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Offline JeffroM

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I plugged up my toilet
« on: February 27, 2013, 08:13:34 PM »
So I flushed a fish that was apparently too large to be flushed.   :o

What does everyone do with their large dead fish?
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Re: I plugged up my toilet
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2013, 08:16:57 PM »
Fertilize the garden.

Offline jamarini

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Re: I plugged up my toilet
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2013, 08:44:51 PM »
Burying dead fish, especially large specimens, either for fertilizing outdoor plants or to just recycle the nutrients naturally, isn't a bad idea but it's obviously tougher to do when they die in the middle of winter.  I have buried dead fish in the Springtime around rose bushes.  They take time to break down so the effect is not immediate but they do seem to help.  Just one word of caution from experience... bury 'em deep enough the neighbors' dogs don't try to dig 'em up! :P

This time of year it's probably easier to wrap the dead fish in old newspaper and put it in the trash.

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Re: I plugged up my toilet
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2013, 09:00:26 PM »
put them in a ziploc or fish bag (tied shut) and freeze them.  Put them out with the trash on garbage day.

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Re: I plugged up my toilet
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2013, 09:17:17 PM »
Ziploc and garbage when it's frozen out---plant food in the warmer months.

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Re: I plugged up my toilet
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2013, 09:26:12 PM »
Neighbors mail box...

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Re: I plugged up my toilet
« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2013, 09:42:22 PM »
Seriously?  Turkey food! 

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Re: I plugged up my toilet
« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2013, 09:52:20 PM »
put them in a ziploc or fish bag (tied shut) and freeze them.  Put them out with the trash on garbage day.
In the winter I do this minus the freezer part, in the summer I will put them in a bag and in the garbage can and set it next to the fence of the neighbor that drives me nuts in the summer, and since the winds come from the west= Perfection LOL
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Re: I plugged up my toilet
« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2013, 10:16:54 PM »
Seriously?  Turkey food!
LOL. That was my first thought!

If it's not frozen, into the compost pile. If it's winter, I freeze them in a plastic bag and hopefully remember to include them for the next trash day. I'll admit, a couple times I've found a strange bag while cleaning the chest freezer out and it's got a frozen fish in it.  :o
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Re: I plugged up my toilet
« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2013, 10:20:44 PM »
put them in a ziploc or fish bag (tied shut) and freeze them.  Put them out with the trash on garbage day.

quite dignified  :'(
I do the same except freezing them

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Re: I plugged up my toilet
« Reply #10 on: February 27, 2013, 10:43:29 PM »
Seriously?  Turkey food!
LOL. That was my first thought!

If it's not frozen, into the compost pile. If it's winter, I freeze them in a plastic bag and hopefully remember to include them for the next trash day. I'll admit, a couple times I've found a strange bag while cleaning the chest freezer out and it's got a frozen fish in it.  :o
LMAO!  I have a female Herichthys Cazones in my freezer.  It's been dead for about a year.
But, here's the kicker....  it died while I was living at my old place.  Yes, her frozen corpse made the move with me.

Ask Linux what I do with my dead. He's seen it firsthand. ;)
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Re: I plugged up my toilet
« Reply #11 on: February 28, 2013, 10:23:50 AM »
I wrap the expired fish and discard in the trash outside....if the fireplace is going....well.... ::)
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Re: I plugged up my toilet
« Reply #12 on: February 28, 2013, 02:53:22 PM »
I hope the garbageman never looks in our garbage. Depending on the time of the year they'll find deceased squirrels, chickens, or deer parts. :P Only one small fish casualty so far.
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Re: I plugged up my toilet
« Reply #13 on: February 28, 2013, 10:06:40 PM »
Doesn't matter the time of year to me. I throw it out the basement window and assume the raccoons or possums eat them. (I live in a tri-level slightly in the country. )
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Re: I plugged up my toilet
« Reply #14 on: March 01, 2013, 06:35:48 AM »
Doesn't matter the time of year to me. I throw it out the basement window and assume the raccoons or possums eat them. (I live in a tri-level slightly in the country. )


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