typically cuts grease, and of course we know it can be rinsed out. It doesn't matter what you use It matter how hard it is to get rinsed out. Dove rinses well, simple green rinses well, alchohol will evaporate and require little or no rinsing, ammonia rinses well. Any of these should cut Grease and oil quite well. My personal choice would be the alchohol largely because that is what I'm used to using.
As far as methods, they've all been discussed, heck there is even an article written in the articles forum about them. There isn't a method better than clove oil. There are a couple that are probably as good IMO, but none that are both easy one the fish and the fish keeper.
cleanup is the issue, and there are many good ways to clean oils out of a tank. So I don't see where someone who chooses to use clove oil has done anything that would constitute a poor choice at all.
Dave
As far as methods, they've all been discussed, heck there is even an article written in the articles forum about them. There isn't a method better than clove oil. There are a couple that are probably as good IMO, but none that are both easy one the fish and the fish keeper.
cleanup is the issue, and there are many good ways to clean oils out of a tank. So I don't see where someone who chooses to use clove oil has done anything that would constitute a poor choice at all.
Dave
friendorfoe,
It sounds as if you used clove oil in a plastic tank, it wouldn't have affected a glass tank in the same way
(it would wipe right off glass with a kitchen roll sheet, and it is purchased in glass bottles ) The bottom of the tank will never recover as the clove oil has reacted with the plastic of the tank.
Piece of useless information - essential oils are used as thinners for some organic varnishes used in violin making, therefore have some similar properties to Turps (also an essential oil - of turpentine, a type of pine tree) and would affect the surface of any plastic.
It sounds as if you used clove oil in a plastic tank, it wouldn't have affected a glass tank in the same way
(it would wipe right off glass with a kitchen roll sheet, and it is purchased in glass bottles ) The bottom of the tank will never recover as the clove oil has reacted with the plastic of the tank. Piece of useless information - essential oils are used as thinners for some organic varnishes used in violin making, therefore have some similar properties to Turps (also an essential oil - of turpentine, a type of pine tree) and would affect the surface of any plastic.
