What's the best way to euthanize a fish?
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hoosierpat
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Whack it against the wall. It is instant, and since it is instant the pain can only be momentary. I've done it literally hundreds of times and I've probably only had a half dozen that didn't die immediately and they were all big fish, and incidentally almost all puffers. Just put it in a net, wind up, and smack it against a hard wall.
I think baking soda or baking powder works too but I can't remember which one or the dosage.
I think baking soda or baking powder works too but I can't remember which one or the dosage.
spider86
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I found the study. Looks like any way you do it, they will not feel it? I may try the oil.
Fish - small brains, no pain
February 10 2003
By Rajeev Syal
London
Anglers rest easy. Fish cannot feel pain, the largest study into piscine neurology has found.
An academic study comparing the nervous systems and responses of fish and mammals has found that their brains are not sufficiently developed to allow them to sense pain or fear.
The study is the work of James D. Rose, a professor of zoology and physiology at the University of Wyoming.
He has examined data concerning animals and their responses to pain and stimulus from scores of studies collected over the past 15 years. His report, published in the American academic journal Reviews of Fisheries Science, has concluded that awareness of pain depends on functions of regions of the cerebral cortex which fish do not possess.
Professor Rose, 60, said previous studies that had indicated fish can feel pain had confused "nociception" - responding to a threatening stimulus - with feeling pain.
"Pain is predicated on awareness," he said. "The key issue is the distinction between nociception and pain. A person who is anaesthetised in an operating theatre will still respond physically to an external stimulus, but he or she will not feel pain. Anyone who has seen a chicken with its head cut off will know that, while its body can respond to stimuli, it cannot be feeling pain."
Despite the new findings, a spokesman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which has spent millions on an anti-angling campaign, said: "Of course animals can feel pain. They have sensitivity, if only to avoid predators."
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Fish - small brains, no pain
February 10 2003
By Rajeev Syal
London
Anglers rest easy. Fish cannot feel pain, the largest study into piscine neurology has found.
An academic study comparing the nervous systems and responses of fish and mammals has found that their brains are not sufficiently developed to allow them to sense pain or fear.
The study is the work of James D. Rose, a professor of zoology and physiology at the University of Wyoming.
He has examined data concerning animals and their responses to pain and stimulus from scores of studies collected over the past 15 years. His report, published in the American academic journal Reviews of Fisheries Science, has concluded that awareness of pain depends on functions of regions of the cerebral cortex which fish do not possess.
Professor Rose, 60, said previous studies that had indicated fish can feel pain had confused "nociception" - responding to a threatening stimulus - with feeling pain.
"Pain is predicated on awareness," he said. "The key issue is the distinction between nociception and pain. A person who is anaesthetised in an operating theatre will still respond physically to an external stimulus, but he or she will not feel pain. Anyone who has seen a chicken with its head cut off will know that, while its body can respond to stimuli, it cannot be feeling pain."
Despite the new findings, a spokesman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which has spent millions on an anti-angling campaign, said: "Of course animals can feel pain. They have sensitivity, if only to avoid predators."
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badazztealcobra
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I say just flush him or feed him to something and call it a day.
We finally caught the little bastard damsel out of my brothers nanocube today... We just brought him to MRS and left him there....
Hopefully he ends up in the tank with the mantis shrimp. :lol:
We finally caught the little bastard damsel out of my brothers nanocube today... We just brought him to MRS and left him there....
Hopefully he ends up in the tank with the mantis shrimp. :lol:
spider86
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:hammer:
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12588288#post12588288 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by badazztealcobra
I say just flush him or feed him to something and call it a day.
We finally caught the little bastard damsel out of my brothers nanocube today... We just brought him to MRS and left him there....
Hopefully he ends up in the tank with the mantis shrimp. :lol:
:lolspin:
Musho3210
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Bullet to the head, considering how fast a bullet goes (faster than your arm winding up and smashing on an object) and how the bullet will probably obliterate the fish (if its not that big) and how it will probably destroy the brain instantaneously, i dont see how it isnt humane.
Only problem is obtaining one and being able to shoot in a legal area with all the safety rules followed.
Im sure fish feel stress (maybe not pain) when out of the water, and since you need to take it out of the water to put it on a cutting board flopping around, just put it in a shallow ziplock bag with water, aim, fire, its like shooting fish in a barrel.
Only problem is obtaining one and being able to shoot in a legal area with all the safety rules followed.
Im sure fish feel stress (maybe not pain) when out of the water, and since you need to take it out of the water to put it on a cutting board flopping around, just put it in a shallow ziplock bag with water, aim, fire, its like shooting fish in a barrel.
wld1783
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I agree with a bullet to the head. A 150 gr .308 cal bullet at 2750 fps would deliver close to 2800 foot pounds of energy to a 2 ounce fish. Nemo wont feel a thing.
However bullets contain some lead and guns are only for angry church folk. This solution is politically incorrect.
If it were me...4th of july is comming and an M-80 firecraker in a bucket is always fun...happens every year
However bullets contain some lead and guns are only for angry church folk. This solution is politically incorrect.
If it were me...4th of july is comming and an M-80 firecraker in a bucket is always fun...happens every year
weluvfish54
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is the flushing down the toilet method too outdated?
TangWhisperer
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Wow. 3 pages and not one person knows about MS-222. How sad.
Pufferpunk
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I have that in the form of Finquel but use it for tranqing puffers that need their teeth trimmed. Still use clove oil for death.
Pufferpunk
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Puffers??? Why has this guy had to euthanize hundreds of fish anyway?<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12588522#post12588522 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by spider86
Where do you get hundreds of puffers to smash against a wall from?
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