What kind of beautiful and colorful fish can live in a fish bowl? I want to get a fish bowl for my little cousin. I want the fish to be easy to take care of and I want it to be colorful. Can guppies live in fish bowls? No goldfish please.
Can I put 2 guppies in a fish bowl?
Get a betta. (A single one.) These are the easiest fish in the world to care for, they don't require a filter as long as the water is changed every week at least; and they only need fed a tiny amount once or twice a day. And there's that many colours and varieties of the betta fish, as well, anything from your normal veiltail pet shop variety (in many types of colours) to double-tail and half moon (tail spread being 180 degrees or more) in more specialised colours, which you can buy on places like www.aquabid.com . Our local petshops are starting to carry crown tail as well, but I don't know whether they would in your area or not. You can choose colourful rocks and that, too, best bet is to let your cousin go to the pet shop with you and pick out the rocks (you can use marbles, even, if you want, there's glass aquarium beads they sell at some pet shops as well); and an artificial plant or two for the bowl (artificial plants are much easier to care for than a live plant, especially for a child.)
Bettas are hardy, colourful fish, with long, flowing fins, that are probably the easiest fish to care for. The ideal pet for a child; or any age, for that matter. Great stuffs!
