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Is it possible for a fish to live in a glass bowl?

I'm planning to get a fish (gold fish in general) for a pet, and I'm wondering whether it's possible for fishes to live only in a glass bowl, without any electrical aid, like an air pump or oxygen pump. I want something really plain and simple, like the ones you see in movies where the side of the table is decorated by a glass bowl with a fish. So, if I were to get that, will the fish live?

Hi, I hope I can persuade you to change your plans! First off the simple answer to your question is yes it is possible for a fish to live in a glass bowl but it really isn't much of a life. Look at it this way-despite popular belief that fish are stupid, short lived & have a 3 second memory the facts are that fish are extremely intelligent, friendly, inquisitive, long-lived creatures with good memories & can grow well over a foot in length so to incarcerate one in a tiny bowl is plain cruelty.

He will have a miserable short life & will die from either suffocating on his own waste, 'stunting' where his internal organs grow while his body doesn't or he'll simply go stir-crazy in a featureless sphere with nothing to do. Those iconic images of Goldfish in bowls you see in Hollywood movies are borne out of nothing but pure ignorance where the feelings of a living creature are ignored & he is reduced to nothing more than an ornament for our entertainment.

Keeping fish is like looking after any other living creature that we choose to share our lives with-we have a moral duty to provide it with the best possible care & do as much research as we can to that end. No fish deserves anything less than a large, filtered tank with a fitted lid.

The first link tells you in great detail about why bowls are a bad idea all round [pun intended] & the second one shows you some fish that are ideal to keep in unfiltered bowls!

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