Gold fish info

[Beverly]

Steve,

I would be concerned about the wood deteriorating and causing water quality problems, and probably wouldn't put fish in the barrel. Perhaps run it this summer and see if water quality will be an issue. The wood might also cause low pH. If there aren't water quality and pH problems, I would put fish in it next year.

It probably gets cold enough in your location that you would have to overwinter your fish indoors, unless you can manage to heat just enough for there to be no ice forming. At such cool temps, you won't have to feed the fish all winter.

We had a 110g indoor gf pond a few years back. Had the pond running for over two years. It was stocked with four fish if I remember correctly - 1.5" shubunkin and at least one feeder gf. All grew like crazy while we had them and were over 3.5" long when we found new homes for them because of a house move.