If you have a carp or koi that is stressed by the heat you can take a garden hose and run water into its gills to resuscitate it, but I don’t know if that qualifies as CPR.
you just put the thing back in water, if it doesn’t start swimming it’s just done. soak it in hard liquor (only painless way to euthenize it yourself) to be sure it’s totally dead before flushing it so it doesn’t suffer in the sewage system.
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by Bored Enough To Be Here
February 8, 2010 @ 10:03 pm
u lay them down flat and push on their sides then u squeeze the to make their mouths open and blow quick breaths into their months then repeat i hope this helps
Hold the fish upside down in your hand, and jerk your hand backwards. You are bringing the water out of its gills when you do that. Do this for a short while and then put the fish back in the water and try to ake iit swim forward by holding it in your hand gently and guiding it thru the water.
If all fails, then give it a proper burial — NOT a flushing.
I hope your fish revives.
This works, BTW on ladybugs who accidentally fall into a puddle. Hold em in yor hand and jerk it backwards until you see them start to move — but DON’T put the ladybug back in the water!!!!!
fish can drown? or do you mean suffocating? well, i’d say throw it in the water. if its dead, i bury them. the toilet is just too mean. Also if its floating on top of the water move it around every few minutes with your finger and clean its bowl. This should work, my parents have saved many fish this way.
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by Red Panda Power
February 9, 2010 @ 8:38 pm
A drowned fish? You might want to think about that question before you ask it in a public channel.
flush the fish, down the toilet. CPR to a fish, wTF, can’t be done. It’s like a human drowning in air.
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by Captain Tom
February 10, 2010 @ 11:00 pm
O.K., I know you all are going to not believe this, but I actually tried giving mouth to mouth to my pet goldfish I had for five years. One day, he was swimming upside down. I called the pet store and that lady said that this happens sometimes to fish — something about a problem with air in the bladder. She said if you take it out of the water and squeeze its side a little, it sometimes help. Anyway, after a while, I could see that Jaws was on his last fin, so to speak. So I pulled him out of the water and tried breathing into his mouth. I put him back in the water and he just floated. No, I didn’t flush him. But I figured it would rather be eaten and digested quickly by my farm cat than left in the ground to be eaten slowly by worms, so…
100% true story.
First get yourself a mouthful of fish tank water. Place your mouth over the fish lips (make sure you have a tight seal….) and pinch its’ nose with your fingers so no water squirts out (nobody likes it when water squirts out of their nose) when you blow the water into its’ mouth.
Next, lay the fish on its’ back and do two or three quick compressions of the heart area (that is the area just between the paired fins) with your little finger.
Now go back and start again with the mouthful of water. Be sure, if it is a saltwater fish, you are using salt water, not fresh.
If it is a freshwater fish, tap water could be used, but you would need to let it set out for 24 hours before using it so the chlorine evaporates out.
Now, 24 hours is a long time to wait to do CPR, but, hey, there’s always a chance, right…..
Keep repeating those steps until the fish revives or begins to smell really bad.
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by 8 In the corner
February 11, 2010 @ 11:46 am
what?!?
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by Cash--Rescue, Foster, Adopt!
February 11, 2010 @ 5:48 pm
No but so far that is something that I have not needed to do.
No joke…my fish floated to the top after swimming erratically (in loops and upsides and sideways , it was strange) so I poked him, nothing. So instead I tried a fish defibrillator a.k.a. A 9-volt battery. I touched the 2 leads to the fish and, I sh*t you not, he began swimming again. It’s now a day later and he’s still alive.
February 7, 2010 @ 7:44 am
fish don’t drown
February 7, 2010 @ 9:45 am
I think Yahoo needs to start monitoring these questions, Some people will do anything to try to get attention!!!
February 7, 2010 @ 12:23 pm
what is the point of asking a stupid question… fish cannot drown… oh look! I just got 2 points… oh thanks! :@
February 7, 2010 @ 4:58 pm
fish don’t drown, silly
February 7, 2010 @ 8:20 pm
throw it back in the water
February 7, 2010 @ 11:34 pm
If you have a carp or koi that is stressed by the heat you can take a garden hose and run water into its gills to resuscitate it, but I don’t know if that qualifies as CPR.
February 8, 2010 @ 5:43 am
put it in a blender on high speed
February 8, 2010 @ 7:36 am
Drowned fish?
