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Taiwan man invents stroller for fish to ‘explore other worlds’
In Taiwan's Taichung City, Jerry Huang can be seen pushing his latest invention: a goldfish bowl on wheels.
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Fish walk: Jerry Huang, maker and fish enthusiast, poses on May 19 with the fish tank trolley he desisgned and built for photographs at a park in Taichung, central Taiwan. (AFP/Sam Yeh)
Jerry Huang's aquatic pets rarely feel like two lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, because they get to go for regular strolls.
In Taiwan's Taichung City, Huang can be seen pushing his latest invention: a goldfish bowl on wheels.
"In the past, people walked their dogs and cats, now they take their parrots for walks, also snakes, lizards," Huang, 31, told AFP.
"Is there a chance for underwater creatures to explore the land above water?" he asked himself.
Huang, an avid aerial drone photographer who makes a living making content for his YouTube channel, soon came up with a solution. After spending weeks in his workshop tinkering with the design, the goldfish stroller actually came together in just a few days, cobbled together from spare parts he had lying around.
The space-age-looking contraption, which cost US$300-400, consists of a large, water-filled acrylic cylinder for the fish, combined with a battery-powered filtration and oxygen system placed on a specially built trolley.
"I [did] a lot of research before I started making this fish tank. It's not a spur of the moment thing. You need to understand fish," said Huang, who decided that goldfish, which were hardy and not especially frightened of humans, were the best test subjects.
Huang is fairly confident his goldfish enjoy their adventures.
"We all have this urge to explore other, uninhabitable exotic worlds, that's why we send spaceships to the universe," he beamed. "If I were a goldfish, I would definitely be super thrilled if someone invented a thing for me to go explore other worlds."
