Comments on: Are You Keeping Your Goldfish In A Glass Bowl?

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:05:42 +0000

My daughter won a “free” goldfish at a fair. We went to the pet store and got a bowl, some gravel, and some food–everyone had warned us that the goldfish would probably die in a couple of days anyway so we were afraid to really splurge. Well… FOUR YEARS LATER our fish is still around. We finally decided to upgrade her to an aquarium (5 gallon) with a built in filtration system. It’s been about 12 hours and I hate to say this, but she seems depressed! We used to call her the “bloopy” fish –when you walked into the room she would go crazy trying to get your attention. She didn’t eat this morning–not typical for her at all. Should I give her a chance to get used to it, or put her back in her old bowl?

By: jordan

jordan — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:14:20 +0000

we have 2 goldfish and now im real scared because we have been keeping them in a glass bowl for 1 day now !

By: ban bowls

ban bowls — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:51:38 +0000

a 60×30x30 cm aquarium is NOT suitable for 5 to 6 goldfish. single tailed goldfish can reach up to 12 inches, double tailed, (fancy) gldfish can reach up to 10 inches. An aquarium of that size, approx 58 litres, has no where near enough room for 5 or 6 full grown goldfish, there’s not enough room for one!

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:42:26 +0000

If bowls should be banned, then so should ALL aquariums, regardless of size!

By: Jan from aquarium

Jan from aquarium — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:31:34 +0000

Nicely written article. But you could go far deeper and mention Bettas as well. They’re kept in small-sized bowls as well and even they don’t grow as large as Goldfish do, they require space as well.

Also, if the pressure (higher aquarium = more pressure) is high, the fish grows bigger. It’s the same situation like with Freshwater Sharks; If they’re kept in small aquariums, they can’t grow big and they feel stressed usually. As you move them into bigger aquarium, they’ll return you this favour in their behaviour (growth, appetite and so on).

Maybe it could be a good idea to ban all small aquariums at all. I would recommend to buy 35 L fish tank at least.

By: John

John — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 20:36:07 +0000

Excellent-we at ‘Totally Goldfish’ welcome the end of the fish bowl!

By: Mermaid

Mermaid — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 06:08:07 +0000

Running campaign is expensive and time consuming. Unfortunately, everyone is waiting for that someone to start the ball rolling.

Thanks for dropping by, Samit.

By: Samit

Samit — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:40:46 +0000

Nice article! And kudos to the people of Monza! There should a be a strong campaign against keeping gold fishes in glass bowl!