Aquariums Facts

Aquariums come in all shapes and sizes. The largest aquarium in the world is the Georgia Aquarium located in Georgia. Between fresh and seawater, it holds 8 million gallons of water. That's a large aquarium.

As aquariums became more trendy, businesses started putting them in their offices and either wall mounting them so that they look like part of the wall, or using them to actually create a partition between two spaces of office. Some of the aquariums are so large, a diver needs to get into scuba gear to go in to clean it.

While eating dinner at the Rain Forest Cafe, in Disneyland CA, we watched a diver scrub the corals in what was one very large aquarium. As your walking into the restaurant, the aquarium actually runs over the entrance so you so can look up and see fish. That was an interesting way to use an aquarium as part of the dinning structure.

Saltwater aquariums require a bit more planning if your going to tropical fish and keep the healthy as well as the tank clean. You also need to monitor the waters chemical make up more so than a fresh water tank. While the reefs and corals look really nice, if your not into detail and spending time on it, then you might want to look at a fresh water aquarium instead.

The basics for an fish a aquarium are pretty simple. You need the aquarium, aquarium rocks for the bottom, some fact plants and structure fish can hide in, a air pump and some chemicals to remove the chlorine from the water. You can buy full kits in stores like Petsmart that come with everything you need. Of course that is a very basic set up. Some setups can get pretty complex depending on what your going to keep in it.

Aquariums are used for more than fish these days. You can recreate the type of environment needed to keep snakes, turtles, frogs and whole host of other animals.

Our own venture into keeping frogs turned out with a triple frog homicide. My daughter knocked the plug to the air pump out of the wall and before we noticed it, we had three frogs floating belly up. I tell her she committed a triple frog homicide. We decided not to keep frogs and went back to fish which are not so sensitive to the changes in the tank like frogs are.