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when i have a dieing fish i don't beliven killing the fish by flush. is this wrong. i wait for the fish to die then get rid of it, but i have this thing that i can't seem to flush a still living fish.

Chris, nobody should EVER flush a living fish.

There is an on-going debate about whether to kill the fish humanely or wait for it to die of natural causes, but flushing a living fish is totally inhumane and therefore completely unacceptable.

whack it on the head with a brick. Seriously, fastest way to let them go

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whack it on the head with a brick. Seriously, fastest way to let them go

Chris don't feel bad, I have the same problem, and mine tend to pass fairly fast when it is time...I just can't hurt them...then again I had a really hard time putting my cat down last January, even though I know it was for the best --Heidi



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"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

Flushing dying, yet still living, fish is cruel. So you don't need to worry about anything there.

I have only euthanized one fish before, a sick cardinal tetra at the LFS. It had some sort of bacterial thing, and we knew that we had to get it out of there before it spread. When I scooped it out of the water, it didn't struggle or try to avoid the net or anything, because it was really sick. So I just laid it on the counter and quickly decapitated it with a razor blade, and then disposed of it. I felt kind of bad, but I knew that oftentimes when one fish gets a bacterial infection it will often wipe out that whole shipment if nothing is done in time.

Luckly we didn't lose anymore cardinals from that batch...

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