Marathon County Public Library

The children's department at MCPL Wausau features a 650-gallon saltwater aquarium with a living coral reef and more than 30 species of tropical fish and other marine life. 

The tank was built by Acrylic Tank Manufacturing of Las Vegas and was funded by a donation from the estate of Phyllis Donner, a Wausau resident.

Inhabitants of the aquarium are as follows (as of 2018):

Fish

• Sea Goldie
• Mimic Elibi Tang
• Blue Tang
• Powder Brown Tang
• Clownfish
• Blue-Green Chromis
• Blue Spot Goby
• Coral Beauty
• Golden Rabbitfish
• Emperor Angelfish
• Copperband Butterfly
• Blue Gudgeon
• Bicolor Angelfish
• Firefish
• Yellow Lined Rabbitfish
• Red Head Salon Fairy Wrasse
• Royal Granma
• Bluespine Unicorn
• Lemon Peel Angel
• Yellow Tang
• White Blenny
• Yellow Foxface Rabbitfish
• Sailfin Tang
• Flame Angelfish
• Powder Blue Tang
• Green Mandarin
• Yellowhead Jawfish
• Lemon Chromis
• Doubleband Surgeonfish
• Lubbock’s Wrasse
• Azura Damsel
• Pink Skunk Clownfish
• Purple Tang
• Flame Hawkfish
• Purple Firefish
• Square Back Anthias

Invertebrates

• Rose Sea Anemone
• Banded Coral Shrimp
• Blood Red Fire Shrimp
• Nassarius Snails
• Corinth Snails
• Peppermint Shrimp
• Blue Hermit Crab
• Sand-Sifting Sea Star
• Chocolate Chip Starfish
• Blue-Legged Hermit Crab
• White-Legged Hermit Crab
• Black Urchin
• Pencil Urchin
• Red-Legged Hermit Crab
• Pin Cushion Urchin
• Scarlet Reef Hermit Crab
• Scarlet Skunk Cleaner Shrimp

Coral

• Daisy Button Polyps
• Frilly Mushrooms
• Mushroom Polyps
• Finger Coral
• Mushroom Coral
• Accordia
• Lettuce Coral
• Montapora
• Brain Coral
   

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