Can I Keep a Common Goldfish in a Goldfish Bowl?
December 13, 2011 
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why does it matter, they are 25 cents.
You would need a blubber to give the goldfish air but think it would be fine otherwise
It is not a good idea. If by common goldfish you mean a comet, than those fish get to be a foot long. Believe me, I have many of them full grown in an outdoor pond. You will need at least a 20 gallon tank, and a very good filter. Goldfish produce a lot of waste and quickly dirty up their water.
If kept in a bowl a goldfish can actually poison itself with it’s own waste. Being kept in too small a space can stunt the goldfish’s growth and shorten it’s life span, which is normally about twenty years.
I used to have goldfish, and I had a small aquarium (1 gallon tank) and the filter. They did ok. I had to clean it often because goldfish are a messy sort of fish. They are fun to watch and and can make the room attractive.
I don’t see why you cant use a bowl. I have never heard that they were bad. A tank is better. Even if goldfish are a cheap pet, I guess a fish is still a life and you should want to take care of it…I think you do because you asked. Besides setting up an aquarium does have costs and you don’t want to keep buying fish.
Goldfish are very dirty fish and keeping them in a small fishbowl would be safe but not very healthy for the fish. If you are looking for a fish to keep in a bowl like that you should consider a beta, they do much better is a small bowl as long as you feed lightly and clean the water often!
do not keep goldfish in a goldfish bowl.
get a decent sized aquarium with a filter.
goldfish produce a lot of waste.
keeping them in a bowl is cruel and bad for their health.
it is not a rumour, its a fact!
it’s not really safe. bettas are basically the only fish that can live in bowls, because in the wild they live in very small puddles. a gold fish needs 10 gallons of room at a minimum, with a good filter and aeration system, otherwise you’re killing them.
The bowls are too small for goldfish, you need a much larger tank like 10 – 20 gallons.
common goldfish can get up to 2 feet long why are you people suggesting tanks just as long as the fish?!?!?!
no, do not keep ANY fish in a bowl…
bettas DO NOT come from ‘puddles’ they come several million gallon rice paddies and rivers..
It’s not a rumor, it’s fact. You cannot healthily and humanely keep a common goldfish in anything under 20 gallons.
Thats easy You CAN’T…well you can but its cruel.
Many people have the notion that keeping goldfish in a “goldfish bowl” is an acceptable thing to do. This is a misperception that is likely to have come from our being weaned on too many cute graphic depictions of a lone goldfish sashaying about contentedly in a glass bowl, in popular comic books and TV cartoon series.
They Eat a lot, and They Grow Bigger
Goldfish need sufficient room to swim around – the optimum amount of space should be about 20 to 30 gallons of water per fish in an aquarium. These fish are voracious feeders. As they grow, they will eat just about anything else that’s edible in the aquarium, so they will keep on growing in size too. Some species are capable of growing to well over 12 inches in length over a 15-30 year time span.
Most goldfish kept in bowls do not survive long because of poor water quality and other accompanying factors. Unlike the betta, which can breathe at the surface of the water, goldfish do not thrive well in small containers.
Goldfish excrete larger amounts of waster products than smaller tropical fish. The larger waste output results in higher level of ammonia being produced. Thus, if you keep your goldfish in a smaller aquarium, you will have to maintain it better, and make more frequent water changes.
Though goldfish may be hardy, they will be happier and healthier in an aquarium that’s properly equipped with a filtration and aeration system—which will keep the water clean and maintain a sufficient amount of oxygen for the fish.
And nevermind what it can do to the vision of the poor fish. get a tank or don’t own fish.