Mystic Aquarium
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Mystic Aquarium
The Mystic Aquarium has already shipped 120 fish to New Orleans, including 54 chocolate cichlids, 24 green severums and 36 blue acará, a pleco, a freshwater stingray and 4 pacus, a vegetarian relative of the piranha. Sending animals to help replenish the ailing aquarium was one way for Mystic Aquarium employees to pay back their colleagues in New Orleans for their help four years ago when Mystic was opening a new exhibit on animals that live in the swamps of the southeastern United States. Later this year Mystic Aquarium may ship a turtle, another pacu and a 10-pound lobster, depending on when their exhibits will be ready in New Orleans.