Path: utzoo!hoptoad!uunet!husc6!necntc!ima!cfisun!susans
From: susans@cfi.COM (susans)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Belly up, but not dead
Summary: fish floats on back but lives to tell about it
Message-ID: <132@cfiprod.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 88 19:52:42 GMT
Reply-To: susans@cfiprod.UUCP (Susan Scheide -CFI-)
Organization: Consumer Financial Institute, Waltham, Mass.
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Expires:04/01/88
Followup-To:alt.aquaria
Keywords:belly up fish



Hello fellow fish keepers:

I posted this to rec.pets a while back, and got no response.  This
is the scoop:

I have a very modest tank set up -- stop here if you're a fish keeping
legend in your own mind -- a 10 gallon freshwater tank with five
"fans" a.k.a. goldfish.  They are doing really well, and have
doubled or tripled in size.  Two of them prefer to float upside down
on the water's surface than act like normal fish.  One of them has even
tried to eat while upside down. 

They look dead, but if you go near the tank, the right themselves and swim
away.  Does anyone have any idea why they do this?  Gas? 8^)

E-mail me, as I don't think this is of general interest.  The address
in the header is the only one I know.


-- 
                         Susan Scheide
                    Another friend of Bill's

                      "I am responsible..."