My dtr is turnin 5 this summer. She always has a pool party at our house.

This year i want to try some gold fish in the pool for that day but i dont know how long they will last in there with all the chemicals.

Has anyone ever tried this?

I figure i will put in a couple hundred fish.

Bill

they will die VERY QUICKLY!!! a terrible idea, i must say (though your intentions are good). chlorine kills EVERYTHING, which is why we put it in pools--to kill bacteria and microscopic organisms...as fish are quite a bit bigger, well, they will die in a BAD way...just cruel, really.

story time. so, i am a chem major doing a summer internship before my senior year. i go around to different bodies of water to kill algae and other plant life. i get to this pond where people swim (lifeguards and all). the head lifeguard--high school dolt says that he thinks MY chemicals are killing the fish. i said i had never been there before, but it is ridiculous nonetheless. i asked if anything stange had happened--no. had they done anything to the pond? he said no...we just started putting chlorine in a couple of weeks ago...i flipped out..."well, you know they put it in pools, so it must be ok." the real shock ofr me is that someone is actually the boss--and he purchased chlorine FOR them.

now, i am not calling you a dolt...just informing you that it is my educated belief that you will have a goldfish genocide on your hands BEFORE the party ends...and it might, in fact, end the party.

go with tons of silver balloons instead--NO CLOWNS! nothing scarier than a clown...but that is another story!

ya guess its a bad idea, but i think it would be cool.

Didnt know if fish would make it the day.

It would scar the kids forever to be swimmin with 200 dead gold fish.

And for clowns "OH NO" the scare the hell out of me.

thanks Burgess

Bill

It would be a Swim & Sushi party.

I remember a pool party for my YMCA group at a members house. His father put a bunch (10-20) of goldfish into the pool. We chased them around trying to catch them. Although the chlorine did not kill them, the image of fish being squished against the tiles by 10 year old boys trying to grab them is burned into my brain. 40 years later.

I drink pool water all the time & look at me's

Peeing in the pool is fun again thanks to Pablo!

"chlorine kills EVERYTHING,"....ha ha

LMAO!

The pool will be full of little kids , i think i would be more worried about the pee killing the fish.

Bill

I knew it was somethin drnos...... "the image of fish being squished against the tiles by 10 year old boys trying to grab them is burned into my brain. 40 years later."

I thought this was gonna be about another type of pool fish.

billg ,
test your idea while nobody is around!

get about 10 or so and let'em go!
see how long they make it without the young'uns around ......then you can decide.

if they die quick you can skim them out before anyone is the wiser.

thank's for the chuckle!
i think it might work if the clorine wasn't real strong and the water was cool.
but as the day progresses....and water warms up...
dem fishies are gonna die!
imagine being one of those poor little fishies when that chubby kid see's it and does a cannonball!!!

lump fish or brown trout

Yep, just as they get comfortable and are swimmin' around you toss a couple of Baby Ruths in there. LOL

i kinda like dup's idea...i am a scientist...experimentation is good. time it for me, will ya? i reckon if you skipped a chlorine treatment or 2, that may change teh time of death...very intriguing!

I will give it a trial run in a couple weeks when i get the chemicals balanced out.

To be cont.....

Bill

Yep, you'll have a pool full of dead fish and a bunch of traumatized kids on your hands. Get rubber duckies instead.

Not even a good idea...see all of above comments..

Charlie

Not even a good idea...see all of above comments..

Charlie