My poor honey gourami need to be euthanized...

My honey gourami after have swim bladder issues start within the last 48 hours is laying on his side barely breathing in the hospital tank :'(

I have read clove oil it the most humane way but I don't have that and I cannot bring myself to kill it with blunt force. Are there any other humane ways? Otherwise my spouse is going to have to be the one to do the blunt force when he gets home.

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My spouse came home and did the hard part with blunt force. He said he hopes he doesn't have to do that again because he hated it as much as I did too

 

I'm sorry that you had to go through that. Just remember that you did him a kindness by ending his pain. Sending hugs your way.

Do you know what caused his troubles?

 

I'm sorry that you had to go through that. Just remember that you did him a kindness by ending his pain. Sending hugs your way.

Do you know what caused his troubles?

Thank you Janice! No I have no idea what caused the issue. He was fine one day and the next morning when I looked in the tank he was doing downward spirals after getting air and trying to swim back to the bottom, and then he would breathe heavily until he was good to go again. I had posted a video yesterday to see but it seems that it was an issue with his swim bladder. I moved him to the hospital tank since it was only a 10 gallon so he wouldn't have to swim to hard to get to the surface and back down to the bottom. This morning he was swimming around when his light was off, and this evening after work he was laying on the bottom barely breathing. Poor little guy

He took a massive turn for the worst. It sucks because I've only had him since February.

 

My honey gourami after have swim bladder issues start within the last 48 hours is laying on his side barely breathing in the hospital tank :'(

I have read clove oil it the most humane way but I don't have that and I cannot bring myself to kill it with blunt force. Are there any other humane ways? Otherwise my spouse is going to have to be the one to do the blunt force when he gets home.

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My spouse came home and did the hard part with blunt force. He said he hopes he doesn't have to do that again because he hated it as much as I did too

Sorry to hear that, it’s better for the animal to pass away quickly rather than suffer. I recently used the clove oil method to put down one of my old rainbow fish that stopped eating and was starving to death.

Even that was not easy seeing him die but it was better than enduring suffering.

If you do not want to go through that again I suggest keeping Shoaling fish instead as we humans get emotionally attached to centrepiece fish such as bettas, gouramis etc

 

Sorry to hear that, it’s better for the animal to pass away quickly rather than suffer. I recently used the clove oil method to put down one of my old rainbow fish that stopped eating and was starving to death.

Even that was not easy seeing him die but it was better than enduring suffering.

If you do not want to go through that again I suggest keeping Shoaling fish instead as we humans get emotionally attached to centrepiece fish such as bettas, gouramis etc

I agree it isn't easy but I rather him not suffer too. It was difficult to watch the spinning through the tank. I'm sorry you've recently been through this as well

I have 4 gourami left and the rest are shoaling fish. He was my first honey too and I did everything I could to make him happy from the beginning, but you're right, we do get attached to our centre piece fish more for sure.