CONFESSION! I FLUSH FISH!

[RDTigger]

A bottle of clove oil or a brick is all it takes to kill them quickly before flushing. Is that really too much trouble?

ORLY! :hypnotized:

 

[kevinb120]

Well I agree on most parts, but at least make sure the fish is dead first! Besides, I've been researching the intelligence of fish and research shows that the majority of fish are at least as smart as most mammals. It'd be like flushing a cat down the toilet.

NO WAY!


My cats would clog up the toilet something awful :irked:

 

[angyles]

Being 'merican you probably don't know this, but the Daily Mail (or Daily Heil as it's also known owing to its support in the 30s for Moseley's fascists) is about as credible as a reporter of science as the World Weekly News. Put it another way, if they posted that grass was green I'd stick my head out of the window to check.

Actually, most of us do realize that here in the states too LOLOL. As soon as I saw the link, I literally burst out laughing.

I always opt for clove oil, but here's something I'm wondering. Let's say you do flush a fish down the toilet, how long do you think it lives? It's got a major temp change, chlorine, chloramine, probably ammonia, nitrites and astronomical levels of nitrates....wouldn't the fish pretty much die of shock relatively instantly anyway?

 

[Lab_Rat]

Okay...lets not get too excited now.

Things are not always perfect in the real world..heck...ask Reefscape...he faces it minute by minute. :naughty:

A lot of us(you) stretch the truth a bit me thinks.

You want great fish but complain about paying more than $2 for one.

You don't want to bother with a QT, then gripe your butts off when you add fish and others die.

You buy the fish first, "because it was pretty", then ask for help because you have no clue on how to take care of it properly.

Your first blame is to put it all on the LFS that sold it to you or info you got from some one else.

Then you complain you can't take it back.

Or you can't "humanely" put it down. Even though "humane" treatment doesn't apply to aquatic life.

End result, they become feeders.....they die in the inappropriate conditions you provided for them...or you do what 90% of folks do..you flush them.

Happens all the time. But I do have a lot of fishies that eat others..but all sick ones get the flush.

At the inexpensive price of fish, meds are just to expensive as is the wasted time to diagnose their issues.

Wait, I'm confused...am I supposed to read this with a sarcasm tag or not??? Originally I did and am frustrated with many of the same complaints. But I would never flush a live fish (I hope you were joking), in the rare situations I've had to euth I've done it with clove oil then the freezer. If you have a good idea what antibiotic or antifungal to treat with, I'd treat a $2 fish with $10 worth of meds. I don't agree with throwing every abx at the fish because you have no idea what's wrong. All that does is help induce abx resistance, the last thing we need.

My $2 fish get the same treatment/care as my expensive fish (well, expensive for me, EBJDs are the most expensive I have right now).

 

[Inka4040]

Methinks someone is trying to "pull a kaz"


Also, if that's not a thing yet, it is now!

 

[Reefscape]

I dont flush fish. I actually superglue them together to make pretty artwork and designs...

 

[countrychick]

Just like you did with the flys........ I dont flush fish, they go into the freezer then the compost or the garbage pail.

I dont flush fish. I actually superglue them together to make pretty artwork and designs...

 

[excuzzzeme]

Have you ever tried to flush a full grown Oscar? It takes alot of flushing to get that sucker down the bowl! :rofl:

 

[tekonus]

I've flushed sick fish. Usually the smaller schoolers like rasboras where I see one getting sickly but they rest look fine... It's a $2 fish and no its not the most humane way to do it, but keeping it in a 4 foot tank where it can never escape from isn't that much more humane anyways, is it?

 

[petluvr]

Actually, most of us do realize that here in the states too LOLOL. As soon as I saw the link, I literally burst out laughing.

I always opt for clove oil, but here's something I'm wondering. Let's say you do flush a fish down the toilet, how long do you think it lives? It's got a major temp change, chlorine, chloramine, probably ammonia, nitrites and astronomical levels of nitrates....wouldn't the fish pretty much die of shock relatively instantly anyway?

I have to agree here, as soon as the fish hits the septic I would guess it is automatic death.