Coming Back To Life

[-Exotic]

Alright the story was that in the past my grade 6 teacher brougt his fish back to life... The story goes that when he went to the basement he saw his cat pawwing at something.. turn's out to be his pet fish but it was crispy and dried out. So he places the dead fish back into the tank and it came back to life within 3 days. True? Plausible? or busted?

 

[UrbanJungles]

BS is the technical term.

 

[DFox]

Alright the story was that in the past my grade 6 teacher brougt his fish back to life... The story goes that when he went to the basement he saw his cat pawwing at something.. turn's out to be his pet fish but it was crispy and dried out. So he places the dead fish back into the tank and it came back to life within 3 days. True? Plausible? or busted?

Verdict: Someone watches too much Mythbusters.

 

[RoachGirlRen]

What species of fish was it? I ask because I am very active on a betta forum and, because this species breathes air through a modified organ and thus does not suffocate readily, there have been more than a few accounts of even badly dessicated fish (who may look dead) surviving when returned to water so long as their labrynth organs stayed damp while out of water (most fish die of suffocation, not dessication, on land). I haven't had it happen personally myself so I'm not saying there's no chance of lying. But, someone did once include photos a while back of of a badly dehydrated fish as well as a recovery picture of him, granted very beat up. From other accounts there is usually massive fin and slimecoat loss and secondary infection is a huge concern, but I wouldn't call it entirely implausible that a badly dessicated labrynth-breathing fish species might survive pretty severe drying if allowed to rehydrate.

That being said... it is more likely that the story is fabricated and he was merely taking advantage of the fact that 6th graders are young enough to be gullible and can't argue with an authority figure about the validity of a claim.

 

[-Exotic]

What species of fish was it? I ask because I am very active on a betta forum and, because this species breathes air through a modified organ and thus does not suffocate readily, there have been more than a few accounts of even badly dessicated fish (who may look dead) surviving when returned to water so long as their labrynth organs stayed damp while out of water (most fish die of suffocation, not dessication, on land). I haven't had it happen personally myself so I'm not saying there's no chance of lying. But, someone did once include photos a while back of of a badly dehydrated fish as well as a recovery picture of him, granted very beat up. From other accounts there is usually massive fin and slimecoat loss and secondary infection is a huge concern, but I wouldn't call it entirely implausible that a badly dessicated labrynth-breathing fish species might survive pretty severe drying if allowed to rehydrate.

That being said... it is more likely that the story is fabricated and he was merely taking advantage of the fact that 6th graders are young enough to be gullible and can't argue with an authority figure about the validity of a claim.

Your words asppire me.. I think it was a betta

 

[Galapoheros]

Well if it did end up being OK, I'd say it wasn't dead in the first place. Cool story about survival though if it really did survive.

 

[Moultmaster]

What species of fish was it? I ask because I am very active on a betta forum and, because this species breathes air through a modified organ and thus does not suffocate readily, there have been more than a few accounts of even badly dessicated fish (who may look dead) surviving when returned to water so long as their labrynth organs stayed damp while out of water (most fish die of suffocation, not dessication, on land). I haven't had it happen personally myself so I'm not saying there's no chance of lying. But, someone did once include photos a while back of of a badly dehydrated fish as well as a recovery picture of him, granted very beat up. From other accounts there is usually massive fin and slimecoat loss and secondary infection is a huge concern, but I wouldn't call it entirely implausible that a badly dessicated labrynth-breathing fish species might survive pretty severe drying if allowed to rehydrate.

That being said... it is more likely that the story is fabricated and he was merely taking advantage of the fact that 6th graders are young enough to be gullible and can't argue with an authority figure about the validity of a claim.

You're on the right track Jen, Anabantids can survive for days out of water. I had a climbing perch that escaped for 3 days and I found it and put it back in the tank and it was good as new.

 

[davidbarber1]

And then there is the Lungfish..........................

David

 

[UrbanJungles]

I could have been a coelacanth for all you know...unless it was partially munched on by a a zombie cat, dead is dead. Maybe he accidentally left out the part about his cat being buried in a pet cemetery a few weeks prior.

It's a story.

 

[Moultmaster]

I could have been a coelacanth for all you know...unless it was partially munched on by a a zombie cat, dead is dead. Maybe he accidentally left out the part about his cat being buried in a pet cemetery a few weeks prior.

It's a story.

I beg to differ, as I said my climbing perch(anabas testudineus) survived for 3 days out of the aquarium so why couldn't another similar fish. Although I agree more info is needed.

 

[AbraxasComplex]

Working in many petstores over the last 7 years I have taken countless "suicidal" dried out bettas (usually found them on the floor in the morning when I opened) and placed them in water. Recovery for most was over several hours or over night.

 

[Gold Skulltula]

Can't say I've witnessed this firsthand, except enough to say that after hearing more than just a coincidental few antidotes about this, I feel like a murderer for putting the Betta I found dried up on the floor to it's final resting spot rather than back in the water!

 

[PhoenixRisen]

Busted!

Verdict: Someone watches too much Mythbusters.

You can never watch too much Mythbusters!
I say Busted because it probably was not a lungfish and it probably wasn't a betta because a 'tank' was mentioned.

 

[Warren Bautista]

I once had a freshwater eel (the ones you use for bait.) That survived for ???? days out the water.