george wrote:

If the fish is floating on it's side and no remedies are helping it,
it is certainly not going to last very long out of water.

Perhaps, perhaps not. That's irrelevant. If the goal is to minimize the
suffering of the animal, then the best solution is to kill it
immediately, not to let it die relatively slowly in open air.


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Eric Schreiber
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