My insane moment of the day...

Really I could probably post something under this heading every day, but this one I thought was too funny not to share. So I was loading the dishwasher when I noticed our Beta Fish, Superman was swimming under the rocks in his bowl which I thought was a bit odd. Well the next time I looked up Superman was stuck under the rocks trying with all his fishy might to get out, rearing back and swimming forward to try and push the rocks. I thought, my God he is going to drown. I rushed over to the bowl and stuck my hand in to move the rocks for the little guy. It was at this moment I realized I was saving our fish from drowning. All I could do is laugh, I still did make sure he got out of the rocks, only to find him a couple hours later back under. Now before you judge, listen to this. I got curious and did a little research and low and behold a fish can in fact drown under water. How you ask - well the first answer I found was if you hold its gills closed it will drown under water :( I was not going to settle for that so here is what I found


Fish get their oxygen directly from the water. They have organs called gills that take oxygen out of the water, just as your lungs take oxygen out of the air. But water can run out of oxygen, just as air can. So fish can suffocate in water, which means they can drown in water. These drownings occur most often in small ponds that dry up. All the fish that live in the pond are crowded into the remaining water, where they use up all the oxygen in the water, then drown. Fish can also drown if their gills are damaged in a collision with an underwater plant or in a fight with other sea creatures. Weather conditions also account for some drownings. For example, when some fish realize that oxygen supply in the water is getting very low, they rise to the surface and suck air into a sac-like organ called the air bladder. The fish can then take oxygen out of this air instead of directly out of the water. But in cold weather, when the surface of the water is frozen, the fish can’t reach that air, and so they drown.

SO THERE, now stop laughing.