Dick wrote:

I have had several fish with the floatation problem. One lived about
a year. Talk about "will to live." I could not just kill them, I
respected their struggles.

dick


Again, to each his own... When I see one of my fish obviously in
distress or oncoming disease I take quick action and end it's life
quickly. I do this for two reasons mainly. The first being I don't want
the disease to spread to other fish, and the second because I'd rather
end the suffering than watch the struggle.

I also think it's unnatural to allow a crippled or sick fish to
struggle on. In the wild, when one shows signs of weakness, it quickly
becomes food for a larger fish or other predator. We have the ablility
to prolong this maybe painful struggle for days, or even a year or
more. When we do that, are we doing it for our benefit or the fishes?

steve