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Whats wrong with your fish if it wont swim or float but its not dead?
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∙ 15y ago
Perhaps its in a sort of shock? If the fish in question is a new pet fish, I mean.
Normally when you buy a new fish, it comes in a plastic baggie. You're supposed to place the sealed baggy (with fish/water still inside) into its new fish tank. This makes the water in the baggy slowly change to the temperature of the water in the fish tank, and prevents the fish from undergoing the "shock" that accompanies dumping it into a different temperature environment.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 15y agoFish donot float because they have fins to help them stay under and gills suck water in and that pulls the water in to keep them down.
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