The functions and advantages of an aquarium

Some varied functions are summarized below:

• It serves as interior decoration for the indoor environment. This adds to the beauty of the environment.

• Once illuminated it becomes a focal point for the family or visitors. Either, home, office, store or hospital the aquarium will always attract the attention of visitors.

• It helps in the expression of one's individuality and display of imagination because self-arrangement of the tank by the aquarist gives opportunity for personal artistic expression.

• Just watching the graceful movement and unlimited play of the fish is a relaxing nerve tonic.

• Caring for these charges is a distraction which works wonders for the tired executive. "Encourage people to gather around aquariums to de-stress" says Marlene Brown, founder of Techno Touch Marketing and Marmel consulting in clermmills, new York.

• On a minimal basis, they are clean, odorless, and comparatively care-free.

• From an economic point of view - the aquarium has universal adaptability - It may involve only a simple bowl of in expensive fish to an entire room of tanks filled with exotic species.

• Educationally, the aquarium provides a living experience od nature - a prototype of the world we live in.

• A medium to see the gaseous cycle of plant and animal life on earth.

• We see how animal waste become plant food to create more food for animal life.