Belly up at the surface and unresponsive to my touch and encouragement.
I placed the doomed fish into a fish cage for observation. 28 hours later I went back to check on it and I'll be damned, that fish was agressive and lively ready to be released. Could this method be true?
This reminds me of my Navy days during Viet Nam. One of my guys came back from a real bad experience. He was being "rotated out" as his assignment time was up. As a going-away gift, I bought him a bottle of Chivas Regal. He chugged the whole damn bottle!
Shortly after he chugged the bottle, we found him belly up and non-responsive outside our building. A friend and I got him up and walked him around for at least an hour. We made him drink a bunch of water and 7-Up. Several hours later, he was a lot more responsive. We took him to his room. About 3 or 4 hours later we went to check on him. He was gone. After a long search, we finally found him. He went shopping! He couldn't understand why we were concerned about him.
So, I guess, if you are polluted to the gills, human or fish, maybe 7-Up can bring you back from the brink.
