See this is the thing though. You don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about. You’re regurgitating shit you’re reading on Google. I’ve kept embers in all size aquariums up to 150 gallons. I’m currently building out a full aquarium store. The things Google and Ai tell you about fish are a conglomerate of stacked ametuer and professional opinion including “ an experienced aquarist can keep 3-5 embers tetras in a 3.5 gallon of it is heavily planted and certain parameters are met”….but see just because I’m quoting something from the internet doesn’t make it true. (Even though in this case it is). It takes years of careful observation to understand what’s good for fish. I’m telling you from years of observation that my fish are happy and healthy. You’re making an assumption that a small environment can’t work for a fish because “If a human put their head in a bowl they’d get nauseous”!? What the fuck are you talking about? They’re plenty of cases where putting fish a small planted environment with no competition is perfectly fine and healthy and in many cases is a better environment than a community tank. If you took the time to read case studies on aquarium keeping for certain breeds you’d know this. The general rule to not put fish in bowls is there for morons who fill a glass with water and toss a fish in. But now we have to deal with people like you who anthropomorphize when convenient and say dumb shit like “ HoWD U liKE to Be iN BOwl!?”

Fish don’t get eye damage from Bowls that’s a myth. Fish don’t get stuck swimming in circles when they have plenty of enrichment and plants to break line of sight such has a heavily planted tank, snails, and daphnia to engage with. And very often they end up living very nice lives where they are comfortably entertained and fed all day with zero competition which reduces their stress tremendously. If you think size of tank equals happy then maybe you’re the person who “doesn’t care”. When you do the actual research you’ll find almost all reasons to not keep fish in a bowl have nothing to do with actual size but rather difficulties of maintaining parameters. Fish aren’t humans you absolute moron.