fish euthanasia

On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 10:14:21 -0700, Andy Hill
wrote:

"HK_Newbie" wrote:
... my main question is the
best way to go about "ending" it for him. I realize how stupid this might
sound, but I rather liked this fish and have had him in my pond for three
years so I want to do this as quickly as I can. Any opinions?

Years ago, I bought a small bottle of MS-222 / Finquel / Tricaine
Methanesulfonate (a fish anesthetic) for this purpose. Knock the fish out
using the "sleep" dose, then add a large overdose to finish the job. Kind of
expensive up front (around $50, IIRC), but I figure I'm going to be dead and
gone before I use up the one bottle I have, and I like to know I'm not botching
the job.

There is nothing worse than an inefficient kill. Several years ago I
helped a friend of mine kill a goat to cook for the 4th of July.
Because of inefficiencies, the kill took 45 minutes. Although the
goat tasted good, I believe the experience did detract from the
flavor.

"Bill Oertell" wrote in message
...
Well...the deed's done now, but my vote would have been for a small amount
of
water and a blender. Ought to be real quick, plus you can use the mixture
for
fertalizer later.



I haven't had to put a fish down yet.......

I don't recon I could do it......

But it would have to be the quicket I recon...........

"The Drunken Lord" wrote in message
...

We have apparently been infested with losers from rec.ponds.

And lets guess, you are the upstanding drunken mullet of the aquaria NG's?
--
"In the beginning, God said the four-dimensional divergence of an
antisymmetric,
second rank tensor equals zero, and there was Light , and it was good."

Its been awhile since i posted to rec.ponds as it seems for the most
part to be there are a few selective little bunch of idealists with
their own concepts on how "ponding" should be...and everything else is
either flamed or filtered........I would think after this post of how
to efectively and quickly kill a fish that the pond bitch" Nedras"
filter is going to be pretty darn well max'ed out with new names to
plonk........
My method would have been cut its head off or just stick in a plactic
bag with some Budweiser.........

Y'all have a great day.............that is except for Nedra, I hope
her f**king pond freezes into a giant ice block along with her in it.
Nedra the Ice Queen of rec.ponds...............
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I had no input whatsoever.
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"Roy" wrote in message
...
Y'all have a great day.............that is except for Nedra, I hope
her f**king pond freezes into a giant ice block along with her in it.
Nedra the Ice Queen of rec.ponds...............
Visit my website: http://www.frugalmachinist.com
Opinions expressed are those of my wife,
I had no input whatsoever.
Remove "nospam" from email addy.

Hey, did I miss a flame war or something between you and Nedra, damn, I
always miss the juicy stuff :|
In defense of Nedra, I think she's a sweetie pie who probably would'nt harm
a hair on your head. Sometimes in e-mail communications things get a tad
misconstrued, perhaps this is what happened to you. Keeping grudges causes
cancer, i would let it go if I were you .

HAVE A NICE WEEKEND PORGERS. (I'm off to go scouring the local waterways for
South African Marsilea, wish me luck
--
"In the beginning, God said the four-dimensional divergence of an
antisymmetric,
second rank tensor equals zero, and there was Light , and it was good."

Bill Oertell wrote:

Well...the deed's done now, but my vote would have been for a small
amount of water and a blender. Ought to be real quick, plus you can
use the mixture for fertalizer later.

That approach, while I agree is probably extremely fast, suffers from
one severe problem - your wife killing you for using her blender that
way.


--
Eric Schreiber
www.ericschreiber.com

"Roy" wrote in message
...

Its been awhile since i posted to rec.ponds as it seems for the most
part to be there are a few selective little bunch of idealists with
their own concepts on how "ponding" should be...and everything else is
either flamed or filtered........I would think after this post of how
to efectively and quickly kill a fish that the pond bitch" Nedras"
filter is going to be pretty darn well max'ed out with new names to
plonk........
My method would have been cut its head off or just stick in a plactic
bag with some Budweiser.........

Y'all have a great day.............that is except for Nedra, I hope
her f**king pond freezes into a giant ice block along with her in it.
Nedra the Ice Queen of rec.ponds...............
Visit my website: http://www.frugalmachinist.com
Opinions expressed are those of my wife,
I had no input whatsoever.
Remove "nospam" from email addy.

Don't be shy Roy, say what you mean ;-)

Peter

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 11:52:04 +0200, "Happy'Cam'per" wrote:

"The Drunken Lord" wrote in message
.. .

We have apparently been infested with losers from rec.ponds.

And lets guess, you are the upstanding drunken mullet of the aquaria NG's?

Yes, sometimes I take a drink but it does not interfere with the care
I take of my fish or the enthusiasm I feel for aquaria.

The Drunken Lord wrote:

On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 06:33:46 -0600, "Eric Schreiber" eric at
ericschreiber dot com wrote:

Steve Barker wrote:

How about peeling out on him with the car?
Flushing down the commode?
Drop in a bucket of bleach?
just some ideas off the top.

None of which were any good.

We have apparently been infested with losers from rec.ponds.

Funny, that sort of crap never shows up in rec.ponds, must be one of yours.
It's just the typical difference between an alt. group and a rec. group.
--
derek

Roy wrote:

My method would have been cut its head off or just stick in a plactic
bag with some Budweiser.........

Aha! Finally, a use for Budweiser.
--
derek