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A box of water where fish stare back at your bad decisions.
means A tank or building where aquatic animals and plants are kept alive and on display.
from Coined in 1850s from Latin aqua (water) plus the place-suffix -arium, on the model of vivarium; popularized when Victorians went wild for glass tanks.
Naming creditNaturalist Philip Henry Gosse stuck the word in 1854.
Pressure problemDeep tanks need glass feet thick to resist water.
Smart inhabitantOctopuses escape tanks and recognize individual humans.