To keep a goldfish in a fish bowl?

i think its worse to keep them out of water

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We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year.

I think it's ok as long as the cat doesn't get them

that is so depressing on so many levels but so true. And I hope the cat don't eat her lol

I was just taking my training for my new job, and our aquatics expert assured me that yes, it's bad to keep goldfish in a bowl. The amount of oxygenated water in a bowl is supposedly not enough to keep a gold fish healthy, and if you have more than one in a bowl it can prohibit their growth.

When I was a kid, I had two goldfish sharing the same bowl (and it wasn't the largest bowl, either). We didn't have a filter or an oxygen pump, either. They seemed to grow up fine until they hit what, back then, to Young Me, was "fully grown". After a while we decided to set them loose in a public pond, and my aquatics expert assured me that was all-around better.

I think I'll use a tank or a large bowl with a filter. I heard so many things about how to look after fish and cats and dogs etc but it's all contradictory. I usually like to go with the flow but with a fish it's totally different lol.

It is wrong to keep any animal cooped up against its will.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, do not release any pet into the wilds. Living here in Florida, unfortunately people will do that. Until the cold winters a few years ago it was kind of cool to see the wild parakeets. The BOA constrictors reeking havoc in the Everglades is not all that great. Releasing a pet that is not native is a cruel thing that you can do to the wildlife and their enviroment

Well I have a goldfish I have kept alive in a bowl for 12 years. Yes the same bowl with the same glass stones and the same plastic plant. And yes I'm quite attached to him. I say him but I'm not actually sure what his gender is. I don't do anything special with his care just feed him and clean his "home" regularly and buy another oxyshell when it runs out. I've had people say over the years how its cruel to keep him in a bowl. I didn't think of it when I was given him as a birthday present. But maybe he is happy and he knows I love him and the life he has with me is better than any life he would have had in any pond. Well that's what I choose to believe anyway

I agree with you wholeheartedly. When I first got my fish I had the wrong information that a goldfishs memory only lasted 3 minutes. So I thought he would have an exciting "new" adventure every 3 minutes and live a life of luxury getting cared for. Now I know for a fact he has a much longer memory than that. I would never want to mistreat any creature but I truly believe after living with me for so long my goldfish wouldn't survive anywhere else. I'm even afraid to buy him a new bowl etc as the change may kill him. I know for a fact I will cry when he does die but I've also read that goldfish can live to be 30 years old so I'm hopeing that won't be for a long time yet.

2019 me. Yes it's wrong. My fish died at 13yrs old after getting sick.

I don't know but I have a friend that has a very large aquarium and he used to have what he called his fish beating stick. It was a quarter inch wood dowel about two feet long, he would drink a case of beer and not really beat the fish but kind of prod them around because of course being fish most of the time they just sit there (float there whatever) and he'd want action out of them which called for the fish beating stick...........

Maybe I should start a new "Is it wrong to beat your fish" thread???

Hey I'm at 200 posts, yee haw!

IS this a SERIOUS question? or a joke?

As opposed to?



It's a member of the carp family.
Natural habitat is streams, ponds, and
lakes.