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What is a swim bladder?

Updated: 8/16/2019
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an air filled sac near the spinal column in many fishes that helps maintain buoyancy.

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Yes or no do Bird have swim bladder?

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A swim bladder can be found in what?

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What is the function of a swim bladder as found in a bony fish?

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What special organ helps a boney fish float?

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What is the function of a swim bladder on a fish?

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What are some uses of a bladder in a fish?

To urinate, if you mean the urinary bladder. If you mean the swim bladder, it is to be able to change its depth in the water. It has a way to vent air from the gills to the swim bladder, and from the swim bladder to the digestive tract. So the fish would inflate the bladder to be able to rise and deflate the bladder to go lower.


What is the function of the swim bladder of fish?

The swim bladder makes your fish sink so it isn't floating to the top of the tank.If your fish is floating then it might be a swim bladder problem.Or your fish is dying.


How do fish's swim bladders adjust to differences in fluid density?

The swim time course of the swim bladder response raises a problem. If a fish can not instantly adjust its swim bladder volume its buoyancy is unstable. As the fish rises in the water the pressure of the swim bladder decreases!


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Do tadpoles have a swim bladder?

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How do fish without swim bladders adjust to differences in fluid density?

The swim time course of the swim bladder response raises a problem. If a fish can not instantly adjust its swim bladder volume its buoyancy is unstable. As the fish rises in the water the pressure of the swim bladder decreases!