Re: RC: water tank fish??

[Rick Crites <rdcrites@altavista.com>]

Goldfish can survive with enough ice covering a pond that you can ice skate on it.  In Indiana we had a pond with goldfish in it and we used to chase them around the pond will ice skating.

Nan

On Thu, 08 June 2000, Carol Thompson wrote:

> 
> I keep koi and common goldfish in my galvanised tanks after I rinse the
> tanks with vinegar.  I don not remember the last time I had to scrub a
> horse trough.  This is a major accomplishment in FL, since the algae
> grows really fast..  I dump them out and rinse a few times a year when I
> think of it.  The fish need hiding places, like buckets or PVC, and I
> feed them a few flakes a couple of times a week.  They stay out all
> year, and I have some that are several years old.  It does not get all
> that cold here, though; we only had ice on the troughs twice this
> winter.  I'll be glad to answer any other questions.  
> 
> Carol in FL
> 
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