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All fish breathe oxygen. Oxygen is one of the ingredients required to make water. So, a fish that breathes oxygen is called a fish.
Pretty much all living things require oxygen, but maybe you are talking about fish that breathe air? There are several types that can do this, including the African lungfish, several types of catfish, and snakeheads. African lungfish require air, and will actually drown in water if they do not have access to air. Anabantids like gouramis and bettas are also air-breathers. A little more about the African lungfish comment: When these were first discovered, scientists wanted to bring them back to the US for study. They would put the lungfish in shallow containers large enough for the fish to swim around in with a little airspace at the top, bring the fish home and find them all dead on arrival. The obvious conclusion: African lungfish can't be transported. Only later did scientists learn the lungfish has to approach the surface of the water at an angle in order to breathe. When they started bringing the lungfish home in deep containers--deeper than the fish are long--the fish were able to survive the journey.
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Are there animals that really breathe fire?
Fish breathe oxygen, which they extract from the water with their gills.
How do fish breathe in water?
Most organisms, except for some such as anaerobic bacteria, respire oxygen. Fish have gills, gills have the ability to take the oxygen out of the molecule H2O.Fish have gills, which filter out the oxygen from the water. However, they can't breath out of water.A fish doesn't have lungs, it has gills, so it doesn't breathe in water really.Fish breathe under water by using their GILLSto surviveGills pull oxygen from the water but they can't breathe out of the water because the other chemicals in the air.
How do fish breathe underwater?
Fish have gills, that's what helps them breath underwater.
What do fish use to breathe?
Fish breathe through their gills. There are usually gills on either side of the pharynx. Gills have thread-like structures (filaments). These filaments exchange the oxygen and carbon dioxide.
How does a shark take in oxygen?
A shark has gills like a fish so that is how it breaths.
Are there animals that really breathe fire?
Fish breathe oxygen, which they extract from the water with their gills.
What do you breathe when you breathe out?
Humans breathe out carbon dioxide, the whole world runs in a motion, for example plants breathe carbon dioxide, we breathe in oxygen. Even fish breathe oxygen. They take the oxygen out of the water. So we breathe in what plants breathe out and plants breathe in what we breathe out.
Do fish supply oxygen to snails?
no, Fish like all animals breathe in Oxygen and out Carbon Dioxide.
Can humans breathe oxygen and hydrogen combine?
no it is completely different are bodies cant breathe that only pure oxygen(o2). although fish can breathe the dissolved oxygen in water
Why does water has many oxygen?
yes fish breathe from it
What kind of gas do fish breathe into their gills?
Oxygen.
What does a fish gill remove from the water?
Oxygen to breathe
Fish breathe what?
Fish, like all animals, require oxygen to live. They get their oxygen by filtering it out of the water using their gills, so you could say that they breathe water.
Can fish breathe underwater?
Yes they breathe through their gills using the oxygen in the water.
You think you drowned your fish is it possible?
Kind of. Fish need to breathe water to get oxygen. If they can't breathe, or if the water has too little oxygen dissolved in it, the fish will die from lack of oxygen (I would say suffocate; you may say drown).
Do crab breathe through gills?
Yes, they breathe to extract oxygen from the water like a fish.
When fish breathe their gills exchange oxygen and .?
carbon dioxide
