That bowl is DEFINITELY not enough space. If you have five goldfish, it would be better to have a 30 gallon tank, and even that may still be too small. Goldfish grow to be really big and can live for yeeaaars.
If their going to the top of the water, that means they need more air in their water. You should purchase a sponge filter of some kind or a bubble curtain to add oxygen into the water.

You really should have researched them before you bought that many goldfish. If you are really serious in taking proper care of these goldfish, you are going to have to spend a lot more money. If you have any questions I can see what I can help you out with!

they are probably bored. thats a guess. I had fish jump out when i moved them into an area with more fish. i dunno why maybe they need space? like separate bowls?

Fish usually sip air when they don't have enough oxygen in the water.

Try live plants or a bubbler.

You can get the supplies for a a bubbler here: [link] you basically just need tubing and an air pump.

Five goldfish in a bowl.. Goldfish can grow very big. Even the fancy ones can get to 25+cm if kept properly (although it depends on the species, some stay a tad smaller, but still get very big). They don't belong in a bowl.
It's probably a good idea to save up for a big tank or bring the fish to a pond. (I'm not sure where you live, if it's really cold you have to wait until spring).

Do you have a filter in your bowl? If not, buy a filter in a pet store. In the filter bacteria lives that convert the waste of the fish (ammonia) to nitrate. Plants absorb nitrate.
If your filter doesn't fit in a bowl, go buy a watertight plastic box. Like these: [link]
They are pretty cheap and it'll give your fish much more space.

In my goldfish tank, I measure a minimum of 50 liters (about 13 gallon) per fish. That seems much for a small fish, but small fish need space to grow. Also, goldfish produce a lot of waste and that's why they need so much space.
Another thing is that goldfish produce 'growth hormone'. When they grow, they produce growth hormones, and it will build up in the water. When there's too much of this hormone in the water, the fish will stunt. That means that the body of the fish stops growing, but their fins, eyes and organs keep growing. That way, stunting can cause very serious damage to the fish.

For now on, do a 50% water change every day. Make sure that the water is the same temperature as the water in the tank (goldfish don't like temperature changes). That can already help a lot.

Here are some sites that can help you:
[link] Goldfish and Aquarium Board. A lot of articles about how to keep goldfish the proper way, diseases and more stuff.
[link] Kokosgoldfish, a forum about goldfish. It's very informative, and there's a lot of information too.
[link] A very informative site.

I hope I've helped you with this and your goldfish get happy and healthy

Also, I second the plant idea. Though, in my experience, the fish mostly just like them for a treat. Ask at your local pet shop (preferably find a fish specialist shop) to find the right plants for goldfish. But that's another way to protect them and get some more oxygen in the water.

And definitely, since I saw you were saving for a bigger tank, try to find something that will blow bubbles or similar into the water.

I suggest a tank for the fish. While I don't think it's your intent, a bowl just isn't that great for goldfish (not trying to get on you about it or anything). I had 2 fish in a tank, not sure what size it was but it was 10 or 20 galons. We had a water filter for them too, which is nice because it oxygenates the water AND helps keep it clean. They cost about $100 and the filter packs need to be changed regularly, it's not super cheap, but it's definitely worth it if you care about your fish.

We also had this nifty fish vacuum that made cleaning the tank a lot easier since you didn't have to scoop out the fish, just use the water itself to "vacuum" the gravel.

Anyways, I won fish vouchers at a school fair when I was in 1st grade, and we exchanged them for $0.25 feeder goldfish. They died when I was a sophomore in high school, the first of cancer, the second of loneliness.

But they gulped all the time. It's pretty normal for fish. But I would suggest a bigger tank and a filter since that way you know the water has enough oxygen in it. It really has to have some source of movement.

I'm not a fish expert, but that's what we did and they lived a good while so I figure we did something right. They also got lots of love and let me pet them occasionally.

The ratio for small goldfish to water should be 20 gallons for the first two fish, and an extra ten gallons for each fish. this means that:
1 goldfish = 20 gallons
2 goldfish = 20 gallons
3 goldfish = 30 gallons

You have to have good filter too.


The reason why you need a very good filter and so much water is because of three reasons:
1. Most importantly, goldfish are a type carp. Carp are dirty fish. If you have them in little amounts of water, without a filter, the waste products in the water will get too high, and it will make your fish sick, and eventually die.

2. Goldfish can grow very large. Fish produce a hormone that goes into the water. When there is not enough water, this hormone builds up and stops them from growing. However, when fish are exposed to high levels of this hormone for long periods of time, your fish can get sick and die.

3. It's much easier to look after tanks between 20 gallons -100 gallons. Tanks smaller than that are hard to look after, because things go wrong with the water more. (pet stores push small bowls and tanks because they know that
smaller = cheaper to buy = more people will buy = more profit


Also, you should never have a bowl, because it reduces the amount of oxygen ( bowl = less surface area = less oxygen)

For 5 goldfish, a bowl that's only about a foot wide ISN'T much space at all. Just because they aren't gill to gill doesn't mean that they have enough space. Maybe you should have researched goldfish more before buying 5 of them.