Adopt-A-Fish of the Day is the Collare Butterflyfish! If you are interested in adopting today's fish as a donation to the East Idaho Aquarium please contact eastidahoaquarium@yahoo.com for more details.
The Red-tailed Butterflyfish or Collare Butterflyfish (Chaetodon collare), also known as the Pakistani Butterflyfish, is a species of butterflyfish (family Chaetodontidae). It inhabits reefs of the Indo-west Pacific region: from the Persian Gulf and Maldives to Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia. It grows to 7 inches in length The Red-tailed Butterflyfish is brown to black, with lighter scales giving it a spotted appearance. It has a prominent, vertical white streak behind the eyes, a dark stripe over the eyes, and another, smaller white stripe in front of the eyes. The base of the tail is bright red, followed by a black stripe. The tip of the tail is diffuse white. In the wild, its diet consists of coral polyps. In captivity, it is a carnivore, taking fish meat and shrimp.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redtail_
Adopt-A-Fish of the Day is the Piranha! If you are interested in adopting today's fish as a donation to the East Idaho Aquarium please contact eastidahoaquarium@yahoo.com for more details.
Piranhas are indigenous to the Amazon basin, in the Orinoco, in rivers of the Guianas, in the Paraguay-Paraná, and the São Francisco River systems. Piranhas normally grow to 5.5 to 10.25 inches. All piranhas have a single row of sharp teeth in both jaws; the teeth are tightly packed and interlocking (via small cusps) and are used for rapid puncture and shearing. Individual teeth are typically broadly triangular, pointed and blade-like (flat in profile). There is minor variation in the number of cusps; in most species, the teeth are tricuspid with a larger middle cusp which makes the individual teeth appear markedly triangular. The exception is Pygopristis, which has pentacuspid teeth and a middle cusp usually only slightly larger than the other cusps. Piranha have a reputation as ferocious predators that hunt their prey in schools. Recent research, however, which "started off with the premise that they school as a means of cooperative hunting", discovered that they are timid fish that schooled for protection from their own predators, such as cormorants, caimans, and dolphins. Piranhas are "basically like regular fish with large teeth.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha
This last weekend we had two fundraisers. On Friday we were at both the Ammon and Idaho Falls Walmarts, where we gave away delicious goodies and excepted donations to help get our Aquarium started. We also had a fundraiser on Saturday at just the Idaho Falls Walmart where we gave away more yummyness and also had the Snake River Mermaids there helping us. Between the two days we got enough money to start building one of our tanks! YAY! We are so excited!
This new tank will be housing our South American Cichlids residents. We will be posting progress photos of the tank build soon. Please join us in thanking Scott at My Captive Seas Custom Aquariums on Facebook for donating his labor, time and knowledge for this tank build. A big Thank You as well, to all of the volunteers for your services with the fund raising events and your dedicated time for this cause!
Sending out a huge Thank You to you, our followers, and our Local Community! With our latest fund raising efforts we are able to build our first tank.
Stay tuned for more updates on fundraisers, tanks being built and our progress on getting you this wonderful addition to the Eastern Idaho area.
Hello! Welcome to the East Idaho Aquarium's new blog! We will be posting new information, ways you can help, fundraisers, and our progress on this blog. We will also post tanks as they are built and fish we want to have. Come along with us on this journey to build an underwater world in Eastern Idaho!
