Recent content by Maddogmcdaz

People, I don't know if anyone remembers my posting a few months ago about how I used CPR to resuscitate a 'dead' fish, but I can announce that I yesterday employed the same technique to Mr Wynt, with equally effective results. Again, it sounds like the 'swim bladder' infection or whatever it...

I've no idea! Perhaps the blowing simply loosened a blockage of some variety, I guess I'll never know. One things for sure though, I'm well chuffed! :D

In fact, to add to my previous comment, I recommend that everyone try 'CPR' on their fish!! I wonder how many people flush their pride and joys away, not realising that maybe they still have time to spend with them... ...and my missus said that fish were easy to look after??! Come on peeps...

Don't get the wrong idea here folks, I didn't do anything untoward to the fish! What I did was hold it about a foot away and blow short blasts of air at its mouth, obviously taking enough care to not blow Mr Kidd up, like James Bond did in Goldfinger. It's eye's moved first, then it's mouth in...

I awoke the other morning to find Mr Kidd, my fantailed goldfish floating lifelessly on the surface of his tank. Following 15 mins of resuscitation (ie. blowing into the poor mites face) signs of life slowly returned and Kidd was more or less ready to fight another day, despite literally...