Artificial Fish Respiration

boxley · 26 Mar 2009 at 19:40

If you blew air through the gills of a fish out of water, could it breath?

GingerNinja1989 · 26 Mar 2009 at 19:40

Probably kill it...

Aero · 26 Mar 2009 at 19:41

Why would you?

benjo · 26 Mar 2009 at 19:42

It works, thats why theres flying fish.

boxley · 26 Mar 2009 at 19:42

Damn.... I really wanted to take my fish for a walk.

Kua · 26 Mar 2009 at 19:43

boxley said:
Damn.... I really wanted to take my fish for a walk.

Put his/her bowl on a skateboard?

boxley · 26 Mar 2009 at 19:44

No, im sure my way would be simpler

Antar Bolaeisk · 26 Mar 2009 at 19:46

boxley said:
If you blew air through the gills of a fish out of water, could it breath?

You've a very strange mind.

Conduct some experiments and let us know how you get on.

Egon · 26 Mar 2009 at 19:48

boxley said:
Damn.... I really wanted to take my fish for a walk.

Of course you did - just wait till its raining you'll be fine !

KiTBoH · 26 Mar 2009 at 19:48

I thought the reason a fish couldnt live out of water was because they couldn't breathe air?

By that I mean they need the oxygen in the water for some reason

boxley · 26 Mar 2009 at 19:48

okay give me a few months, a huge grant from the government and i'll tell you how it goes.

eXor · 26 Mar 2009 at 19:49

boxley said:
If you blew air through the gills of a fish out of water, could it breath?

Apparently not.

boxley · 26 Mar 2009 at 19:52

Perhaps preservation in rice is required rather than breadcrumbs... he looks a bit more alive

Mr_White · 26 Mar 2009 at 19:54

KiTBoH said:
I thought the reason a fish couldnt live out of water was because they couldn't breathe air?

By that I mean they need the oxygen in the water for some reason

Labyrinth fish can breathe atmospheric air.

Combat squirrel · 26 Mar 2009 at 19:56

No gills are designed to extract o2 from water, /end thread

(Finally my ocean science degree becomes useful)

eXor · 26 Mar 2009 at 19:59

Combat squirrel said:
No gills are designed to extract o2 from water

What are gills designed to do, then? :confused:

boxley · 26 Mar 2009 at 20:03

Combat squirrel said:
No <pause> gills are designed to extract o2 from water, /end thread

(Finally my ocean science degree becomes useful)

Fuzz · 26 Mar 2009 at 20:23

benjo said:
It works, thats why theres flying fish.

I hope that was a joke. :/

fishfishfish · 26 Mar 2009 at 21:18

It could get a bit of oxygen, but nothing like what it would need. Gills are made up of things called filaments, each of which has lots of tiny frilly structures on them called lamellae. Each lamella is there to increase the surface area of the gill to allow oxygen to enter, and carbon dioxide and ammonia to diffuse into the water. However, these soft tissues collapse when the fish is lifted out of the water, so the overall surface area is greatly reduced and the fish won't be able to breathe as it does under water.

eXor · 26 Mar 2009 at 21:20

fishfishfish said:
It could get a bit of oxygen, but nothing like what it would need. Gills are made up of things called filaments, each of which has lots of tiny frilly structures on them called lamellae. Each lamella is there to increase the surface area of the gill to allow oxygen to enter, and carbon dioxide and ammonia to diffuse into the water. However, these soft tissues collapse when the fish is lifted out of the water, so the overall surface area is greatly reduced and the fish won't be able to breathe as it does under water.

You would know.