Can you drown a fish?

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You can air-drown a fish by taking it out of the water, or if you keep a fishtank and don't maintain it properly, the oxygen levels can get too low, so yes, you can drown a fish, even under water. Also there are fish such as bettas (aka siamese fighting fish) which do get oxygen from the water, but also from the surface, so if they can't get to the surface for one reason or another, they would most likely drown.
 
Yes. a fish survives by using it's gills to filter dissolved air out of the water, if you were to put a fish in a bucket and then seal the top so that only very little air would be allowed to contact the water, eventually the fish in the bucket would filter out as much dissolved air as it could and then die.
 
Yes. a fish survives by using it's gills to filter dissolved air out of the water, if you were to put a fish in a bucket and then seal the top so that only very little air would be allowed to contact the water, eventually the fish in the bucket would filter out as much dissolved air as it could and then die.
 
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