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I have two deformed angelfish fry. One of them I know I'm going to have to euthanize because it's not swimming good because its tail is elongated but the other only has a bent fin and it's not bent that much. What could I do with it? I'm going to be setting up a 55g soon so maybe it could live in there. Also what's the quickest and nicest way to euthanize the other fry? I've read it was clove oil in water but I don't know the water/oil ratio. Here's a picture of the one with the weird tail
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Thanks in advance.


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Euthanize both. In my opinion that is. If you have any large fish, I'd do a cycle of life thing and feed them to the larger fish. It's what I do with my culls.

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That's what I do with guppy fry because I don't have room for them. But the only other fish I have are the parents and guppies and the parents have been raising them. Do you have any other ideas?


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Freeze em, flush em, etc... I hear freezing is a very peaceful, humane way.

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Sry, but I honestly was just giving options. I keep enough bigger fish, I just feed them.

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I've freezer and flushed a few times.. just leave them in the freezer for 30 min..

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Don't freeze them, it is actually very painful. I do it to where I make the water right above freezing, around 40ish degrees, then I take the fish and put it straight from the tank to the cup, it goes into shock and doesn't feel a thing. If you freeze it, the blood crystallizes and the fish can feel it


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Don't freeze them, it is actually very painful. I do it to where I make the water right above freezing, around 40ish degrees, then I take the fish and put it straight from the tank to the cup, it goes into shock and doesn't feel a thing. If you freeze it, the blood crystallizes and the fish can feel it


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Purely speculation, how could anyone ever know that. I've plopped them into ice water and they just go to sleepies.. no thrashing no screams of excruciating pain.. just dead..

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Purely speculation, how could anyone ever know that. I've plopped them into ice water and they just go to sleepies.. no thrashing no screams of excruciating pain.. just dead..

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Agreed. There seems to be a No at every turn on this site.

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Well to be on the safe side I'll probably just almost freeze the water then put them in it. I don't want them to feel any pain whatsoever. Also the article said to decapitate them after, how would I do that with fry? They are still pretty small (from top to bottom fins they are smaller than a dime).


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I wouldn't think you need to worry abt decapitating them. I've actually never even heard of that actually being done by a hobbyist.

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If you have the stomach and want a.quick, clean departure? Wrap them in a paper towel and brown bag or news paper, make an x with a marker, grab a hammer or mallet of sorts. One firm whack and they're off to fishy heaven..

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Come on guys.. it's a legitimate, humane way to terminate a fish if it's quality of life is to far gone..

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I guess I've been crappie fishing too much as of late.

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