Urgent help needed please!

imsati · Post by **imsati** » 27 Dec 2006, 02:00

Hello eve3ryone. I wish my first post was about something happier, but unfortunately...

I've two moderate-sized Tiger Shovelnose that are on the verge of death. If possible, I'd like to mercy kill them rather than have them suffer. I've search the web and can't find any information on this.

Does anyone know how I can do it very quickly and painlessly for them? It's tearing me apart inside watching them writhe and convulse.

thanks

--jay

imsati · Post by **imsati** » 27 Dec 2006, 02:25

thanks for viewing. They just passed.

my pride and joy was obtained at roughly 1 1/2 inch long and roughly 1/4 inch wide. ToD was 9:20 pm and he was 16 inches long and 2.5 inches wide.

Bas Pels · Post by **Bas Pels** » 27 Dec 2006, 08:22

On a Dutch forum a vet in school posted a lengthy article about killing fishes painlessly.

The fridge is amongst the worst solutions, contrarily to popular beliefs.

Good solutions: a blow on the head, a knife (well placed, behind the gills) and poisening with clove oil, - benzocain or 2-phenoxy-ethanol

As I dio have good kitchenknives, and no such tchemicals, I use the knive. However, I'm glad it seldomly happens

Source (for those who can read Dutch):http://www.nvcweb.nl/viewtopic.php?t=1271