Artificial Fish Respiration

Kua · 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.

Never has your username been more appropriate.

Kua · 26 Mar 2009 at 21:20

Poo, beaten to it.

fishfishfish · 26 Mar 2009 at 21:24

It's what I do for my day-job...

Art · 26 Mar 2009 at 21:28

You breath for a living?

Can I have your job?

bum · 26 Mar 2009 at 21:31

When I was young, my neighbour once blew up a fish by sticking a waterproof firecracker into a fish's gill. It was funny but now I am sad.

benjo · 26 Mar 2009 at 21:33

nokinidea said:
I hope that was a joke. :/

Monkeynut · 26 Mar 2009 at 21:35

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

If we shoved water through your lungs, would you breathe?

Kua · 26 Mar 2009 at 22:23

Monkeynut said:
If we shoved water through your lungs, would you breathe?

He might instantaneously evolve. Wanna try?