Originally Posted By: Grundulis
Do you think that goldfish will be easy to kill? I doubt so. It's a very close relative to ordinary crucian carp and they are able to live in very bad conditions. I know many old, shallow and sometimes dirty ponds that aren't suitable for other fish but they manage to live there and even survive in winter even despite the lack of oxygen.

I'd try to pump out the water somehow and catch the fish.


How true that is. I had almost 50 common goldfish in a 5 gallon bucket. From 4" to 10" long. Temps were in the 40's. Only about 1" of water in the bucket, not on purpose, just from rain at the time of collecting them. They sat outside, in the bucket from 4:00 p.m. until mid afternoon the next day. When I dumped them out in the field by the woods at the house, there were still a half dozen that were flipping and flopping around. I'm sure they would have survived if I had dumped them into a pond.

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