Constanța Aquarium, Public aquarium on the Black Sea coast in Constanța, Romania.
Constanța Aquarium is a public facility on the Black Sea coast featuring 57 tanks throughout its exhibition space. It displays over 100 species of fish and marine creatures from the Black Sea, Mediterranean, and tropical regions.
The building originally served as a restaurant for the adjacent Constanța Casino before transforming into Romania's first public aquarium in 1958. This conversion marked a turning point in how the waterfront location was used locally.
The aquarium is named after marine biologist Ioan Borcea, who proposed a Constanța aquarium in 1938 at the Romanian Naval League, together with admiral Ioan Bălănescu. Its three sections are marine, native freshwater and exotic species, and the tanks are arranged as far as possible by taxonomy.
The aquarium sits on the seafront below Bulevardul Regina Elisabeta, in the peninsula opposite the Constanța Casino. The exhibition area is organised around a larger central basin, with the 57 tanks and technical spaces arranged around it. Allow time to walk the three sections: marine, native freshwater and exotic species.
The central tank holds the aquarium's largest sturgeon collection, noted for specimens that have lived 18 to 20 years in captivity. Alongside them are ecologically useful but little-known species such as the seahorse, pipefish, sea scorpion and sea dragon.
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