First fishbowl - help !

[sid]

Hi everyone,

I just bought my first fishbowl yesterday. A 6 litre (~ 1.5 gallon) one. I was uninformed and didnt know what fish to buy. The petshop staff persuaded me to buy 4 pairs of fish and i ended up getting 2 tiger barbs, 2 buones aires tetras, 2 hockeystick tetras and 2 albino redfin sharks. i thought i had made a pretty good choice until this morning when i saw one of the tiger barbs dead

now im beginning to feel really bad about crowding the bowl so much. please advice. what ois the max number of fish i can keep in a 1.5 ga bowl?

Thanks ,

Sid

 

[arcab4]

that's way too many fish in a 1.5gallon tank.

the petshop should be ashamed for selling u that many fish and right when you just got the tank without cycling.

the dead tiger barb is b/c you didn't cycle the tank.

i'd recommend you get at least a 10 gallon tank as the bare minimum for that many fishes. but w/o cycling the tank..i am afraid for the rest of your fishes unfortunately.

How Many Fish Can You Keep In A Fish Tank?

and google cycling fish tank and read up on the process.

keep us updated. good luck.

 

[FreshyFresh]

Bowls are for Cheerios, not fish.

 

[upside-down catfish]

i put about one inch of fish per gallon

 

[CAPSLOCK]

See if the store will let you return the fish, since they sold you a bunch of fish totally unsuited to the environment. 7 fish breathing / eating / producing waste in that bowl will make it toxic rather quickly, and the rest will follow that first tiger barb. Otherwise you're looking at doing 90% water changes each day indefinitely. Afterwards, try to find a different store as that one is obviously either completely unethical or completely uneducated regarding their stock. The bowl is really only suited for a betta (and that's if it is heated / the house is kept at 70F+) or something like a few white cloud minnows or similar if it's unheated.

 

[Newman]

while you can keep stuff like endlers or a betta in that bowl, I recommend you make it a planted bowl with cherry shrimp or other freshwater shrimp

 

[FreshyFresh]

Just as an example, for a short time I kept a small comet goldfish in a 2.5gal bowl with some gravel and a fake plant out of one of my established tanks. If I didn't do a fin-level WC daily, it would start to register ammonia.

IMO, 2.5 gallons is one of your larger bowls too.