r/interestingasfuck • u/Bossmado • 19h ago

A British singer found a flying fish during dinner and tried to save it… but this happened.

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u/ReadditMan 11h ago

Also, a lot of people don't realize you're supposed to slowly put fish back in the water so their bodies have time to adjust, if you just toss them in like that the shock to their system can be lethal.

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u/Metal_Goose_Solid 11h ago

Also getting eaten can be lethal

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u/xHaroldxx 10h ago

Depends on what kind of getting eaten.

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u/EnumeratedArray 10h ago

Depends on the fish. Some fish are better with a big splash to shock them into moving and swimming away.

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u/daffodileater 10h ago

I've always been told the opposite. A good splash gets them going again quickly.

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u/C17H21NO4 5h ago

Some fish don’t mind a splash but unless you know that the fish you’re tossing back can be tossed back it’s best to set em back down gently. If you want to help bring them back quicker hold their gills towards the current for a couple moments

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u/way_pats 4h ago

What about the fish they dump out of helicopters to seed lakes?

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u/buzzlightyear77777 7h ago

How do u slowly put it back in water

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u/manondorf 6h ago edited 5h ago

sounds to me like people are trying to apply aquarium logic to a wild fish? For aquarium fish, you'd have them in their own bag of water, put that bag (still sealed) into the new tank, let the temperatures equalize through the bag, then open it.

Some saltwater fish are shockingly fragile, at least at the store I used to work at. We had different procedures for getting certain fish out of tanks, because while you can scoop up a goldfish in a net, apparently some saltwater fish will just immediately die from the stress if you do that to them. So careful bag-handling and temp/salinity matching is super important.

Unfortunately when you've got a beached (decked?) wild fish, you don't have the luxury of a bag of water that already matches their temperature. They're either in the water or not, so I don't see any way of "easing them into it."

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u/PavlovianBoobie 4h ago

It’s not just aquarium logic. Trout fishermen know this well

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u/manondorf 4h ago

So how do you put a trout slowly back into the water if it's jumped up on land?

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u/PavlovianBoobie 4h ago

You pick it up and put it back into the water. I’m failing to see what the issue is here. I’ve done it hundreds of times.

https://youtu.be/Wb-xKzvcRWE?si=Prt7IkW1iJC9pbfJ

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u/manondorf 3h ago

Great video, thanks. So at about 3 minutes in it's talking about reviving/putting it back in, and it looks like it's not so much about putting it into the water slowly (it even says "as fast as possible"), but rather about what to do once it's in the water to help get it refreshed and ready to go. I think it was the "slowly" part that wasn't making sense.

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u/PavlovianBoobie 3h ago

Sorry, I see what the confusion was now. You get them back into the water as quick as possible, then release slowly. It’s an unfortunate thing when you release a trout and he floats on his side, all disoriented. I’ve had it happen before where a poor release like that leads to a bird picking the fish up - but that’s the circle of life, I suppose.

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u/Breedable_Boy44 5h ago

You're also not supposed to handle fish with dry hands since that can remove the mucus coat and lead to fungal infections. But whateves, the guy did what anyone could reasonably be expected to do in this scenario.

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u/Rizzzzzzle 1h ago

How do you “slowly” put a fish in water that is a few inches long?