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Animals in the City

The Paris Aquarium is dedicated to showcasing the world's different marine ecosystems. But it also introduces visitors to domestic species. The latter are very much a part of our everyday lives, and populate our cities.

Petting pool:
The petting pool lets you touch koi carp and learn more about their domestication.

Rakuen:
The Paris Aquarium also exhibits goldfish. In fact, one of our missions is to take in goldfish from private owners when they can no longer care for them properly.

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There are 5 species of domestic fish: koi carp, goldfish, fighting fish, guppy and danio.

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A goldfish can live for about 15 years

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The top-selling fish is a koi carp at 1,600,000 euros "