Botched Euthanizing

[RadMax8]

Clove oil is my choice. I use an old cottage cheese container as my final swimming place. I put tank water in, add the clove oil, shake it up, then try to catch the poor guy. I put the fish in, put the lid on, and leave it alone for an hour or so. Then I dump the body outside in a flower bed to be used as fertilizer. I've successfully used this method many times in the past year or so.

I would imagine the method for smashing the fish would be somewhat stressful for the fish and myself.

 

[MonkeyMonk86]

If I understand this article correctly, I think if the clove oil was mixed with vodka 1st, then it would mix fine in the water. Is that what it's saying???
https://www.louisiana.edu/sites/research/files/NeifferFishSedation.pdf

"Clove oil is a mixture of compounds: phenolic eugenol (which accounts for 85-95% of the active ingredients), isoeugenol, and methyleugenol. Commercially available clove oil has approximately 84% eugenol, but it is possible to purchase 100% eugenol. Aqui-STM contains primarily isoeugenol (Iversen et al. 2003; Kildea et al. 2004) and is not available in the United States. Clove oil and eugenol are incompletely water soluble, particularly at cold temperatures. A 1:10 mix- ture of either in 95% ethanol yields a 100 mg/ml stock solu- tion (Harms 2003)."


(Friend of Bill W., One day at a time)