To the surprise of many of us, Tropical Aquarium keeping is the second largest hobbies in the world next to photography. Archaeological evidence of fish-keeping dates back to the Sumerians (2500 BC) and the Babylonians (500 BC).

Ancient Egyptian Arts displays the captivity of depictions of sacred fish of Oxyrhynchus, in the rectangular temple pools. Ancient Sumerians kept wild caught fish in ponds. Selective breeding of Carp into today`s popular and completely domesticated koi and goldfish began over 2,000 years ago in Japan and China, respectively.