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