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jackyalex

09-05-2007 22:13

help fish upside down

my fish is swimming upside down and i dont know why,yesterday morning i noticed that the pump has stopped working,could this be the problem ? i have to get a new pump tommorrow anyway,but i dont know if this is the cause,we have 2 coldwater fish in the tank but only 1 is swimming upside down,

slinky

09-05-2007 22:14

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Originally Posted by jackyalex (Post 422040)

that is fishy :rolleyes:

sorry .......... :D

maybe not enough oxygen in the tank.:confused:

jackyalex

09-05-2007 22:19

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i knew you'd take the micky,im gonna get a staw and blow some air in the tank dont know what else to do,i'd have to do some cpr if he died,kyle would be gutted

mthead

09-05-2007 22:21

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Originally Posted by jackyalex (Post 422040)

Ever thought it may be an Australian Fish?????:)

slinky

09-05-2007 22:21

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Originally Posted by jackyalex (Post 422049)

i knew you'd take the micky,im gonna get a staw and blow some air in the tank dont know what else to do,i'd have to do some cpr if he died,kyle would be gutted

Try putting clean water in a washing up bowl and putting them in that over night until you get a pump. the clean water will have oxygen in...enough for over night.

davo69

09-05-2007 22:24

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slinky good advise or change 60 percent of water in tank

slinky

09-05-2007 22:25

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Originally Posted by davo69 (Post 422060)

slinky good advise or change 60 percent of water in tank

yes that should do the trick to. the new water will give enough oxygen til you get another pump. hope he lives jacky. I had a fish death at work last week. I saved one but sadly he died on the monday :( gutted.....poor lucky.

jackyalex

09-05-2007 22:27

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Originally Posted by mthead (Post 422051)

Ever thought it may be an Australian Fish?????:)

funny enough my next door neighbours are australian

jackyalex

09-05-2007 22:28

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im gonna go and change the water now be back in a min

slinky

09-05-2007 22:28

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Originally Posted by jackyalex (Post 422065)

funny enough my next door neighbours are australian

it might just be feeling UNDER the weather :D

let us know how it goes Jacky

davo69

09-05-2007 22:29

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well you will have to get the other one to do back stroke and your next door will be at home

jackyalex

09-05-2007 23:07

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

jackyalex

09-05-2007 23:08

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can you see him its the big 1

slinky

09-05-2007 23:18

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Originally Posted by jackyalex (Post 422111)

can you see him its the big 1

Blinking heck forget the washing up bowl...... get a bucket :eek::eek: he's a big fishy jacky............ poor thing he will be really struggling without a pump.

jackyalex

09-05-2007 23:20

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i need a bigger tank now,he's really greedy,hence the black small 1 being small

mthead

09-05-2007 23:20

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Originally Posted by jackyalex (Post 422110)

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

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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

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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 (Post 422121)

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

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i have my own scooby doo

davo69

10-05-2007 06:57

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same fish as me i have two

davo69

10-05-2007 06:58

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flashytart was selling a good tank

WillowTheWhisp

10-05-2007 07:24

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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

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well the obvious thing to do is turn the tank over then it will be the right way up:D
mez had a fish that would swim upside down it had a damaged swim bladder

Ber999T

10-05-2007 07:30

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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

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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

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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

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:D 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 (Post 422180)

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 :o :D

Ber999T

10-05-2007 11:06

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

panther

10-05-2007 13:44

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something here if your fish decides to have a "lie down":D

http://www.provet.co.uk/fish/fishswim.htm

mani	19-05-2007 04:53

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as some one said above swimbladder

dunno what the thing is but its something to do with digestion

there's some stuff called melafix that shops sell - its paracetamol/anadin/laxative all in one for fish - its magic stuff. put in a dash of that if it does it again. its like an infection swimbladder is and this cures it

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