Hello. I'm new here. This one plagues me, thus my post.

In the several thousand years of goldfish keeping, no one has developed a breed that can actually be kept in a bowl.

Goldfish are a species that are identified with the bowl, yet of course we know the bowl is inappropriate for their care.

Why?

Not: "Why can't we keep goldfish in a bowl?" but rather, "Why has no one developed a bowl-hardy" species? There are so many types, that the fact that a dwarf, etc. doesn't exist is maddening to me.

It seems like a natural.

I want one. Don't you?