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Re: KillieTalk Digest V2 #75





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>Date: Fri, 06 Mar 98 16:13:00 GMT
>From: "J.P.Haffegee -Julian Haffegee" <J.P.Haffegee at open_ac.uk>
>Subject: culling
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>     Someone (not sure who) was talking about culling fish- I read that you 
>can stick  in an alkaseltzer- (is that a brand name?) - one of those 
>indegestion tablets- the CO2 level rises- the fish gradually slips into a 
>coma and dies-

Gradually my foot!  I dropped an alkaseltzer into a 5 gallon bucket with 
a HUGE oscar and he was dead within 30 seconds.  There was a hellofalotof 
thrashing around for the first 20 seconds (seemed like a hour).  It was 
so tramatizing (to ME) I can still hear it (in my head) 17 years after 
doing it.  Quick - YES.  Humane - probably.  But man was it gross!

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