If i get one fish and keep the bowl clean...wil it smell out my room??

Question

i saw this pink fish today that you can get in this cool pink bowl with loads of lik pink rocks and stuff..i think it would look cool in my room but i know fish tanks can kinda smell sometimes and i dont want it to reck my room.....if i just get one fish in a bowl and keep it clean will it smell????

Answer 1

You can keep one fish in a bowl if it is the right size for the fish and your fish tank will never smell your out you rom if you use a little fish salt from the pet shop is the best place to ask

Answer 2

No, it wont, it might smell alittle while you are doing the cleaning but other than that it shouldnt smell!

Answer 3

fish livening don't usually smell to bad  especially fresh watter clean watter fish  unless they die and sit there for a long time

Answer 4

I don't know where you encountered a fish tank that smelled, but they were obviously not cleaning it enough!  I have plenty of fish tanks and none of them smell!  But that's not the only thing wrong with your question.  Fish do not belong in bowls.  If you found a cute little pink bowl you want to keep in your room, fine.  Buy it and fill it with candy or pink rocks or pretty glass marbles, or whatever you want.  Just not live fish.  If you want to keep a live fish in your room, get a fish tank.  At least 5 gallons, complete with a filter and heater.

Answer 5

I couldn't have said it better, Jon V!

A fish bowl will smell worse than any tank. Bowls have no filtration or aeration, this makes pollutants and wastes build up much faster than it would in a tank. Bowls are also unhealthy for the fish- they get to swim around in their waste and leftover food. The only fish capable of even surviving this for very long is a betta- but it would still have a shortened life span because of it.

Answer 6

Lady,

You have deeper worries and concerns then if your place is going to smell.  Bowls are for soup and cereal, NOT FOR FISH.  How about we make your room, half your closet, and lets make sure you have 0 ventilation in that place.  That's pretty effectively what you do to a fish when you keep it in a bowl.  Freshwater, saltwater, coldwater, or tropical, ALL fish belong in filtered tanks.  If you don't have room or time to maintain a tank properly, fish are not the pet you should be looking for.

Ty success,  Baffy, even a Betta, which is a tropical fish, needs filtration and a heater.  Filtration isn't so much about keeping proper O2 levels as it is keeping the nitrogen compounds cleared out.  You can't build up any beneficial bacteria in a bowl because there is no filtration.  You said what you had to say very well, but seriously, all fish need filtration, some may not need the heater, like goldfish and other cold water types.  To skip filtration though is going to lead to very bad results.

Answer 7

Chances are it might still smell, especially if your fish gets sick.

Answer 8

Hi,

How about a 10 gallon tank, and a filter, and a heater and you can get a beautiful Betta fish. All fish need filtration and enough space to swim, that a bowl can't offer. Good Luck on choosing your fish.

10 gallon 9.99 at Wal-mart

Filter 9.00 at Wal-mart

Heater 10.00 Wal-mart

Gravel (optional) 2.99 Wal-mart

Fish Food 2.00 Wal-mart

Also if you get a tank, cleaning it will be much easier then a fish bowl. Your suppose to clean a fish bowl every 2 days, and just imagine a fish swimming around in it's on urine and f***s if it was in a bowl. A tank should be cleaned every 7 days, with 25% of water siphoned out. Remember to buy conditioner drops, to take out the harsh chemicals in your tap water. Being a fish parent is hard work, I hope your ready.

Answer 9

Hi Xyz,

You would be fine to do that dependant on the fish?  Do you know what it was as it may require filtration and a heater.  I only tell you as it would be a shame for you to buy the fish and then it die on you :-(  If it does not require these items i.e like a betta (siamese fighter) then you would be okay.  Although it would be vital to do a weekly water change.  10% of the size of the bowl/tank and then add the same amount back of semi warm water, not hot.  Only feed the fish the amount it will eat, no more as you will find this can cause the tank to smell.

Apart from that your good to go.

Hope this helps :-)

Answer 10

I just got a 4 gallon bowl, but I also bought a mini filter for it. This way, the fish have much better lives, you won't have to change the tank as often, and you're not as limited on what types of fish you can get.

As for the smell, mine doesn't. As long as you keep it clean, it will be fine, especially if you only have one fish.  

Answer 11

Fish tanks/bowls always stink if they're healthy, but only if you put your nose right up to the water. Fish bowls are okay for 1 goldfish, don't get any more. Clean it every week, with 5% water changes every other day. Make sure the water doesn't ahve any chlorine or chloramine in it. Fish forget almost everything except instinct stuff like "eat, sleep, breed, breath, exhale", so they forget the entire tank/bowl with every round around the tank, so, they don't care if its sorta small.

Answer 12

It shouldn't. We have two large tanks at my mother's and they are kept clean and the room does not smell at all.