February 8, 2010 @ 10:32 am
fish can’t drown just suffocate
February 8, 2010 @ 4:38 pm
you just put the thing back in water, if it doesn’t start swimming it’s just done. soak it in hard liquor (only painless way to euthenize it yourself) to be sure it’s totally dead before flushing it so it doesn’t suffer in the sewage system.
February 8, 2010 @ 10:03 pm
u lay them down flat and push on their sides then u squeeze the to make their mouths open and blow quick breaths into their months then repeat i hope this helps
February 9, 2010 @ 4:10 am
dont think its possible
February 9, 2010 @ 7:52 am
Hold the fish upside down in your hand, and jerk your hand backwards. You are bringing the water out of its gills when you do that. Do this for a short while and then put the fish back in the water and try to ake iit swim forward by holding it in your hand gently and guiding it thru the water.
If all fails, then give it a proper burial — NOT a flushing.
I hope your fish revives.
This works, BTW on ladybugs who accidentally fall into a puddle. Hold em in yor hand and jerk it backwards until you see them start to move — but DON’T put the ladybug back in the water!!!!!
February 9, 2010 @ 2:10 pm
..is this a serious question?
February 9, 2010 @ 5:41 pm
fish can drown? or do you mean suffocating? well, i’d say throw it in the water. if its dead, i bury them. the toilet is just too mean. Also if its floating on top of the water move it around every few minutes with your finger and clean its bowl. This should work, my parents have saved many fish this way.
February 9, 2010 @ 8:38 pm
A drowned fish? You might want to think about that question before you ask it in a public channel.
February 10, 2010 @ 3:22 am
If you find a fish that died from drowning, let me know.
February 10, 2010 @ 8:30 am
no,, sounds like its history”””’
February 10, 2010 @ 12:19 pm
take it back to the store and tell them you wanted a live fish not a drowned fish
February 10, 2010 @ 6:49 pm
the toilet performs a heck of a CPR when flushed.
February 10, 2010 @ 7:58 pm
flush the fish, down the toilet. CPR to a fish, wTF, can’t be done. It’s like a human drowning in air.
February 10, 2010 @ 11:00 pm
O.K., I know you all are going to not believe this, but I actually tried giving mouth to mouth to my pet goldfish I had for five years. One day, he was swimming upside down. I called the pet store and that lady said that this happens sometimes to fish — something about a problem with air in the bladder. She said if you take it out of the water and squeeze its side a little, it sometimes help. Anyway, after a while, I could see that Jaws was on his last fin, so to speak. So I pulled him out of the water and tried breathing into his mouth. I put him back in the water and he just floated. No, I didn’t flush him. But I figured it would rather be eaten and digested quickly by my farm cat than left in the ground to be eaten slowly by worms, so…
100% true story.
February 11, 2010 @ 2:15 am
use a turkey baster. stick it in the fishes muuth and fill ‘er up with air. lol but i dont think it would work well, and how can a fich drown?
February 11, 2010 @ 3:17 am
is this a joke? hahahahaha!!!1 lol
February 11, 2010 @ 8:39 am
First get yourself a mouthful of fish tank water. Place your mouth over the fish lips (make sure you have a tight seal….) and pinch its’ nose with your fingers so no water squirts out (nobody likes it when water squirts out of their nose) when you blow the water into its’ mouth.
Next, lay the fish on its’ back and do two or three quick compressions of the heart area (that is the area just between the paired fins) with your little finger.
Now go back and start again with the mouthful of water. Be sure, if it is a saltwater fish, you are using salt water, not fresh.
If it is a freshwater fish, tap water could be used, but you would need to let it set out for 24 hours before using it so the chlorine evaporates out.
Now, 24 hours is a long time to wait to do CPR, but, hey, there’s always a chance, right…..
Keep repeating those steps until the fish revives or begins to smell really bad.
February 11, 2010 @ 11:46 am
what?!?
February 11, 2010 @ 5:48 pm
No but so far that is something that I have not needed to do.
February 11, 2010 @ 9:27 pm
put them in a net and make them swim and let the water enter their mouth and out the gills, they do that sea world if something happens
February 12, 2010 @ 3:03 am
The garbage disposer will take care of that!
February 12, 2010 @ 7:57 am
throw it inthe toilet and do the flush act
June 28, 2010 @ 10:18 pm
No joke…my fish floated to the top after swimming erratically (in loops and upsides and sideways , it was strange) so I poked him, nothing. So instead I tried a fish defibrillator a.k.a. A 9-volt battery. I touched the 2 leads to the fish and, I sh*t you not, he began swimming again. It’s now a day later and he’s still alive.