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Jacqui

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Every spring I buy a couple of goldfish for each water turtle's pool. It amazes me how much they grow during the summer months. Then winter comes and I face a dilemma of what to do with them. I always kill them, when I try making them into house pets. The buried hot tub needs work in the spring, so I don't want to fiddle with fishing them out.

I thought about trying to use the dog's water dish. It's a small sheep waterer. I thought of using a horse tank heater in it, because it's above ground and only like 2' deep. Ignore the frost hit water hyacinths. Thoughts?20181015_095522.jpg
 

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At my old place, I had a 55 gallon drum upright for collecting water. Well summer would roll around and it would fill with mosquito larvae. I’d get a goldfish to eat them all up. Winter would roll around and that water would freeze at the least 4”-6” thick. Spring would come and that goldfish was still alive. No how it survived, but it did for a number of years.
 

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I'm with Ken, as long as it doesn't freeze completely solid, they should be ok. Winter here isn't as cold or as long as yours, but I've seen plenty of fish survive freezing weather in those sheep/horse water troughs.
 

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I've seen plenty of fish survive freezing weather in those sheep/horse water troughs.
The saddest part for me was the 10yr. drought we had. We had no rain and with me paying to have water delivered for drinking and bathing, I wasn’t gonna give some to a $2.00 fish. Rude?yes, but all was fine when I got them. Heckfire, even the POS says greenhouse is a myth. LOL
 

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I'm with Ken, as long as it doesn't freeze completely solid, they should be ok. Winter here isn't as cold or as long as yours, but I've seen plenty of fish survive freezing weather in those sheep/horse water troughs.

See I have been able to keep them with no heater even, but much bigger tanks. My worry is the tank being too small.

In my buried hot tub, I had goldfish for years. Then one year, I had a population explosion of goldfish babies. Winter came and I failed to realize with their now vast numbers, that they changed things. They used up all the oxygen under the ice mass. Lost them all.
 

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Getting ready for stupid winter here in Houston . We've been having cooler nights . My big guys don't like winter. But for me it's a good time to build new enclosures without dying from overheating.lol I'll be building Sally a new enclosure this winter. Hal is getting huge ! He's too heavy to pickup by myself. So I don't know how much he weighs.1540662320335.jpeg
 

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Getting ready for stupid winter here in Houston . We've been having cooler nights . My big guys don't like winter. But for me it's a good time to build new enclosures without dying from overheating.lol I'll be building Sally a new enclosure this winter. Hal is getting huge ! He's too heavy to pickup by myself. So I don't know how much he weighs.View attachment 255374
Wow! Your hair has grown LONG! Nice-looking sulcata. I don't like winter either, but thank goodness all my animals are ready for winter. I'm still working on winterizing the plants though.
 

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Yeah,I haven't cut my hair in two years . LoL Thats ten more dollars to spend on my animals.lol
 

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