>>I maintain a small mice colony just to have a source of live pinkies and fuzzies when I need them. It's starting to get to the point where I'm culling adults, and I hate, hate, hate cervical dislocation. Would placing a small bit of dry ice in a rubbermaid, and letting it dissolve (or splashing it with a bit of water to speed it along) be an effective and relatively humane way to euthanize the adults I don't need?
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>>Thanks

You can get a 20lb bottle of CO2 and some hose for P bucks or so.

I built a chamber with an old latchable sweater box. I also aquired a regulator to fill the chamber. After 5 minutes all will be dead.

20 lbs lasts me a few months.

You can get smaller bottles for paintball guns cheaper, but I use min for 40 or so animals a week.
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Jeremy Payne
JB Reptile

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0.2 Triple Het Moonglow "Kahl"
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0.1 DH Ghost
1.1 "Kahl" Albino
1.0.2 Hypomelenistic
1.3 Pastel Hypo
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