1 of my clowns has become paper thin,i tried hand feeding to no help,ive noticed he dont make clicking noise when trying to eat where as he used to a few months back,and other four clowns make really loud click like tank cracking,so its like hes teath have gone!,anyway he is now 95% dead he still breaths but just lying not responding like he is suffering,i cant bare to see him like this,i want to help him on hes way but i dont know if i can,i dont want him to suffer for days until he goes.
Thin Clown Loach Almost Dead,help
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Noahs ark6
Fish Herder
this might seem brutal but you'll have to do it to put it out of its missery, get it out of the tank, put it in a bag (or two) and stamp on it or use a brick.
The best method is to use clove oil.
Put the fish in a litre of tank water. In a small bottle, mix at least 25 or 30 drops of clove oil with a little of the water and shake until it forms an emulsion.
Then you just add it to the fishes container; the fish will become unconscious within 20 seconds and will be dead within a minute. I'd just leave it there for half an hour or so, just to make 100% sure.
Obviously if the fish is bigger, you need to multiply the amounts, but 25/30 drops per litre is the lethal dose.
Put the fish in a litre of tank water. In a small bottle, mix at least 25 or 30 drops of clove oil with a little of the water and shake until it forms an emulsion.
Then you just add it to the fishes container; the fish will become unconscious within 20 seconds and will be dead within a minute. I'd just leave it there for half an hour or so, just to make 100% sure.
Obviously if the fish is bigger, you need to multiply the amounts, but 25/30 drops per litre is the lethal dose.
You can get it from a chemist (people use it for toothache) or online; I know it might not be of much use right now, but it might be a useful thing to know for the future in case you or anyone else is in a similar situation 
Wouldnt the ice cold water job do it,ive done that with a tetra before but not anything bigger,this clown is 3" long and paper thin,i dont get it cos he was fine 6 month ago,anyway would ice water work,i think ill give him the night to pass on his own and if not ill help him,ill post before i do anything.
PLEASE BE WARY READING THIS IF YOU ARE OF A SENSITVE DISPOSITION!!!!!
Ice cold water will 'do the job' but not as swiftly or as painlessly as people like to think.
Way back in the 1960s, my mum had two mice called Bertie and Bertha, and they had babies. 16 babies. My mum was told that Bertha wouldn't be able to raise them all and the best thing to do was put some 'to sleep' by dropping them into a bucket of ice cold water from height; they were supposed to go into shock and die almost instantly; just as people say happens with fish.
This did not happen; the baby mice (and they were one day old mice; if you've ever seen a new-born rodent, you'll know how undeveloped and helpless they were) still swam about for ages until my mum ran indoors and got her dad to come out and kill them outright.
I grew up knowing that story, and that is why I will never, ever trust the ice cold water/freezer method of euthanasia in fish.
Sorry if this is upsetting for people, but I think it needs to be said; it's all to easy to stick a fish in a freezer where you can't see it and pretend you're doing the humane thing.
Ice cold water will 'do the job' but not as swiftly or as painlessly as people like to think.
Way back in the 1960s, my mum had two mice called Bertie and Bertha, and they had babies. 16 babies. My mum was told that Bertha wouldn't be able to raise them all and the best thing to do was put some 'to sleep' by dropping them into a bucket of ice cold water from height; they were supposed to go into shock and die almost instantly; just as people say happens with fish.
This did not happen; the baby mice (and they were one day old mice; if you've ever seen a new-born rodent, you'll know how undeveloped and helpless they were) still swam about for ages until my mum ran indoors and got her dad to come out and kill them outright.
I grew up knowing that story, and that is why I will never, ever trust the ice cold water/freezer method of euthanasia in fish.
Sorry if this is upsetting for people, but I think it needs to be said; it's all to easy to stick a fish in a freezer where you can't see it and pretend you're doing the humane thing.
Poor fishy 
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