@NickFun,
NickFun wrote:I had a couple of goldfish in a bowl for about 5 years. Nothing seemed to kill them. Once the bowl froze when I was out of town and the heat went off. When it thawed they were as good as new.
I had goldfish when I was a kid but we got tired of taking care of them, so we released them into a small vernal pond in the front of our house. The pond usually dried up every year, but for a few years in a row it rained enough so that it never dried up. Then it froze every winter.
After a few years it did dry completely and the goldfish showed up in the last bit of mud before all the water was gone. They had grown into 8" long brown carp. Both were still alive. Amazing.