Without its usual crowd of spectators, Kaikyokan’s sunfish essentially started to fall into a deep-sea depression.

The Shimonoseki City Aquarium in Japan's Yamaguchi Prefecture needed to undergo renovations, and temporarily closed to the public in December, 2024. Staff said the aquarium's sunfish lost his appetite ...

A sunfish at a municipal aquarium undergoing renovation in this west Japan city became unwell, but recovered after its tank ...

A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in Japan lost its appetite, began banging into the side of the fishtank and appeared unwell ...

How do you perk up a lonely fish? This may sound like the start of a particularly silly joke, but it was a very real ...

SHIMONOSEKI: A lonely ocean sunfish in a Japanese aquarium, which seemed to be missing its human visitors and caretakers ...

The Kaikyokan Aquarium in Shimonoseki, Japan, which is undergoing renovations, revealed in a post on X that its staff had to think out of the box to help one of its sunfish struggling with the change.

Staff members believe the sunfish stopped eating when the aquarium was temporarily closed because it was lonely.

An aquarium in Japan has come up with a unique and out-of-the-box idea to cheer up its lonely resident sunfish after the ...

Staff had noticed that the sunfish was showing signs of distress after the aquarium was closed for refurbishment ...

"When an aquarium in Japan closed to the public for restorations, the aquarium's beloved sunfish grew lonely without visitors ...

The Japanese aquarium posted a photo on its official X (formerly Twitter) account on 3 January, showing the sunfish named ...