What Do You Do With Dead Fish?

[rdp50734]

small ones go on the garden for birds or cats! Touch wood I have not lost a large one yet!

 

[Cossie333]

lol

 

[Truck]

Bin or toilet for me, I don't care if it goes down the thrown, as long as it's dead.

 

[Cossie333]

exactly do u think we would be alive if the poo and disease wasnt sorted out duhhh

 

[Jonty]

lol soz guys im just to tird and i dont know wat im doing atm really im drunk sorrygh for any inconviniancejend

And yet you entered your password just fine?

 

[OohFeeshy]

just flush it

Yes thank you, we heard your opinion the first twenty thousand times.

 

[Truck]

lol soz guys im just to tird and i dont know wat im doing atm really im drunk sorrygh for any inconviniancejend

And yet you entered your password just fine?

 

[Cossie333]

lol jst flush it jokes lol

 

[-Craig-]

For starters a big fish would prob smell in the bin, i would just flush a small fish and put a big fish in a plant pot.

 

[andywg]

Trust you to get involved...

I hate to disappoint

I never said it was a large risk, just 'non zero probability' which you can't say isn't true.

When taken to the extremes, nothing is impossible and nothing is certain, so you are correct, I would not disagree.

I'd imagine a dead fish would have a higher pathogen concentration than water, and a dead fish in the sewer is a target for rats which could carry it to other bodies of water. Or... something. It's hypothetical.

And, hypothetically, a dead fish on a tip could be picked up by a bird and be spread even further...hypothetically.

In the long run, I think the chance of anything serious happening is so slight on either count as to make no real difference (a bit like arguing the toss over a 0.00001% chance and a 0.00002% chance). Tropical pathogens tend to do worse in temperate climates, a bigger problem is usually the spread of temperate pathogens to more favourable tropical climes.

Do whatever you feel is right, just don't be surprised that someone else does it differently.

 

[Ethan040]

Ive only had one fish die on me so far and i flushed it down the toilet.

 

[OohFeeshy]

For starters a big fish would prob smell in the bin, i would just flush a small fish and put a big fish in a plant pot.

Nah, no worse than any other food you put in the bin. Fish is fish, whether it's a dead cichlid or that leftover salmon you didn't eat.

 

[three-fingers]

Trust you to get involved... I never said it was a large risk, just 'non zero probability' which you can't say isn't true. I'd imagine a dead fish would have a higher pathogen concentration than water, and a dead fish in the sewer is a target for rats which could carry it to other bodies of water. Or... something. It's hypothetical.

Exactly . I'd say the chances of pathogen causing bacteria being passed on by a fishes body are much higher than waste water due to both the fact that the fish most likely had some sort of pathogen from abroad (hence its dead), and the much higher concentration on the body.

I don't think anyones saying that not-flushing dead fish is going to eliminate the risk

But with the bin right there, and burying also an option (always makes me feel better burying fish, free "fish blood and bone" organic fertiliser for my plants ), I don't see why anyone would even want to flush?

It's just a stupidly easy precaution to take IMO, that protects our wildlife.

Like adding dechlorinator I guess...sure a lot of us know we don't need to, but I already have enough dechlorinator to last me yeeeeeeeears (and it's very cheap) and it's an extra safe-gaurd against anything going wrong when I do a rare water change...dont really have a good enough reason not to add it.

 

[andywg]

But with the bin right there, and burying also an option (always makes me feel better burying fish, free "fish blood and bone" organic fertiliser for my plants ), I don't see why anyone would even want to flush?

It's just a stupidly easy precaution to take IMO, that protects our wildlife.

Can you clarify my understanding here, please? From the way I am reading the above it appears there is a logical flaw in your thought process (but I may be wide of the mark).

It reads as if your solution to protect the wildlife is to take a potentially pathogen bearing non-native corpse and bury it straight into said wildlife where it can affect the soil and the water table rather than putting it into a pipe designed to carry some pretty nasty stuff to a treatment plant where it can be broken down and removed under controlled conditions.

As to not seeing why anyone would want to flush, I know that when I lived in a flat the last thing I wanted was a fishy smell hanging around the house until the day the bins went out. As someone who has now returned to the countryside I feel less secure about the environment by putting untreated non-native corpses into the ground rather than into a treatment system.

But to each their own.

 

[james_fish]

Eat them. Especially dalmation mollies... great dish.