Guppy Trouble.

[Jaivansh Bhatt]

The quickest way to euthanise a small fish is to wrap it in a couple of paper towels and whack it on the head with something hard and solid (hammer). If you can't do that, put it in a small container of aquarium water and pop it in the freezer. Leave until frozen solid then bury the ice block in the garden.

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You can use salt or Praziquantel to treat fish for gill flukes. Praziquantel also treats tapeworm.

Use 4 heaped tablespoons of salt for every 20 litres of tank water. Keep salt levels up for 4 weeks. Then dilute it out.

or

Treat with Praziquantel once a week for 4 weeks. Do a 75% water change and gravel clean the substrate 24-48 hours after each treatment.

Pheww, will go the freezer option ‍. Thank you Colin. Will do the treatment before I move anything in or out of that tank.

 

[Essjay]

Please do not put a live fish in the freezer.

Please read this before euthanising any fish.

Painful fish deaths? You might be guilty!

Painful fish deaths? You might be guilty!

www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk

 

[Colin_T]

If you only have a small amount of water, it gets cold quickly and the fish becomes unconscious, and dies when it gets too cold.

 

[JuiceBox52]

If you only have a small amount of water, it gets cold quickly and the fish becomes unconscious, and dies when it gets too cold.

That's what I thought too. In humans and other mammals at least once we get cold quickly we fall asleep and die