frozen fish?!?

[TKOS]

As was mentioned, unless a creature has some sort of protection for the inside of its cells, the freezing process (especially a slow one like a house hold freezer), will cause irrepairable damage to the creatures cells and thus kill it. I use freezing to euthanize my fish and they never come back to life when they are defrosted.

There is a reason that you have to use supercold liquids like liquid nitrogen for doing cryogenics. It is to avoid the creation of sharp crystals in the cells. Being air cooled will not cut it.

 

[tlaug]

I want to try this with my wife's cat. I think I will start eating the ice cream and then clean out the rest of the freezer. How much space do you think I will need its a big cat? How much water? :joke:

 

[abby]

we watched a video in enviromental science today about a kind of toad and a kind of scorpion that can freeze and then unfreeze and be just fine. so if you feel like freezing an animal, get an alpine scorpion.

 

[ashdavid]

See my post earlier.

 

[zazz]

My neighbor's beloved iguana just died. Do you think if we freeze it REaLLY fast.....?

 

[asd159263]

one of my neighbors has one of those old half wiskey barels with goldfish init. In the winter is freezes to a solid block of ice, with they fish inside. It has been 3 years and he still has not changed his stock...

 

[mvigor]

:argue: B.S. Like others have said...in every case where the fish have "frozen solid and lived to swim again" there had to have been some liquid water at the bottom of the container/pond.