How To Dispose Of Fish?

[XeroTolerance]

Hello everybody. I am currently cycling my 10 gallon tank. I will be stocking it with 5 Flame Tetras, 1 Ghost Shrimp, and 2 Mystery Snails. As you know fish die. Its sad but we need to get rid of their corpse for the good of the tank. So when I stock my tank with the Tetras they will die ultimately ( not soon hopefully ). This leads up to my question. What do I do? Do I flush the diseased fish down the toilet? I'm new to this so I'm not sure what the protocol is.

Thanks in advance .

 

[StandbySetting]

No, put them in the bin.

 

[Sweeden]

What is wrong with a toilet

 

[XeroTolerance]

StandbySetting

What bin?

Sweeden

I'm not sure if they will fit or if they get stuck in the tube or what not.

 

[swanseastilo]

Id rather Flush them. Dont fancy having rotten fish in a bin for nearly 2 weeks (they only collect rubbish every 2 weeks here)

 

[StandbySetting]

Your waste bin, I presume you have one in Sweden, where a truck comes round and picks up bags of waste?

You shouldn't flush them as disease can find its way into native water ways.

Putting a fish in the bin is no different to putting food in the bin, just put it in a plastic big, tie it up and put it in the bin.

 

[Amunet]

If you don't want to flush or put it in to the trashcan, then how about just burying it outside.
Or, if your trash doesn't get picked up often, put the dead fish in to a ziplock and freeze it until it's trash pickup day.

 

[STEWARDSONS]

my gold nugget is still in the plant pot in the garden, me and the little boy cant face digging a hole in the flower bed for it yet

 

[XeroTolerance]

I may just put it in its own trash bag and put it in the bin . Or flush it....

 

[Fishy friend2]

Toss it in the yard that's what I do

 

[XeroTolerance]

my gold nugget is still in the plant pot in the garden, me and the little boy cant face digging a hole in the flower bed for it yet

Sorry for your loss...

 

[swanseastilo]

Your waste bin, I presume you have one in Sweden, where a truck comes round and picks up bags of waste?

You shouldn't flush them as disease can find its way into native water ways.

Putting a fish in the bin is no different to putting food in the bin, just put it in a plastic big, tie it up and put it in the bin.

Its not that easy here.

Cats love the bags around here

Amd the bags are collected every 2 weeks.

No way in hell am i keeping bags in the house.

 

[soybean]

My mate tried to flush a large dead plec years ago. A month later they had to get a plumber in to get it out the U-bend. The smell was ...incredible. Bit bigger than a tetra, but I still don't like the idea of them rotting in the pipes. Wrap them in tissue and put them in the bin. Or bury them, if you're sentimental

 

[XeroTolerance]

Your waste bin, I presume you have one in Sweden, where a truck comes round and picks up bags of waste?

You shouldn't flush them as disease can find its way into native water ways.

Putting a fish in the bin is no different to putting food in the bin, just put it in a plastic big, tie it up and put it in the bin.

Its not that easy here.

Cats love the bags around here

Amd the bags are collected every 2 weeks.

No way in hell am i keeping bags in the house.

In that case the toilet is good for you. My trash gets picked up every week.

My mate tried to flush a large dead plec years ago. A month later they had to get a plumber in to get it out the U-bend. The smell was ...incredible. Bit bigger than a tetra, but I still don't like the idea of them rotting in the pipes. Wrap them in tissue and put them in the bin. Or bury them, if you're sentimental

Exactly what I am afraid of...


I never thought I would get this many replies so fast .

 

[StandbySetting]

Its not that easy here.

Cats love the bags around here

Amd the bags are collected every 2 weeks.

No way in hell am i keeping bags in the house.

Do you not have a bin you put your filled rubbish bags in? Put it in there.