Disabled fish gets special life jacket made to help him swim - New York Post

Disabled fish gets special life jacket made to help him swim - New York Post

Disabled fish gets special life jacket made to help him swim - New York Post

Posted: 15 Feb 2021 09:03 AM PST

What a lifesaver.

An inventive UK woman made waves online — and in a fish tank — after outfitting a disabled goldfish with a customized life jacket so it wouldn't sink. The fish's fun-sized flotation device can be seen in a viral video from the Garden Sanctuary in Wolverhampton.

"He had been living on the bottom of his tank upside down for sometime," Stacey O'Shea, who runs the pet sanctuary from her home northeast of Birmingham, told Caters News.

The unfortunate fishy had suffered from an untreatable swim bladder disorder that left him sitting upside down at the bottom of the tank, she said.

Determined not to let their pet perish belly up, the desperate owners sought help from O'Shea.

Stacey O'Shea helped a disabled goldfish by outfitting it with a customized lifejacket so it wouldn't sink.
Stacey O'Shea helped a disabled goldfish by outfitting it with a customized life jacket so it wouldn't sink.
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The pet caretaker managed to MacGyver a fin-tertube from tiny plastic tubing and T junctions normally used for air conditioning filters. She then weighed down the device with polystyrene so the scaly swimmer wouldn't float to the surface — like ballast tanks on a submarine.

Periodically adjusting the amount of polystyrene helped the goldfish swim to different levels in the tank, allowing him to see more of his home.

In creating the aquatic walker, O'Shea lifted both the fish and the family's spirits.

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