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Do fish drink water

Updated: 2/15/2023
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Fresh water fish absorb water through their skin and gills, Saltwater Fish actually do drink water.

In saltwater fish, they have to drink because their body's concentration of salt is lower than the surrounding water. Therefore, they have to drink huge amounts of water every day to stay hydrated.

In Freshwater Fish, their salt concentration is higher than that of the surrounding water, and, as osmosis dictates, they absorb water through their highly permeable skin. To keep from bursting, freshwater fish actually have to excrete water, up to 10 times their body weight daily, unlike saltwater fish.

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lol noooo i have fish and they dont drink water they absorb it and pls dont try to put your freshwater fish in salt water if u love them
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Fishes dont actually drink water, down through the mouth. But obviously they need water, like all living things need to live. They genearally absorb it through there skin (osmosis) same way hormones and nutrients are absorbed in to our blood.
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Freshwater fish do not survive in salt water

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Everything needs water to survive. The fish probably soak the water in their gills to help them swim.

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Aaron Smith

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Fish do absorb water through their skin and gills in a process called osmosis. To stop the exploding fish phenomenon, their gills have special cells that selectively pump salt in, or out of their blood. In freshwater fish, the cells constantly pump salt in, and in saltwater fish, they constantly pump salt out

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Fish absorb water through its gills and skin. This process is called as osmosis. As well as getting water through osmosis, saltwater fish need to purposefully drink water in order to get enough into their systems.

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Abdo Alaa

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In fact, some fish need to drink water, some fish do not, and some fish can adapt to both, depending on the environment they are in. For example: fish that live in fresh water need to drink water, because their body contains a level of salts higher than the level of water, so the water enters inside them to balance this equation, through their gills.

In order to maintain the balance of the fish, some tissues need some salt to remain inside, and here there is the role of the chloroid cells, as they control the flow of dissolved salt between the cell membranes, and balance between the percentage of salt inside the fish and its percentage in the river water.

As for fish that live in salt water, they do the opposite, although they drink large quantities of water, but they need to take it out and keep the salt to balance between the percentage of salt in their body and the percentage in the sea, for example. The proportion of the salt entering her body is balanced through the mouth, after which the remainder is purified from the salty water, through the kidneys, and through the gills on both sides of it.

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Nikita Shrestha

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Obviously,fish drink water because it lives in water.

Fresh water fish absorb water through their skin and gills,

Saltwater Fish actually do drink water.

In saltwater fish, they have to drink because their body's

concentration of salt is lower than the surrounding water.

Therefore, they have to drink huge amounts of water every day to

stay hydrated.

In Freshwater Fish, their salt concentration is higher than that

of the surrounding water, and, as osmosis dictates, they absorb

water through their highly permeable skin. To keep from bursting,

freshwater fish actually have to excrete water, up to 10 times

their body weight daily, unlike saltwater fish.

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Yesenia Quispe

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Marine fish do drink water, and they do so continuously. ... Although when doing this they also ingest sales, these are not absorbed because they do not need them, at least not most of them, and they are expelled through the gills and urine, which is very concentrated and with little amount of water.

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ابو كفشه

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Freshwater fish absorb water through their shells because their salt concentration is greater than the concentration in the water ... While fish that live in salt water like seas have less salt concentration than in the water, so they drink water frequently to remain in balance with the ocean. Live in it.

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Pranav Sankhyan

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Fresh water fish absorb water through their skin and gills, saltwater fish actually do drink water.

In saltwater fish, they have to drink because their body's concentration of salt is lower than the surrounding water. Therefore, they have to drink huge amounts of water every day to stay hydrated.

In freshwater fish, their salt concentration is higher than that of the surrounding water, and, as osmosis dictates, they absorb water through their highly permeable skin. To keep from bursting, freshwater fish actually have to excrete water, up to 10 times their body weight daily, unlike saltwater fish.

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