Grrr why are they selling small bowls !

I need to get this out of my system .So today I went to a pet store and I saw these very very small bowls ..I mean betta can't even move ,The bowl where horribly its less then 1/2 gallon and that't all ready small / I try to get a picture but they said I can't ;- ( Any ways some one was buying a betta and they where talk to the keeper the pet shop people said that they live in small ponds and small are good .I just want to go there and say its animal cruel ( yes they live in ponds but most of the ponds med size not super small .and come on most of the betta was sick ( one looks like it has fin rot ,3 had ick.2 was laying down and the last one was a lovely looking rain bow betta ( he was laying down and I can see his coat is has some back stuff on it Really want him but did't have the money for a crown tail ( they only had a few healthy betta that was there was maybe 3-4 ..Back to the story when the pet store person went away I went to the person and said if youe buying a betta please buy lest 5 gallon for him ,The bowls and tank that they are selling to small.

Please if you see some who is buy a betta and is going to buy a tank for it ,I know its hard but try to talk to them ,as it may make a different (It can be life or death ) .We don't need any more betta die .Stand up for betta .

Trying to not use bowls aay more but e I at lest use a 5 gallon bowl and a heater

 

MomI are you french canadian?

 

Bowls are so horrible Even my LFS, which always has perfectly helpful bettas and is very informative on everything, sells these horrible tiny bowls that are about the same volume as the cups they are sold in. It truly is animal abuse, and it is tragic

 

MomI are you french canadian?

Am a canadian but I do not speak french

 

Bowls are horrible but my betta does very well in a 2.5 gallon tank, filtered and heated. He has since been moved to a 10 gallon, but he was totally calm and I can't describe it, but he was content in the 2.5 and I loved looking at him in the 2.5.
I have two other bettas in a 5.5 and a 4.

 

I saw one tank the other day with millions of bettas that all looked beat up, it didn't look great either. :/

 

I don't like that most fish stores keep bettas in those small bowls with hardly room to turn around either. I just got one last Thursday and put him in a 10 gallon tank I had set up for one. He really seems to like being able to swim around.

 

I Just got one male betta (not sure what to name him yet ) He in a 2 gallon aquarium with a sponge filter and a heater ;-) doing petty good for the 2 day .Long ride home for him .and it was hard to go up to people but I did't want there betta to die ..They will just get a new one and it will happen the same thing..Bowl should be off the betta list and the pet store people should not be sell bowls ,they should support not using betta bowls so people can learn that they do not do well ?

 

I dunno why they sell those ugly awful bowls you can't even do anything to them! No fish should ever be placed in a bowl ever

 

Bowls are basically death traps...

 

I talked about potentially starting a desktop aquarium for my son's desk (thinking a few gallons but probably less than 10, but not much in there either) and my friend's "advice" appalled me: "get him a betta. Oh, and I saw these cute bowls at Petsmart the other day that would be perfect for it!" These are what she forwarded to me:

They are only a half gallon! While I know that's still roomier than most bettas get, if this bowl was only about 10 times the size then we'd be set. But at only a half gallon as it is? Maybe it'd be better suited to growing some herbs indoors or one of those terrariums with nothing living in them but the mossy looking plants and cute figurine setup. I spent quite awhile trying to reeducate my friend. I can only hope she listened and in the mean time, be glad she doesn't own bettas herself.

 

yeah... I was at walmart the other day and saw someone getting a tiny tiny little square tank.. it had a hood, but no filter or heater. poor fish.. it took me everything to keep from saying anything... people have there own choice... and that lady didn't look like she was one who would change her mind easily... sad sad stories... :'(

 

I dunno why they sell those ugly awful bowls you can't even do anything to them! No fish should ever be placed in a bowl ever

Bowl shows; a staple of nearly every club.

 

Bowl shows; a staple of nearly every club.

Yes very true

 

I dunno why they sell those ugly awful bowls you can't even do anything to them! No fish should ever be placed in a bowl ever

I will admit to one exception: the only time I have EVER owned a bowl specific to a fish was simply to keep it contained while I cleaned the tank years ago. That betta was way either way too curious about what I was doing and regarded the siphon as his own personal carnival ride or saw it as an invader attacking his home, I could never figure out which. No matter what I tried to do, he would always find a way to purposely swim directly in the path of the gravel vac, even at more than one point jumping out of a floating breeder net to come swim straight into the siphon. Thankfully, I was able to see him coming and remove it from the water before he could get sucked up but I was always worried one day I wouldn't spot him in time and he would end up getting hurt or worse. I just bought a decorative bowl we jokingly referred to as "his vacation home" and he was in it for all of 10 minutes or less, had clean, pure, dechlorinated water, aerator, a small bunch of Mondo grass to hide behind or between if stressed or bored and a leaf hammock to rest on near the surface if he chose. Even then, he was only in long enough for me to use the gravel vac without having to worry about sucking him up with it and as soon as his regular tank was refilled with fresh water, he was back from his "vacation."