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To pour boiling water on the fish

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Sokmonsta · 12/12/2012 09:30

We have a plastic tub with goldfish in the garden. Not mine, we were looking after them for a friend while he moved house. Now he's moved, not collected them and the sodding tub is nearly frozen solid. Have sent him a terse message saying sort the fucking fish (we've had them months). But the only way I can see to help them out is to put hot water in the good 6 inches of ice on top. And it's icky because there are also dead fish frozen in there.

Am seriously wishing I'd just put them in my parents pond when they were on holiday in September!

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Softlysoftly · 12/12/2012 09:31

How big is the tub can't it come inside for a bit?

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chrismissymoomoomee · 12/12/2012 09:32

Why are they outside?

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nipersvest · 12/12/2012 09:33

i know you're a bit miffed about being left with the fish, but poor fish!

have they seriously been left outside to freeze?

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D0oinMeCleanin · 12/12/2012 09:33

Why have you let the fish freeze to death?

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HousewifefromBethlehem · 12/12/2012 09:35

Why'd you leave them outside??? That's fish abuse!!!

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GoldQuintessenceAndMyhrr · 12/12/2012 09:35

Hmm
Tis a bit late now, though.


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TaggieCrimbleBlack · 12/12/2012 09:36

Poor fish Sad

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GhoulWithADragonTattoo · 12/12/2012 09:36

Bring them inside. Fill a bucket with cold water put the ice and fish in the cold water the ice will then melt. Scoop out any dead fish. Clean the tub and then fill it with cold water and transfer the goldfish to it and seriously hope for the best.

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GhoulWithADragonTattoo · 12/12/2012 09:37

Don't put them back outside under any circumstances.

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lemonsherbet · 12/12/2012 09:37

If they are still alive try and break up the ice and put a ball that floats in there to allow air to get to the water below-remember that from blue peter.

Is there no way they can come and live inside?

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Cantbelieveitsnotbutter · 12/12/2012 09:37

Polystyrene stops it freezing not boiling water :0( poor fishies

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BigShinyBaubles · 12/12/2012 09:39

That's gross. Even though they aren't yours you should still look after them properly..Goldfish aren't exactly hard to look after.

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MrsReiver · 12/12/2012 09:39

Poor fish Xmas Sad I have no real idea but I have a vague recollection of Chris Packham saying not to defrost ponds and just to let nature take care of it, but that doesn't seem great if the top of the pond is completely frozen over.

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HaudYerWheeshtFannyBaws · 12/12/2012 09:39

Why would you leave them outside? Shock

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whattodoo · 12/12/2012 09:39

I seriously doubt they're still alive. Poor fish.
He's a sod, but you have mis-treated the fish by the sounds of it.
Poor fish

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GhoulWithADragonTattoo · 12/12/2012 09:40

I think a pond is different to a tub. In a pond only the top layer is frozen so the fish still have water underneath. In a tub it will mostly / totally freeze.

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GoldQuintessenceAndMyhrr · 12/12/2012 09:41

MrsReiver, that is usually good advice for a pond that is dug down in the ground, as the ground is rarely frozen far below the surface. In those cases the frozen ice on the top keeps the pond warmer.

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Lilithmoon · 12/12/2012 09:41

Wow you should be disgusted with yourself for treating animals so badly. I would report you to the RSPCA is I knew you.

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nipersvest · 12/12/2012 09:42

i'm guessing this thread is not going to go the way the op expected

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MrsWolowitz · 12/12/2012 09:44

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GoldQuintessenceAndMyhrr · 12/12/2012 09:45

Does the owner know he has a tub of frozen fish in your garden?

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MrsReiver · 12/12/2012 09:46

See - said I hadn't got a clue Xmas Grin

But you don't need to know about ponds or fish to realise that the poor fish have been mistreated, Lilithmoon - I totally agree, if this was someone I knew IRL I'd be on the phone to SSPCA or RSPCA sharpish.

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complexnumber · 12/12/2012 09:48

Wow you should be disgusted with yourself for treating animals so badly. I would report you to the RSPCA is I knew you.

That is a joke, right?

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rockinaroundthebadtasteflump · 12/12/2012 09:48

This thread has made me feel queasy Sad

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catsmother · 12/12/2012 09:49

I think Ghoul's suggestion is best - but why the hell have you let it get this far ? I'd be very surprised if any at all were still alive and what you've done is totally neglectful when you consider how little effort it would have taken to bring the tub inside.

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