fish suggestions for small bowl

Fish:

  • Male Betta

    Votes: 9 31.0%

  • Female Betta

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • A few Cherry Red Shrimp

    Votes: 9 31.0%

  • Other (POST!!!)

    Votes: 11 37.9%
  • Total voters
    29
test4echo

test4echo

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I have a small bowl (about a quart) that is currently empty except for some java moss growing on a small piece of driftwood. I would appreciate any suggestions/ comments you may have of fish to put in there. The space is just enough for a fully grown male betta. This bowl has no lid nor heater and is a Marineland Betta Sphere in case anyone wants to know. The fish listed above in the poll are just ideas i have thought of so far and would like any input on other fish that would be compatible in this evironment. Thanks for your suggestions.
 
That bowl is smaller than 1 gallon and isn't really appropriate for anything to live in aside from your java moss. Bettas need a heater and at the bare minimum 2.5 gallons of water to be happy and lead normal lives.

Edited to change my reply - didn't realize the bowl was that small until I looked it up.
 
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Seriously, just because you have an empty container doesn't mean you have to fill it. It is a tiny bowl and as mentioned above not suitabel for anything.

Fill it with water and a glass fish with a float, fill it with pretty rocks, fill it with goldfissh crackers.
 
You could go to a ditch and catch aquatic beetles and water boatmen. I've done that when I was younger and they are fun to watch. Feed them little pieces of worm, mosquito larva, and if I remember right I think that they will eat tadpole snails and if they don't the snails would be another good inhabitant. You'll need to either find a tupperware lid that fits or rubberband a piece of cloth on the top.
 
I chose other - get some real use out of it and fill it with soup.
 
too small for anything really. my first instinct was a couple shrimp, but cherries get to be a couple inches loong full grown and wouldn't fit very well. I'd say use it as an aquatic plant container. keep the moss, and maybe you can add another small bit of foliage to go in there and have a nice litte aquatic garden in there :)
 
Nothing honestly. anything you put in there would die a slow painful death.
 
i second and third and fourth the motions for NOTHING BREATHING!
 
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