Tap water is not very good for fish. There are two main reasons.
Most tap water has been treated to ensure it is safe for us to drink. This treatment usually leaves some chlorine (in some form or other) in the water. Chlorine is a poison for us and for fish but the level of danger for fish is very very much lower as they are passing water through their gills constantly and because they are so (relatively) small.
Secondly, tapwater has little oxygen dissolved in it. This depends on how far your tap is by pipe from the open reservoir. We get our oxygen from the air; fish have to rely on the oxygen dissolved in the water that they pass through their gills. Both these problems mean that a race starts when you place your fish in tapwater. Will the water improve fast enough for the fish to live or will the fish die first? Sometimes the fish wins but it will suffer.
Before placing tapwater in an aquarium it should stand open to the air for 24 hrs. This will allow the chlorine to evaporate and the oxygen from the air to dissolve in the water. There are some additives that will ensure that tapwater is safe for fish, available at your local pet shop.
Well, first thing is tap water is freshwater and Saltwater Fish die in freshwater and vice versa. Secondly there are amounts of chlorine in tap water to make it safe for us which is deadly to fish.
The fish will get sick and die.
Fish have gills and they absorb the water of the sea, ocean or anyplace with water. It's just like air. Without air we would die. Without water fish would die.
In most cases, no. The fish will die.
you get fish from sea to us by and when a rope put it into the water and when the a fish bits the rope you pull it out of the water
They will die. The cause being sea water has different organisms in it than fresh and not to mention salt.
uhm...because its on top of the water cause the fish are down the water
no! chlorine is a harmful and harzardess chemical, in order for any type or fish or any anphibian it need either sea water or fresh water. if you put a fish in chlorine it would die. dont reccomend doing it.
Because they would die if they didn't have any water.
Oil spills contaminate the sea and the fish die along with sea birds.
It depends. If your fishtank is for salt water then no. But if it's for fresh water then yes
Damsel fish are OK in a Marine (sea water) environment. They will not survive in fresh water.
Fresh water fish do not drink water, they absorbed it through their skin, like osmosis. Sea water fish do drink water, and excrete the salt through their gills. The salmon, which lives in both in environments, gets its water like a fresh water fish when in fresh water and like a sea water fish when in the sea.