The Puffer Forum

After a nasty accident last night, i need to euthanaise sp. my f8 and need to know how much clove oil i need to use to ensure it deffinately does the job.
Thank you

Anyone have any ideas? or do i just leave him in there for ages?

are you sure there is nothing you can do?

what state is he in exactly.. ?

I dont know about clove oil, but i read this a while ago when i had to euthanize a tetra..

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/faustus/ni ... anasia.htm

I wouldn't be doing it if i didn't have to, a crab got hold of him last night and he has a hole into his head,back and gill, he is now just floating about unable to use his fin and tail and getting repeatedly stuck on the filter. i have now turned the filter off but i can not just sit here and watch him suffer

Wow, sorry to hear this. Thanks, though, for the somewhat indirect warning about crabs and puffers together.

As unfortunate as it is, a couple of drops will do the deed. I have only had to do this one time and it was very hard. I am sorry for your loss.

Sorry about the accident and your loss .

I am so sorry .

so sorry for your loss. its very distressing when you find a fish in that state.
I once had a ram that got pop eye and all the other fish in the tank started to eat him while he was alive. He couldnt swim around properly and had huge chunks taken out of him and all of his fins had been chewed off. I actually euthanised him using the freezing water method. He died within about 5 seconds of holding him under, but i found it incredibly distressing for the 5 seconds that he was struggling for

I hope you find the right answer for your poor pufferr

Thank you all for your kind words, Puffin is no longer suffering. I must admit tho that it was the hardest thing i have done with any of my fish. i have fed home bred feeders to my other puffer before and it didn't bother meat all but this, brought tears to my eyes and puffin will be missed greatly, he lived in my tank right next to my bed so was the first and last thing i saw every day.
Thank you all again.

I hope you get better soon. You did all you could.

sorry for your loss... What kind of crab?

I use an entire dropperful & after about 1/2 hour, freeze the fish. I thought we were working on an article on this for the Library at one time.

It was a red claw crab, originally there were 4 but over time puffin had eaten them, i guess this time he was either asleep or just got too close.

Try getting only females. They have 2 small claws.