Looking for tubs - too good to be true?

[Danio Janet]

Hello all! I am looking for some tubs to burry at my home in the Willamette Valley (Oregon) to keep fish over the winter outside. I found this post on Facebook marketplace and I am wondering if the tubs would be safe for ornamental fish. 🤔 my gut says that this is too good to be true. Am I wrong - or did I find the best deal ever? 

 

 

Edited August 13, 2021 by Wildflowergraham

[MoshJosh]

I don’t know much about polymer, but I assume if you thoroughly cleaned them they would work. . . At least that’s my thinking. . . 

[Guppysnail]

I read on a thread here about someone using a heavy duty tub that the tub itself leaches chlorine? I believe. I would ask what they are made of to be certain but that sounds like you did find the best deal ever 😁

[Andy's Fish Den]

A lot of people in the hobby use the IBC totes to store water as well as keep fish in outside etc. However, I would get one that is food grade and had been used for some kind of food item. If you do want to try it out since $50 is cheap for one, get it , rinse out really well, put some water in and let circulate and add a few cheap fish to make sure its not leeching something that will kill them.