I love my kings!!!
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its 12x7x3ft and 1700+ gallons. The water in that puddle is beng replaced 400 times an hour, it is in a stream, so it can't overheat. It was WAY to hard to get these guys and they'll be lost and eaten extremely fast, it's stocked with rainbow trout fingerlings.
So why you are keeping two salmons in that puddle? Predators will have easy access to these salmon. Small puddles will get overheat very quickly and it is not good for the salmon's health.
How do you not understand what I'm saying? They have rocks to hide under from the non-existant predtaors in the puddle. It is like putting them in a bog filter, there is a constant water flow from the cold pond into the stream so the stream and pond are both 40 something degrees atm. They will go right through the mesh on the livewell atm. They will be moved into the mesh ivewell nce they are big enough because right now they will probably starve to death or be eaten alive!
Rocks won't protect the salmon fry from the predators, especially cats, raccoons, weasels, birds and insects. And you kept illegal undersized gamefish.troppond;5020718; said:
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They are still going to die when summer comes around; they are unable to survive more than a day or two of warm water temperatures in a pond that size.
I thought that I could keep trout in my roughly 96,000 gallon spring-fed pond that's at least 6' deep in the one section (accounts for about two-fifths of the pond), and I found out otherwise the hard way. The water had stayed pretty cold (always under 70°F; usually at 60°F) throughout the previous year, including the summer, so I thought that they would be fine. I ended up losing every single trout that I put in there by the end of the summer that I stocked them when the water stayed above 70°F for days at a time.
So in short, they're going to die by the end of the summer pretty much no matter what you do.
These other posters know their stuff, so you should listen to them when they all agree that these fish are not going to last long.
So if they're going to die then really what am i going to do, i say i have some and have given some info on how to keep them for anyone that could, if they die, oh well, great experiment. I've heard enough about how they're illegal and they're goin to die. If they do, big deal. If they somehow live, that would be great, I've always thought these fish were survivers because they survived 2 days in a water bottle, one day in a washed out coke can, and a 7 hour car ride in the trunk haha. But this was mostly to inform what I have and to tell people that if they have a colder climate, these are keepable fish, not some weak little fry that dies in a day, They didn't have food for 3 days I mean, you really don't even need current, the great lakes don't and thats where these guys go for 2 years. Justt cold, clean, and clear water ad they're keepable if you have the room 
does this pond of yours have a proper aeriation system??? huge fish like that will never survive in a frozen pond without aeriation, if they make ithrough summer. they are cool fish but maybe not the best idea to keep such a massive fish species without the proper housing. we are talking about an extremely deep pond with aeriation for winter, either that or a gigantic indoor tank.
