Eww

[Tempestuousfury]

Just euthanized a female red wag. I took it out and attempted to lop off the head. Well, like all other attempts at euthansia, it didn't work.

Instead, I got a loud cracking sound, something I had never heard when I had to kill my neons.

Well, that's it.

 

[pondfreak4365]

Sorry you had to have that experience. It sounds like we need a moment of silence for the fish baby, followed by an hour of Mettalica to purge your brain of the memory of that sound.

Sorry about the fishie

 

[Tempestuousfury]

I'm not sad. Negligence on my part. Don't really care all that much, just disgusted by having to witness it.

 

[Erised]

Oh my, that sounds horrible You must be a very brave person, I'd not be able to do it Anyways, you saying "it didnt work" ... do I wanna know what you mean with that? You might wanna try letting them sleep in in some clove oil next time.

 

[Tempestuousfury]

Oh, I don't think it was very painful. What I meant was that it wasn't the cleanest of cuts, and I didn't sever the head. :dunno; I don't think it suffered too much.

 

[spAcE mOnkEy]

just wondering.... whats a wag? and why did you cut the head off of it?

 

[ad_smith]

i had to euthanize one of my mollies... but i but it in a bowl and threw a few disolvable headache tablets and hes just swam around and they eventually stopped and that was it... painless, also played a bit of radiohead - street spirit to set the mood

 

[Tempestuousfury]

Well, you'd think that freezing them would be considered a painless way to kill them, but the pinned article would beg to differ.

From my sources, the least painful and the surest way to kill the fish is to sever the head or puncture the brain.

As for why, her body was deformed, she was definitely very sick and old, and her tail had been chewed to the peduncle by finrot. not much I could have done, especially with the symptoms of swim bladder disorder that she was showing. Probably because I isolated her with that other female (that one died and I think this one was suffering from some of the same problems).

As for what a red wag is:
http/www.aquariumfish.net/images_01/gold..._platy_w360.jpg

 

[mwm]