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it may be because of your water quality! change your water and add some sea salt because you may have high ammonia in your tank,or your fish may be depressed by not being welcomed into its tank properly,did you cycle your tank before you got the fish and welcome your fish slowly into its new home?
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∙ 10y agoThe gills are sided by a series of capillaries. Capillaries are small blood vessels. These capillaries are used to transport oxygen from the gills throughout the fish.
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What color are the gills on a fish and why?
The gills of a healthy fish are bright red; this is because blood is flowing through them.
Why the gills of fishes are red?
They are red because you can see the colour of the red blood through the thin walls of the gills. The gills carry the oxygenated blood into and around the fish just as your lungs do for you.
Why fish are red?
The gills are sided by a series of capillaries. Capillaries are small blood vessels. These capillaries are used to transport oxygen from the gills throughout the fish.
What is the color of the gills?
i think it is red. Or they can be any colour its depending on the fish
Fish have this instead of lungs?
Fish Use Gills Instead of lungs. Gills Help fish to Breath. Fish Use Gills Instead of lungs. Gills Help fish to Breath.
What are the red things that come out the head of a Mexican salamnder?
Those are its gills (e.g. for breathing). Salamanders such as the Axolotl have external gills, unlike internal gills found in fish.
Do hag fish have gills?
all fish have gills
How does a clown fish breathes?
it breathes through its gills
Do fighter fish have gills?
yes all fish have gills.
Do siames fitghing fish have gills?
All fish have gills. Their gills are like lungs. And if they didn't have gills they would die.
Do fish breathe with lungs or gills?
gills.
How long can a red tailed catfish stay out of water?
How long a red tailed catfish can stay out of the water depends on the fish in question and how moist the fish's gills are.
