The Kick of an Electric Eel
After a somewhat restless youth, CHRISTOPHER W. COATES landed a job in the Old New York Aquarium at Battery Park, was put in charge of the fresh-water tropical fish, and for the first time felt the jolt of the electric eel. Today, as Curator-Aquarist of the New York Aquarium, he is intimately involved in the behavior offish. In the planning of the New York Aquarium, he is confronted with the problem of how to build tanks holding several million gallons of forty different kinds of water and how to move thousands of gallons a minute without letting any metal touch the fish.