Extreme Makeover for Our Library Loving Fish!

Spring is here and with spring comes thoughts of spring cleaning and decorating. Our fish are no exception! You'll be noticing some changes to our fish tank starting this week. Perhaps they got some ideas from Pinterest (maybe they took the class at the library?) or talked to some of their fish friends, but their digs are getting an upgrade!

Please excuse our "hard hat area" and rest assured that the fish are in good hands and will be happily overlooking the remodel. We are expecting to unveil their new habitat, including the plan to "go natural" by having living coral put into the aquarium on Friday, May 24th.

If you haven't been here lately, now's a great time to stop by with the kids and show them the new design. The picture to the left shows the fish you can see in our tank.

New Fish!

Introducing our newest additions to our salt walter fish tank: the Koran Angel and Foxface Butterfly fish!

Come visit us and see these new fish and their other marine animal friends in our beautiful tank.

If you are interested in having a pet fish, read about caring for them in these books:Tropical Fish, Me and My Pet Fish and Fish.

Inspired by the beauty of our fish? Try you hand at drawing them and other sea creatures using the tips from Quick Draw: Under the Sea.

Discover something FISHY at the library!

What kind of fish only swims at night?

A starfish! (read more in Animal Jokes by Pam Rosenberg)

You can see a real live clownfish at your library! Youth Services is proud to be home of the marine animals living in our salt water tank. Come by to see the chocolate chip starfish move slowly across the shell floor. Observe the Astrea snails grazing around the tank as part of the clean-up crew. Try to find the camouflaged Longnose Hawkfish. Be captured by the striking regal beauty of the Blue Tang (quite possibly known to your children as 'Dory' from the movie Finding Nemo) and watch the gentle nature of the Banggai Cardinalfish.

See if you can find them all:
Percula Clownfish, Banggai Cardinalfish, Chocolate Chip starfish, Longnose Hawkfish, Astrea Snails, Turbo Snails, Margarita Snails, Blue Tang, and Yellowtail Damsels.

After seeing these amazing animals, head to the book shelves for these books or these books and discover all things fishy!