u/Eagle406

Beginner here trying to salvage a bizarre situation:

I was out of town for a few weeks and when I came back home my best friend had set up a small barrel pond on our porch with some duckweed, lucky bamboo, and hornwart. It's cute enough and she has a solar-powered bubbler running to it to keep it oxygenated.

Now a few problems:

• The Pond gets zero sun. Even the solar bubbler had to be run several feet away out from under the balcony it's set up under.
• There are no outlets anywhere nearby so I can't hook a filter or a heater up to it.
• It's about 15-20 gallons outside in Los Angeles. It doesn't get cold enough to freeze here but it's reasonably chilly during the winter and I think anything we put in it will die from exposure sooner or later.

She has already released about 8 gold and white cloud minnows into it and a handful of ghost and cherry shrimp (which you can't see at all lol) and she's saying she wants to put more fish in soon. How do I keep these fish from dying. Is this fated to be doomed? Thank you in advance.

Beginner here trying to salvage a bizarre situation:

I was out of town for a few weeks and when I came back home my best friend had set up a small barrel pond on our porch with some duckweed, lucky bamboo, and hornwart. It's cute enough and she has a solar-powered bubbler running to it to keep it oxygenated.

Now a few problems:

• The Pond gets zero sun. Even the solar bubbler had to be run several feet away out from under the balcony it's set up under.
• There are no outlets anywhere nearby so I can't hook a filter or a heater up to it.
• It's about 15-20 gallons outside in Los Angeles. It doesn't get cold enough to freeze here but it's reasonably chilly during the winter and I think anything we put in it will die from exposure sooner or later.

She has already released about 8 gold and white cloud minnows into it and a handful of ghost and cherry shrimp (which you can't see at all lol) and she's saying she wants to put more fish in soon. How do I keep these fish from dying. Is this fated to be doomed? Thank you in advance.