help fish upside down - Page 2

mthead · 09-05-2007, 23:20

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Originally Posted by jackyalex

changing some of the water seems to have helped,he's belly down for now,must have been lack of oxygen,thanks all

Sorry,but I think Scooby-doo has give him a shock into uprighting himself

jackyalex · 09-05-2007, 23:21

the black 1 is a bottom feeder but the big 1 eats all the food so i have to put alot of food in hence the big fish

jackyalex · 09-05-2007, 23:23

lol scooby doo wouldnt shock him,all you have to do is walk into the kitchen and the fish blows bubbles onto the side of the tank and you can hear them popping,hes a really greedy fish

slinky · 09-05-2007, 23:27

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Originally Posted by mthead

Sorry,but I think Scooby-doo has give him a shock into uprighting himself

OMG lmao.....I wondered what you meant then til I spotted scooby doo.....it's like a game of " where's wally Now " lmao....that made me laugh.

jackyalex · 09-05-2007, 23:32

i have my own scooby doo

davo69 · 10-05-2007, 06:57

same fish as me i have two

davo69 · 10-05-2007, 06:58

flashytart was selling a good tank

WillowTheWhisp · 10-05-2007, 07:24

Don't blow 'air' into the tank through a straw. That is your outgoing air and not oxygen rich. You've absorbed your oxygen from it when it was your incoming air.

Mick · 10-05-2007, 07:26

well the obvious thing to do is turn the tank over then it will be the right way up

mez had a fish that would swim upside down it had a damaged swim bladder

Ber999T · 10-05-2007, 07:30

There will still be 16% Oxygen (O2) in the expired air as the human body only burn off about 4% of the 21% that is in normal air, there would be a slight increase in the amount of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) within the water but the blowing through a straw should help but still need to get new pump.

WillowTheWhisp · 10-05-2007, 07:32

Oooh I stand corrected Ber. My Dad used to tell me not to add CO2 to already Oxygen depleted water.

Ber999T · 10-05-2007, 07:39

Any oxygen is better than none willow, as in the use of Mouth-to-Mouth (with a barrier now a days) is better than none at all but if your still not happy to do that the advice is to just do chest compressions and leave breathing until help arrives. Cant do much on fish so sorry for thread wander there

WillowTheWhisp · 10-05-2007, 08:44

for a minute there I was imagining chest compression on a fish!

Neil · 10-05-2007, 09:52

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Don't blow 'air' into the tank through a straw. That is your outgoing air and not oxygen rich. You've absorbed your oxygen from it when it was your incoming air.

There is still plenty of oxygen in your exhaled air, that's how CPR works, if there was no oxygen in your breath what would be the point of blowing it into someone's lungs. I can't remember the % but you only absorb some of the oxygen in the air you breath.

Next time I will read all the thread before commenting, I did not notice our local paramedic had said the same as me

Ber999T · 10-05-2007, 11:06

tis OK! Neil I too sometimes jump in and then read through and find that the answer is there LOL