> At 08:31 PM 5/18/97 -0600, you wrote:
> >When it comes to the humane treatment of the animal (a subject a lot of you
> >believe in) what is best?? Swimming in a mildly toxic "ocean", getting you
> >side scraped and some stinging solution applied to the open wound or just
> >being put out of the misery and being saved of being our little project and
> >going through the torture we call treatment....
> >I will pass on the torture. No criticism intended.
> The trifasciata I treated is otherwise well and healthy, and still swimming
> around in his own tank, eating and growing as if nothing has happened.
Having just seen a giant danio linger for literally weeks, unable to
swim correctly, probably being eaten alive from the inside out by some
bacterial disease, I'd say that being treated is probably a good option
for most organisms.
They will hold onto life as long as possible. Even in situations and
circumstances that turn your stomach.
Ultimately, I decided that the kindest thing was to destroy the danio.
That is a call that everyone who is responsible for animals has to make on
their own.
Craig