What do you do with your deceased fish?

[Gonzo74]

Most of the time I can’t find the dead fish. My CUC takes care of that before I find out.

 

[Sdot]

I’m very curious as to how everyone handles their deceased fish. Do you bury, cremate, flush, toss in the trash, etc? I have personally done all of the above. When I taught 5th grade we all gathered in the classroom bathroom to say our goodbyes to our betta fish. One child even wrote a eulogy. It’s a very funny story. I’ve buried fish in check boxes. When I was in college in Plattsburgh, NY I had a blood parrot that was too big to flush and the ground was frozen so we cremated him in the back yard. It was more like a BBQ but we tried. My least favorite is just tossing the fish in the trash. I always feel terrible when I do that. What do you all do?

I feed mine to my sea anemone. If i find them.

 

[Beau_B]

I buried the last one in a house plant. Probably wouldn’t be advisable with large species!

 

[Pickwun]

Well I've always flushed, but I've never had a large fish such as a unicorn tang die. That would stop up a toliet without question. Lol

$15000 for the aquarium, $35 for the toilet. Once you pass a certain age those priorities shift.

 

[fish farmer]

I've done many of these over the years...

Small pirahna that jumped....dried out, clear coated and mounted on a cork.

Larger pirahna I tried taxidermy.

Octopus and small skate....encased in lucite.

Arowana, tossed outside........the cat brought it back partially eaten.

I've flushed plenty.

I have a Pet Cemetery now...so when the 13 year old clowns go..they will probably get buried.

If I kept big fish I would possibly do Japanese gyotaku printing.

 

[fishguy242]

i still have a pair of horses from the 90's dipped 4x in polyurathane in plastic case all 3 of my kids have taken to show and tell ages 32 20 18 lol but true

 

[Sailingeric]

 

[Claire Austin]

Viking funeral. Toss ‘me in the wood stove.

 

[el aguila]

I feed my dead fish to my chickens.

 

[madweazl]

Toilet if I find 'em.

 

[themcnertney]

I recently relocated my tank to my basement. The move didn’t go well. I lost vlamingi tang, yellow tang and magnificent fox face. They ranged from 4-10”. It was tough. Looking back on it, I would’ve done it differently but I threw them in the trash.

 

[Ernie C]

I feed them to my large bubble coral.

 

[reefiniteasy]

I recently relocated my tank to my basement. The move didn’t go well. I lost vlamingi tang, yellow tang and magnificent fox face. They ranged from 4-10”. It was tough. Looking back on it, I would’ve done it differently but I threw them in the trash.

Thats awful! Sorry you had to go through that.

 

[Crabby48]

Taxidermist

I was wondering if anyone has actually done that.

Should have kept that girlfriend around. Started to think she was odd. If I only knew I was going to have a reef tank I would have stayed.

 

[SimplyVibing]

I have a bad one.... usually I bury my fish if I find them during the day, but if it’s night out I may flush them.

I did have a betta with dropsy once though, that I knew I couldn’t cure.... he was still alive but I wanted to end his suffering. Way to attached to cut off his head or club him, and I didn’t have any clove oil.

So, burial/death by garbage disposal I cried so much

 

[code4]

I have buried them, tossed them, put them in plastic and have them to my daughter to stuff. She is a wildlife biologist. Strange child sometimes. But now I have 0490345 on the mountain. Little let cemetery of my own.

 

[54Dutchman]

Dog food

 

[html]

It was strange but most of my fishes just disapired no body or parts found unless i find it right when it dies, I suspect my crab was too hungry

 

[Ken Ooi]

I buried mine in the soil but before doing so took a photo of it.

 

[NanoBoxes]

The last 3 that have passed for me I found them relatively quickly, so I fed them to my Maxi-mini Anemone....circle of life! They were obviously smaller fish.