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[ringsandcoffee]

I probably should have done it a while ago, but I finally put poor Jane the betta out of her misery. She's had a tumor for a couple of months now. She still swims up when I feed her, but she looked terrible. I hated to do it, but then again, why make her suffer.

I may not get a new betta until after I get back from CA. Unless tomorrow I suddenly NEED another one...

It's pouring out. Been raining for 2 days now. This is just strange for Arizona. Ok, not, but rain this consistent for more than a day at a time makes me forget where I live.

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[bowiechaser.livejournal.com]

wondering which method you chose to use?

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

Flushed her.

[bowiechaser.livejournal.com]

Alive?
For future reference, it is more kind to put them in a small covered bowl of her tank water, and then put them into the freezer. Like humans, they get colder and colder until their body goes into hypothermia and they die. It's more humane than flushing.

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

I'm not seeing how slowly freezing to death is preferable. Plus, it's a fish.

[bowiechaser.livejournal.com]

Ah. Well, getting colder and going to sleep, essentially, versus the burning of the gills from the tap water and the waste that they wind up in. Acid to the gills, essentially.

The most painless and swiftest would be to get them into a baggie and slam their heads against the counter...but I personally can't do that. Yuck.

As for it being "a fish", I'm thinking you know they've got more personality than "just" being a fish. It's just an opinion, but I think they deserve as gentle a death as possible if we have anything to do with it. :)