[1] The aquarium is accredited as a Museum-equivalent facilities by the Museum Act from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

The name was chosen because it is easy to remember and familiar, even though "aqua" and "totto" are infant words meaning "water" and "fish," respectively.

In 2018, the park was certified as a "Rare Species Conservation Zoo and Botanical Garden" by the Minister of the Environment for the first time in Japan (No.

The aquarium has been focusing its research efforts on the Mekong giant catfish, and based on 13 years of observation records, the aquarium has found that the Mekong giant catfish has the physiological ability to endure long periods of fasting, which can last up to one year, and that it maintains a periodic cycle that matches the local dry and rainy seasons.

[9] Researchers, university students, and aquarium staff have conducted distribution surveys as part of joint research, and in the past have held hands-on learning programs, held a symposium on the conservation of Pseudorasbora pugnax, which is considered a rare species in Gifu Prefecture, and displayed Onychodactylus pyrrhonotus, which was newly described as a species in February 2022.