| Studies have shown that people who own a tropical | | | | seen in hospital waiting rooms and especially in the |
| fish tank are calmer and suffer from less ill health | | | | child's hospital wards to help aid their recovery. |
| than those who don't. Dogs and cats are also known | | | | And For Adults Too! |
| to have therapeutic benefits. Stroking a dog or cat | | | | While adults may control themselves near a fish store |
| has been proven to provide a calming effect on the | | | | more than a kid would, at the city aquarium or zoo, |
| brain. But the simple observation that watching fish | | | | they are just as entranced as the children. Everyone |
| makes people calmer and healthier is also backed up | | | | feels wonder watching the biggest shark or the |
| by studies. A freshwater or a tropical fish tank brings | | | | humblest goldfish paddling through a tropical fish tank. |
| an increase in health and wellness and gazing at these | | | | They are known to reduce blood pressure and help |
| kinds of aquariums is peaceful and relaxing. | | | | people who are going through stressful situations. It |
| Therapy For Your Kids | | | | is the fish that are the relaxing part. Tests have been |
| If you have children, you will know how much of a | | | | carried out on subjects who just watch a colorful |
| handful they can be but have you noticed the | | | | bubbling tank but without any fish and they did not |
| difference in how they behave when you take them | | | | have as promising results as those who watched a |
| to an aquarium center? Or even to a house or office | | | | tropical fish tank which actually contained fish. |
| where there is a tropical fish tank? They become | | | | Scientists in Japan are studying the possibility that |
| transfixed upon the fish. It's like a magnet pulls them | | | | watching delicate jellyfish in a tropical fish tank may |
| in. I remember being a child and watching some pink | | | | be even more therapeutic. |
| coral in a tropical fish tank at a store, just hypnotized | | | | Some people have told how gazing at a tropical fish |
| by its motion. | | | | tank helped a loved one deal with disease. Another |
| Watching A tropical fish tank is so calming studies | | | | great place to have a tropical fish tank is in the dining |
| have shown that children with adhd show a marked | | | | room, as studies show you are more able to relax |
| improvement almost immediately. Aquariums in the | | | | and focus on completing a whole meal in the |
| classroom are known not only to reduce anxiety | | | | presence of an aquarium. This may be why several |
| levels in students but also to be a good tool to teach | | | | top restaurants have had large tropical fish tanks |
| the kids the responsibilities of caring for a pet and | | | | installed. |
| some chemistry basics. Tropical fish tanks are also | | | | |