NuggetMrMan
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
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I got these two fish and when too big for tank can I put in pond
glassbird said:Your dad's "thing" can raise the temp? Ummm...huh?
I am writing this from work, and unfortunately pics are blocked to this computer, so I am unable to see exactly what kind of fancy goldfish you have. But I can offer some general information on survivability in a pond. First, what kind of pond? (Is it hard-sided, or mud bottomed?) How big and how deep? Does it freeze all the way to the bottom? If not, how thick does the ice usually get, and do you have a way to keep a hole open for gas exchange? Some people use heaters for this, others use air bubbles.
In my neck of the woods (New England, USA) winters get very cold. My two ponds are hard-sided and freeze all the way to the bottom. I have hardy (non-fancy) comets, but they would never survive. So they all come in every fall and overwinter in a 100 gallon stock tank in my chilly basement. The water temp gets to 45 degrees down there, so they just go semi-dormant. I do not feed them until the water temp gets back up to 55 degrees in the spring.
Fancy goldfish are generally less hardy than comets. The degree to which they are less hardy depends on how fancy they are. A round bodied ryukin or a delicate telescope would be much less likely to survive than a basic fantail, etc. And pretty much any fancy will have a hard time competing for food against a comet.
To give any more advice, I will need to see your pics (probably at home), and know the answers to the questions above...