If you freeze a gold fish and then unthaw it will come back to life?
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Since people didn't like my maybe answer, I will try again... No, the gold fish will not come back to life.
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No, almost certainly not. The main reason, I believe, is that the expanding ice crystals will destroy its cellular structure. On top of that, its heart will have stopped, and do you know goldfish CPR? I don't.
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Definitely not. But there are some frogs that you can do this to and they will come back to life.
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Oh sure...give it a little CPR maybe some TLC.
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If you freeze a goldfish and the "unthaw" it-wouldn't you be refreezing it? So then technically, the answer is no, frozen fish do not move!
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If you look into this a little more you will find out that they do indeed "come back to life" (I don't think they actually die). Anyway, my grandpa does this with a small pond in his yard. The goldfish (regular wal-mart goldfish) freeze in the winter and start swimming around again when the ice melts in the spring.
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Yes. It fucking does.
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NOT. no it will not come back to life.
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I had a koi that I found floating on it's side just under the ice 2 winters ago, I thought it was dead, but I brought it inside in some of the cold pond water and let it warm up very gradually. I still have that Koi and it seems none the worse for this incidence, but i bring all my fish inside for the winter since that time.
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You cannot freeze a fish completely, to where it's little heart stops beating, and have it come magically back to life. You can slow down it's biological processes a great deal, but not freeze it completely.
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just ate a goldfish and swallowed it when it was frozen and then it came back to life and then i shit it out and it was swimming in my toilet. Perfect evidence
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No, it's dead. They don't like it very cold.
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It works with giant cockroaches. As for goldfish, I'm not going to try it...interesting, conflicting answers, though.
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my fish pond once got frozen over one winter, with goldfish in it, so i broke the ice, sprinkled some Aspro painkillers in it, and hey presto they cme back to life!
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no, if you (absolutly) freeze a goldfish ( in the twenties to zero and below,for 72 hours or longer), it will not come back to life..Now you can semifreeze(looks like their frozen) some gold fish will survive...Kinda a wierd deal with gold fish,but it all depends on condition of the fish and how frozen it really is.To be safe ,get a heater(300 to 1500 watt) depending on pool/pond size,that aleast leaves a hole in ice (larger than heater)to vent the pond ,so that gases vent out and fish can get extra air.
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no it dead but if you have a pond and the water has some sort of movement under the ice and ajr supply they will be fine as they are a cold water fish
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yes me too and YES COMPLETELY FROZEN you just have to freeze it so every cell in its body stops completely at the same time but when you thaw it it has to be in just the right amount of time that way its blood will start to flow at the exact time as its heart starts. you risk severe skin cell damage due to the sharp ice crystals .Another risk is blood clots if the blood is still somewhat frozen and the heart sarts to beat. your best bet would to be using liquid nitrogen or you can make your own(learn how on youtube search poor man's liquid nitrogen)
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My little above-ground pond (about 5 ft across and a foot deep) often freezes solid in the winter - absolutely, undoubtedly solid, 2-3 weeks of -10C or colder with continuous strong winds - and the goldfish are just fine every year when the ice melts.
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My guess is no. So far no animal of any complexity can survive the freezing process.
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