how to kill a dying fish?

[markietan]

my sailfin tang got stuck onto the overflow box yesterday night and this morning when i finally rescued it, it's in pretty bad shape. its still alive / breathing weakly now, but its on its side and it has been like that for hours.. i dun think it'll ever be bounce back to good health and i would like to end its misery...

found this article online on how to humanly euthanize your fish...

http://www.ratemyfishtank.com/articles/81

which method do u recommend?

[MachoMarlin]

my sailfin tang got stuck onto the overflow box yesterday night and this morning when i finally rescued it, it's in pretty bad shape. its still alive / breathing weakly now, but its on its side and it has been like that for hours.. i dun think it'll ever be bounce back to good health and i would like to end its misery...

found this article online on how to humanly euthanize your fish...

http://www.ratemyfishtank.com/articles/81

which method do u recommend?

Very real and heart wrenching question!

My style is to slowly add bags of ice ice into the small container with the fish to chill the water to slow down it's Metabolism rate, and let it hibernate before adding more ice to chill it out to death. Fish are cold blooded, will not be as susceptible to temperature 'shock' as mammals.

Last time I did it was on my 2ft Redtail catfish three months ago, which for no apparent reason was found floating around, dying over the night!