Imagine being a goldfish and not being able to swim. It isn't ever day you hear about a fish not being able to swim, but unfortunately it does happen from time to time, for different reasons.
A crippled goldfish was going through a difficult ordeal until a woman did something heartwarming - she customised a life jacket for the little creature so that it could swim again. Isn't that wonderful?
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The fish¡¯s fun-sized flotation device can be seen in a viral video from the Garden Sanctuary in England's Wolverhampton.??
As per a report in New York Post, the unfortunate goldfish had suffered from an untreatable swim bladder disorder that left him sitting upside down at the bottom of the tank.?
Stacey O¡¯Shea, who runs The Garden Sanctuary from her home, set about making the goldfish a special lifejacket using tiny plastic tubing and T junctions normally used for air conditioning filter?before adding polystyrene to help weigh him down.??
Stacey periodically adjusted?the amount of polystyrene which helped the goldfish swim to different levels in the tank.
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And now a video of the fish swimming happily in the life jacket has gone viral after it was posted online.
Stacey, was quoted telling Daily Mail: ¡°He had been living on the bottom of his tank upside down for sometime and his lovely family were desperate to get him help so he came to us.¡±
Stacey?isn¡¯t the first fish lover to make a flotation device for a goldfish in need. Last year, a Massachusetts man created a?similarly tubular life jacket?for his five-year-old pet who wasn't able to swim.?
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