I have a small pond outside of my house with fish in it. It has a pump in it that adds oxygen into the water for the fish. One night, I left the pump off and came back in the morning and found 1 fish dead and another fish who looked dead but when I turned on the pump, it started moving again. I examined the fish and it was bloated. I left home and when I came back, the fish was fine. I have no idea what happened to it...I dont even know what I should ask!
2007-01-04 14:09:28 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
It sounds like it was having a bad reaction to the rising ammonia level in the pond due to the filter not working.
What leads me to believe this is that you said it recovered when the pump started moving again, filtering the ammonia back out and probably forcing some much needed oxygen back in.
Goldfish produce more ammonia in their waste than most other fish, and that ammonia can easily kill them if it isn't properly filtered.
2007-01-04 14:17:50 · answer #1 · answered by Noner 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The lack of air in the water killed one and most likely stunned the other one... turning on the pump and adding oxygen back to the water brought the fish around just in time...else you would have had 2 dead fish.
2007-01-04 14:12:41 · answer #2 · answered by debcat76135 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You know what happened, it was just bloated. Without the oxygen pump the fish tend to either pass out, or bloat.
2007-01-04 14:11:29 · answer #3 · answered by blacknwhitepuma 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It might be alive if its mouth is moving so what its doing is kinda burping out the air he got from getting food out of the surface of the water or burping out the air that he breathed since you left the air pump off.
2007-01-04 14:18:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
was your fish injected with callogen when he was a little baby? this is standard practice in all of the regions of aquatics, that one cortozone shot does the trick at keeping them alive throughout stressful times in their life such as ammonia in the water or lack of oxygen.
These symptoms that appeareed wer very similar to those of ones tested in our laberatrories during the summer of 2005 So, these fish that we have had dealt with the exact same situeation as your fish, exhibited symptoms of wjhat i have already explained to you. They need their shots of cortozoen
2007-01-04 14:12:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fish can't talk and they can't put their fins around their neck to show they're choking, so it did what it could to communicate. Leave the pump on, it's fine, and the other one might have come around if you'ld rescusitated it. It wasn't dead, just pining for the fjords.
2007-01-04 14:18:22 · answer #6 · answered by Crash 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Usually when a fish turn upside down, but it is not dead, one of its fins is probably messed up and it can't keep its balance some of the time. Sucks though, cus theres no way of fixin it.
2007-01-04 14:12:14 · answer #7 · answered by freezy 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
this happened to my fish before but it died :( i thought it was pregnant lol...what happened was that it couldnt breathe Next time dont forget to turn the pump on
2007-01-04 14:12:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
That means Your fish were within minutes,,, maybe even seconds of dying!! i owuld reccomend not 2 ever do that again!!!
2007-01-04 14:11:41 · answer #9 · answered by Depressed Orange 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i have had goldfish do that but they have died within a few days.
dont turn off the pump
2007-01-04 14:13:05 · answer #10 · answered by earthgirl766 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