Neon Tetra Help

[Desy]

Hi all,
My boyfriend has 15 neon tetras that pretty much can't be saved. i know this is my first post, but i have read around for a long time about fish. Anyway, all the neons have fin rot, growths on their face, bent spines, pail, bloated....
I was wondering what i should do, no pet shop will take them and he can't look after them anymore due to illness.
Please help !!

 

[Questions?]

put them in a bowl filled with water and clove oil, it is the humanist way to eunthinize them, and it stops there suffering

 

[Desy]

where would i be able to get the clove oil? thanks for the reply as well

 

[fluttermoth]

You can get clove oil from most chemists; they sell it for toothache.

The lethal dosage is 20 drops per litre; you have to shake it up with a small amount of water to mix it (because it's an oil) before you add it to the container with the fish in.

Sorry you have to do such an unpleasant thing, but it's better than letting the fish suffer, if you're sure there's no chance of saving them.

 

[cambojnr]

You can get clove oil from most chemists; they sell it for toothache.

The lethal dosage is 20 drops per litre; you have to shake it up with a small amount of water to mix it (because it's an oil) before you add it to the container with the fish in.

Sorry you have to do such an unpleasant thing, but it's better than letting the fish suffer, if you're sure there's no chance of saving them.

I was tolf that clove oil is the wrong way, and that you get freezing cold water with alot of ice in, our freeze it for aabit till the top is frozen a abit, then break the sufrace, then leave it for 5 mins and put the fish in and they die within seconds as its so cold they go num quickly and then the shock kill them, my neon I had to put down was dead within about 2-5 seconds. and then you do not have to go searching for clove oil.

 

[Questions?]

thats cruel, it takes longer for them to freeze, clove oil puts them to sleep so they don;t suffer at all. if you shock them they suffer for about 2-5 seconds, its like you getting shot in the stomach and bleeding out

 

[cambojnr]

thats cruel, it takes longer for them to freeze, clove oil puts them to sleep so they don;t suffer at all. if you shock them they suffer for about 2-5 seconds, its like you getting shot in the stomach and bleeding out

give to me by WILDER who answers all questions in the fish emergency section. so I will go of what wilder says
Information written by steelhealr

This is what I choose to do with my fish and my comments are only placed here as opinion. This is a heated topic. I choose based on my knowledge from my training:

Oil of cloves is a topical anethestic and was used in the past to treat toothaches. Lidocaine (like at the dentist's office is a topical anesthetic as well). When we operate on people we really want to achieve 2 things, analgesia and anesthesia, that is, relief of pain and unconsciousness. IMO, when a fish is immersed in oil of cloves, it is essentially 'topically anesthetized', paralyzed, but, I am NOT convinced that the fish is unconscious.....none of us will really know for sure. We don't know if the oil of cloves causes stinging to the mucus membranes, eyes, etc on initial contact nor if the fish is motionless, painless but aware.

Extreme cold is an anesthetic. When applied to skin, you can actually cut the skin and feel no pain. Cold also can cause rapid unconsciousness. In fact, hypothermia is reported to cause a state of euphoria and clouding of consciousness. Fish, at least most of the types that we keep (tropical), are extremely small and rapid immersion in extreme cold water, in my opinion, causes rapid pain relief and rapid unconsciousness. I have never seen any of my fish shows signs of what I consider suffering. They stop moving immediately and appear lifeless. Some have stated that since fish are ectothermic, this doesn't apply....perhaps in cold water fish I would agree.

I choose to euthanize my fish this way, rather than oil of cloves. One must either make an educated decision for themselves, or, choose what is currently accepted by the masses as what is humane.

Added: although I would never use blunt force to euthanize my fish, nor advocate it, one fact is for sure: death is instantaneous

 

[PrairieSunflower]

I think different methods are important because all people don't have access to all methods in the moments they want them. My personal choice would be clove oil first for putting them to sleep followed by another chosen method to cause death.

 

[Questions?]

I think different methods are important because all people don't have access to all methods in the moments they want them. My personal choice would be clove oil first for putting them to sleep followed by another chosen method to cause death.

+1

also remember what those people said, it is all based on opinion, so my opinion is still clove oil

 

[Dazzler666]

I use iced water AND clove oil so hopefully by using both methods this will not cause my fish any discomfort.