hell on wheels

So I'm reading a book about Marine Invertebrates. I was reading the section on snails, about how they are the most abused animal in this hobby, because of lack of knowledge, and treatment. Of course my LFS when they sold me the 3 turbo snails that I have told me to just 'dump them in' they will do fine. Well I did just put them in, not dump, but just put them in. They did survive, no ill affects from that. I have no intentions of getting rid of them, since they do a great job on my tank. With that said finally here is the question.

The book says, if you want to get rid of a snail to do it humainly. Ok I agree, but it says the humain way is to put it in a bag in the freezer???? How is this humain. Seems totaly opposite of humain to me. I was just looking for a little clarification on this. Has anyone heard of this before?

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chadf

Never heard of it. Why not try and return it for store credit? (not saying to you, in general) I agree they are an abused animal, most lfs say to just float and drop. They actually need to be drip acclimated longer and slower than fish do. I don't know what a humane way would be, I'll just let mine go naturally.

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unclejed

Unclejed here, haven't heard of it before but does make sense in the fact that for humans drowning (once the person accepts their fate and lets go) and freezing to death are said to be the most (I hate to even say this) pleasant ways to go. I'm not sure a snail "feels" on a level close to us but I guess the hypothosis is valid.

OldSchool

Sorry to bring back an old thread, but I just wanted to answer this as I see it was never answered.

The reason we should put our livestock in the freezer to euthanize them is that there metabolism slows down and there body slowly dies without pain and suffering. There have been many studies on this and it can be proven that when you euthanize a fish in this manner that the fish is found frozen in a natural position, rather then curled up from pain.

People ask why you would euthanize any livestock, well sometimes it is quite obvious when some of our livestock gets ill and we know they are not going to be able to get better that rather then letting them suffer until death, or flushing them down the toilet, why not let them die in a peaceful way by slowly having there body shutdown?

This is why the freezer method is always recommended.