What do you do with your deceased fish?

[krash7172]

Small fish = food for large tank critters per above. Option 2 is garbage disposer.

 

[Camaro Show Corals]

burry all fish fresh and salt. I had my 13 inch black ghost knife pass in November. Had him for about 7 years. We put him a shoe box lined with tissues and buried it.

 

[ca1ore]

I never thought about just tossing it outside for animals to eat. I like that!

I have a big back yard and a bum throwing shoulder .... when I do occasionally retrieve a floater from the tank, fish lands short of the fence and the dog ends up parading around with the corpse in her mouth. Not good ......

 

[carmodpg]

I flush unless they are too big or my kids are around. In that case, it goes into a plastic bag and intro the trash can (outside of course)

 

[SoaringFish]

I usually flush a fish if I don’t have much attachment to it, I’d prefer to bury all of them but living in an apartment complex I feel I’d get a few looks if I’m out trying to bury something in a small patch of grass.

 

[fishguy242]

I usually flush a fish if I don’t have much attachment to it, I’d prefer to bury all of them but living in an apartment complex I feel I’d get a few looks if I’m out trying to bury something in a small patch of grass.

lol welcome to the reef

 

[vetteguy53081]

If small - flush
If larger- freeze and discard on garbage day

 

[LetItReef]

Our boys buried it:

 

[redwayjay]

Too expensive so i fry it up and eat them.....

Isn't that also known as cremation? Just saying....

 

[Bfragale]

Feed them to the nem

 

[Goodair]

Sell to a blind kid for 2x what you paid for!

 

[Biokabe]

Back in my apartment-dwelling days, put them in a ziploc bag until trash day, then into the trash. Now that I have my own home, they become fertilizer for the garden. Expensive fertilizer, but fertilizer nonetheless.

 

[Jagg]

Taxidermist

 

[reefiniteasy]

Taxidermist

I was wondering if anyone has actually done that.

 

[ScottR]

I feed small ones to my scoly.

And what do you do with your bristleworms? Feed them to the gulls?

 

[ScottR]

I Pet Sematary them.

 

[Victor_C3]

Most of the time, I never even find dead fish. My CUC finds them first and everything is gone before I notice the fish is gone.

 

[vetteguy53081]

 

[Vinman]

I had an oscar that lived 9 years and was close to 8 lbs when I buried him. He had a lot of personality.

 

[Hemmdog]

And what do you do with your bristleworms? Feed them to the gulls?

You know me too well!