what do you do with your (dead) fish.

[auntiebuttons]

We was in Ireland when 5 fish died. My MIL was feeding/looking after them. I wanted to bury them in the back garden, but I think she chucked them in our communal dustbin

 

[eudielynn]

We have a little area in our back yard where our pets are laid to rest. Jericho, my betta who died Friday is there now. I wrapped him in paper towel, then put him in a plastic bag and put him in a little Altoids tin so the cat wouldn't smell him and dig him up. He is at rest between my hubby's red-boned hound and my silky terrier.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Welll...
I have a little stone crypt i made a couple years back when one of my hamsters died of old age and due to it having loads of space inside i also put my fish in it; when a fish dies i wrap it in bum roll then put it in a little box with some fish flakes for the afterlife in the box and somthing else nice i can find at hand.
I then decorate the box and put it infront of my incense burner for a day with incense burning and then put the box in the crypt and job done.
I know all this may sound realy weird to you guys and is probably quite strange considering im 20yrs now, but i feel although you may not believe in an afterlife or whatever, the fish might, and i feel its only proper to give it a decent burial after being a friend to you for so long- doesn't feel right just dumping it in the trash can.
Of course i only do this to fish that i've had for some months at least etc.

 

[chishnfips]

bin em.

But here is a good idea. You could fill them with baking soda and then feed them to the seaguls and then watch the blow up. sama:


ok thats a bit extreme.

 

[andywg]

I flush them.

Think about all the treatment that sewer water goes through before it can get back into the water table (UK that is). Think of what else goes down the dunny, and the huge treatment plants. I doubt a flushed, dead fish will cause any trouble.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

I flush them.

Think about all the treatment that sewer water goes through before it can get back into the water table (UK that is). Think of what else goes down the dunny, and the huge treatment plants. I doubt a flushed, dead fish will cause any trouble.

You'd be suprised, a heck of a lot of bacteria does survive and what you don't want is the desease your fish died off spreading to other habitats for example.

 

[SPLiSH]

You'd be suprised, a heck of a lot of bacteria does survive and what you don't want is the desease your fish died off spreading to other habitats for example.

Yeah, to quote from Finding Nemo: 'The Porcelain express.... everything thst goes down there ends up in the ocean.' So:

Dead fish --> Toilet --> Ocean --> Possibly eaten by other fish --> Other fish (eg. tuna) caught for food --> Our plates.

I don't particularly want to eat someones deceased pet, especially since it may have died of something nasty....

 

[mm_simb]

Dead fish --> Toilet --> Ocean --> Possibly eaten by other fish --> Other fish (eg. tuna) caught for food --> Our plates.

I don't particularly want to eat someones deceased pet, especially since it may have died of something nasty....

I was wondering, if EVERYTHING that goes into the toilet comes out in the ocean (or any water source for that matter) doesn't that mean that our waste also goes there. Of course I'm sure a fish wouldn't be eating our waste but wouldn't they live in it and wouldn't that affect them in some way?
Maybe I just answered my own question...

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Yep some fish do eat our waste; i know that the harbor where my grans lives near 's mud is rather dogdey...im not sure what they are called but there's these giant fish that live in the harbor and they eat the "mud"...

 

[SPLiSH]

Yep some fish do eat our waste; i know that the harbor where my grans lives near 's mud is rather dogdey...im not sure what they are called but there's these giant fish that live in the harbor and they eat the "mud"...

Those fish are probably carp, looking for worms in the erm, mud...

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Yep some fish do eat our waste; i know that the harbor where my grans lives near 's mud is rather dogdey...im not sure what they are called but there's these giant fish that live in the harbor and they eat the "mud"...

Those fish are probably carp, looking for worms in the erm, mud...

Lol, "hey mum, this fish taste kinda...nutty"
Thing is there are actually people who try to catch these fish all day, but would you want to eat somthing thats eaten and and lived off your...well, you know?

 

[Trevelyn1015]

i throw them in the grass to feed ants and birds...