An Aquarium is a type of enclosure that includes at least on side that is transparent. An Aquarium contains attractive aquatic plants and animals, especially fish are kept. Aquariums may also contain marine animals, invertebrates and amphibians. Aquarium, which has a long interesting past, is loved by all, and a person who takes interest in owning and maintaining aquariums is commonly known as an aquarist. Available in various shapes, sizes and materials, the aquariums are built usually with glass or plastic with high-strength. The aquariums that are cuboids are called tanks or fish tanks and the vessels which are shaped like bowls are called fish bowls.
Size of the aquariums varies from a small fish bowl to the massive public aquariums. An Aquarium includes several components that are essential for maintaining the quality of the water along with the environment that is ideal for the dwellers of the Aquarium. Categorized on the basis of the organisms that live in the aquariums or by the nature of environment that is imitated, the Aquaria can be of different types also. Men are known to have kept fishes since several thousands of years.| The fish that was first brought to the interiors was known to be the sea barbell that was contained in small tanks and kept under the beds of the guests. After the glass panes were introduced around 50 A.D, one of the four walls of the marble tank was substituted by the Romans with a glass wall for enjoying a better view. Hongwu, the Chinese Emperor founded a porcelain company in 1369 for producing big porcelain tubs for keeping goldfish. After the Wardian case was invented in 1836, Ward started using his tanks to keep toy fishes and aquatic plants in the year 1841. A saltwater aquarium was known to be owned by Felix Dujardin whereas Anna Thynne, in 1846, was accredited as the creator of the first marine aquarium of London that was maintained perfectly by keeping all the necessary conditions that are required for balancing the environment.
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Experimentation was carried on by Robert Warington during that same time period with a 13-gallon vessel that held goldfish, snails and eelgrass, this Aquarium being known to be the first proper one. Keeping an Aquarium that contained fishes eventually became a common hobby and after the display of the decorative aquariums in 1851 at the Great Exhibition in the United Kingdom was held, the craze for aquariums grew like anything. London Zoo became the first to feature a big public Aquarium which later became popular as “Fish House”. The term “aquarium” was in fact, used by Philip Henry Gosse, who chose to use this word in “The Aquarium: An Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea”, the book which he published in the year in 1854.
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