Euthanasia of your fish

Subject: Euthanasia of your fish Sat Apr 26, 2008 5:46 pm

Euthanasia is a very difficult and usually hotly debated topic. I'm curios to know what others do and what there opinion is on the different methods, such as freezing and the use of clove oil. Since I may have to do something to end the suffering of one of my favorite fish, I have done some reading and at this point I'm swayed toward the use of clove oil.

Clove Oil. You use clove oil to anesthetize fish. You anesthetize them first with the clover oil, at this point you can use vodka to kill them or a strong concentration of clove oil will kill them. There is one other method to anesthetize using Tricaine Methanesulfonate, but the clover oil is more accessible, you can get Tricaine Methanesulfonate on line.
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Subject: Re: Euthanasia of your fish Sat Apr 26, 2008 8:50 pm

I have done that before on one of my Whiptail catfish. I just put it in a bucket, then put in concentrated clove oil, then I poured in a little bit of dish soap to finish the job.
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Subject: Re: Euthanasia of your fish Sun Apr 27, 2008 5:38 pm

Well I had to euthanasias one of my favorite fish today, I always ask my self if I should wait you know maybe the fish will get better. I new he wouldn't and too me this is better than letting him die in pain and discomfort. I used the clove oil and vodka method and in the future will again. Neutral

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Subject: Re: Euthanasia of your fish Sun Apr 27, 2008 6:42 pm

Sorry to hear about your loss, celtic. Was it your gourami?
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Subject: Re: Euthanasia of your fish Mon Apr 28, 2008 6:17 pm

I have never even put a lot of thought into this, I just let nature take it's course. I guess it would be no different than any of our other pets we wouldn't let them suffer.

Sorry to hear you lost one of your favorite fish.

Subject: Re: Euthanasia of your fish Wed Apr 30, 2008 4:36 pm

i used to do that clove oil trick... but now if they're untreatable i just throw them into the monitor's tank and she eats them up quick...

i know it's brutal... but i have way to many fish to bust out with the clove oil and bucket...

Subject: Re: Euthanasia of your fish Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:23 pm

We all do what we have to and hell if you can feed your monitor's why not.
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