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A box of water where you pay rent for fish that don't know you exist.
means A transparent tank or building designed to hold water and display living fish, plants, or other aquatic creatures.
from Built from Latin 'aqua' meaning water, with the '-arium' suffix Latin uses for 'a place belonging to.' The same suffix gives us 'aviary' (a place for birds) and 'terrarium' (a place for earth-dwellers). The word itself is a relatively modern coinage — 19th-century naturalists needed a tidy label once glass tanks made it possible to watch underwater life from the dry comfort of a parlor.
- first public one
- London Zoo opened one in 1853
- weight problem
- a full 100-gallon tank weighs over 800 pounds
- fish memory myth
- goldfish actually remember things for months
- biggest tank
- Georgia Aquarium holds 6.3 million gallons of water