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Gold Fish, Tank or Bowl?
« on: 14 August 2012, 04:03:28 PM »
Do you keep your goldfish in a tank/bowl?

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Re: Gold Fish, Tank or Bowl?
« Reply #1 on: 14 August 2012, 04:08:51 PM »
One goldfish only needs about 3 gallons of water to comfortably live in, per inch of body length. That could be a larger bowl, and if you use a clip-on filtration and oxygenation system, well, there you go.

So, I keep mine in a bowl.

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Re: Gold Fish, Tank or Bowl?
« Reply #2 on: 14 August 2012, 04:35:00 PM »
My fish are in a tank. I'll take a picture of it someday.

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Re: Gold Fish, Tank or Bowl?
« Reply #3 on: 14 August 2012, 04:40:28 PM »
One goldfish only needs about 3 gallons of water to comfortably live in, per inch of body length. That could be a larger bowl, and if you use a clip-on filtration and oxygenation system, well, there you go.

So, I keep mine in a bowl.

Ok well this is tank in my opinion lets just do this:

Bowl = 1 gallon

Tank = 3+ gallons with filtration and oxygenation system



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Re: Gold Fish, Tank or Bowl?
« Reply #4 on: 14 August 2012, 04:47:14 PM »
I always saw tanks and bowls as two different shapes of containers... I mean, bowl by definition implies a curved, round shape. Tank, by contrast, is a square or rectangular container. Tanks can hold more water, but bowls can't get very big - 3 or 4 gallons is the maximum.

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Re: Gold Fish, Tank or Bowl?
« Reply #5 on: 14 August 2012, 04:50:22 PM »
I always saw tanks and bowls as two different shapes of containers... I mean, bowl by definition implies a curved, round shape. Tank, by contrast, is a square or rectangular container. Tanks can hold more water, but bowls can't get very big - 3 or 4 gallons is the maximum.

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