Disabled Goldfish That Can't Swim Is Saved With Hand-Made Life Jacket

The last creature you would ever think would need a life jacket is a fish, but for this fish, a life jacket is exactly what it needed to keep it from swimming upside down.

According to Daily Mail, this poor fish "found himself living upside at the bottom of his tank after a bout of swim bladder - a disorder which affects buoyancy - was found to be untreatable." Luckily, this fish had the most loving caretaker who went out of her way to make a tiny life jacket for the fish that now allows it to swim freely and happily.

Read more and see the viral video below!

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Stacey O'Shea runs The Garden Sanctuary from her home in Wolverhampton, and she was absolutely set on making this fish a special life jacket to save its life. She used "tiny plastic tubing and t junctions normally used for air conditioning filters before adding polystyrene to help weigh him down." She even periodically changed the polystyrene, "cutting it to different sizes - so the fish could swim at other levels and see various parts of the tank."
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Now, with the fish swimming happily with its new gear, a video of it as gone viral, and everyone is celebrating this adorable and heartwarming achievement. Stacey said: "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."
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For more stories of humans building contraptions to help animals in need, check out this video of a kitten getting a wheelchair and being unable to stop the zooms right here.
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