What Do You Do With Your Dead Fish?

[SPLiSH]

I bury them in the garden. I get so attatched to all my fish and since we live next to a state forest it's a nice back-to-nature burial!

 

[rEvolution27]

Well since i live in a scarsly populated area surrounded by trees, it it's a guppy i just chuck it as far as i can and te birds do te rest. Bigger fis, i bury.....

OFF TOPIC: Evan, the carribean must really be a paradise! You catch your own aquarium fish, harvest aquarium plants in the nearby river, and is surrounded by lots and lots of trees!!!!

Makes me wanna take a vacation over there 8)


Ok, back to the topic: chuck em in the bin.

lol.. did you ever think it was otherwise? well apart from poverty and crime.. but those things you only see in town. Hopefully we don't get killed by the toursim industry like alot of places have. But seriously come down here sometime, come visit st.lucia and i'll tell you all the coolest places to go.

well i never knew guppies were considered anything ore than trash in an aquarium because wild guppies live in the gutters down here, that's one thing that amazed me

anyway back on topic

 

[james1971]

When some of my neons died I intended to just flush them but my daughter got wind of my plan and had a fit. She insisted on my giving them a proper burial in the garden.

James1971

 

[Swart Skaap]

My Mom makes regular trips to St Lucia and St Martin (sp). In fact the whole of the caribbean!

Shes a skipper. i think these pics are a few from St Lucia:

 

[Fella]

Bury them usually. The garden is rubbish, so they're dotted all over the house in pot plants. The other housemates don't know though...

 

[Durbkat]

Neither - wrap'em and bin'em them.

Flussing is generally thought not to be a good idea - spreading potential disease and all that.

Spreading diseases to what? People go to the bathroom and flush it down the toilet so I doubt that flushing a dead fish would do anything and we don't drink the toliet water so its nothing to worry about.

I flush all my fish but if my angels die when they are big or if my common pleco dies they won't fit down the toliet so I suppose I would throw them in the trash since I don't have a back yard since I live in an apartment.

 

[beux]

I put them in a plastic bag and put them in the bin. But the only fish I had die on me were some penguin tetras I bought a few weeks back and they all died within two days of whitespot...never had a fish die that I was attached to.

 

[clareriley]

I put them in a plastic bag and put them in the bin. But the only fish I had die on me were some penguin tetras I bought a few weeks back and they all died within two days of whitespot...never had a fish die that I was attached to.

I seem them penguin tetras in my lfs.. what are they like? do they act like other small tetras

 

[rEvolution27]

My Mom makes regular trips to St Lucia and St Martin (sp). In fact the whole of the caribbean!

YES YES YES! that's my homeland! What a coincidence... wow

 

[PlecMama]

It sounds so horrible, but it depends on whether I had any feelings for it, if it was just a random fish in the tank/s, I just put it in the bin, if it was something I liked or that had a nice personality, I take it and bury it.

I hate myself now I have thought about that, no one fish is more deserving of a decent burial then another

 

[Littlelady]

I'm a soppy softie too Wrapped in tissue, then in a match box or equivalent according to size and they get buried in the garden...

 

[rEvolution27]

I'm a soppy softie too Wrapped in tissue, then in a match box or equivalent according to size and they get buried in the garden...

I hate burials though.... i think my favourite method would be cremation... not that i have favourite methods of dispose in of dead fish

 

[Synirr]

Eat 'em.

Yep.

Little ones get flushed, I've only ever had one too big for the toilet and I just threw him over the fence into our pasture for the ants and birds... When my larger fish die (midas hybrid and oscar), which hopefully won't be for a long time, they'll get a proper burial

Durbkat -- Stuff doesn't just disappear when you flush it. Unless you have a septic tank like we do (living way out in the country and all that,) toilet water goes into the sewer and then it has to go out somewhere.... usually to a lake or the ocean, which of course are full of fish. Logic. Personally I think the risk when flushing a fish is minimal though. I mean, how often do you hear on the news of entire lakes being wiped out by ich?? Aquatic diseases are already preexisting in open water.

 

[fishboytoo]

I don't believe that sewage goes straight into waterways. I know that here it must go to a processing facility where through various methods it is purified. The end result being a pile of solid gunk that goes to a landfill and pure drinkable water. I don't know what the laws are like in other countries though. I think it should be illegal to dispose of sewage into waterways.
I also find it highly doubtful that the small amount of bacteria or parasite that you may introduce would have ANY effect at all when mixed in with the vast quantity of biological soup that is sewage. Just my educated opinion.

BTW, I flush 'em or return to them to the LFS for credit