hi,

Your pond sounds like a very nice place for fish in general, but you also listed a lot of potential predators that could eat the goldfish. Unless they are regular common or comet goldfish that are 10-12 inches long, my feeling is that they will be preyed up by their predators very quickly. If any of the goldfish is the fancy type, it will have next to zero chance of survival.

Maybe he can post an ad for his area on craigslist's website (it's a free website much like ebay where you can post ads). If he lists the fish as free, i'm sure there will be plenty of people willing to adopt them and give them a good home. If he tries to sell them , then it could take a little longer.

I hope this helps a bit in your decision.

Hi there,
I had a goldfish which lived in our pond for 5 years!! after the first year the pond's pump broke. I just left it as is. only feeding our fish probably once a month a tiny piece of flake food. Never ever cleaning the pond. He loved eating the build up of algae on the pond. what we think is dirty is a great home for fish. during this period of time my gold fish had almost tripled in size.