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Not to be one of those PETA people but I am very against keeping those poor Betas in those small bowls. Would you want to be locked up in a 6x6 room?

he can swim to the other ones!!


but aren't these like those buble vase things? we used to sell them at the home furnishing store where i used to work.

it's still a confining, sterile, artifical environment for a living, feeling creature.

big thumbs down on displaying animals as decor.

(yeah, yeah, yeah ... p2 and everybody else ready to call hypocrite on me: i don't eat, wear or sit on animal parts, ok? even if i did, my opinion would still be worthy.)

I do eat meat but I wouldn't lock any living creature in a very small container for decoration. It's like keeping a bird in a cage - except they don't fly, they swim.

I'm also not a PETA person, but these small bowls seem very cruel.

I have a betta fish, and I keep it in a very large bowl.

Bettas can easily live in a tank with many other tropical fish, just not with another (male?) betta.

Get a 10 gallon tank with a betta and some other small colorful fish and an algae eater. Warning, fish people say that goldfish actually need about 10 gallons each.

For the proper MCM fab feel, your 10 gallon aquarium needs a kissing gourami or two. Happy, friendly, lightly algae-controlling, and kitschy, all in one finny package!