Guy makes Life jacket for Pet Fish That Cannot Swim – Leighton had a pet fish called Einstein that developed a disease which prevented him from swimming.
Einstein’s disease meant that he would turn upside down and sink to the bottom of his tank. It seemed doomed for the tiny critter, but then Naylor made him a life jacket!
Naylor said, “When he couldn’t get back up, it was a sorry sight… It broke my heart to see him so helpless. He looked so depressed.”
So Naylor came to the rescue and used some recycled tubing to create a buoyancy aid that allowed Einstein to swim around the tank and stopped him sinking.
Naylor, 32, from Blackpool, UK, said that Einstein wasn’t too keen on the idea at first, because he kept catching on stuff in the tank and getting stuck, so he rearranged the tank to make it “disability-friendly” and since then, the little fish has been doing just fine.
Only draw back with the fish life jacket is that the fish cannot swim to the surface to feed. Naylor resolved this problem by passing him his food through a tube that he lowers into the water.