A rare fish washed up on a local beach has found a new home in Tenby's aquarium.

On Monday, a rare boar fish was discovered washed up alive on the beach in Manorbier by a local resident.

The boar fish, otherwise known as Zulu fish, are usually found in water more than 300ft deep, 150 miles off the shore of Cornwall, and characteristically are orangey red in colour, have large eyes and eat small crustaceans, writes Bethan Russell, a pupil of Sir Thomas Picton School, who recently spent some time on work experience at the Observer offices.

Fortunately, the fish was found by local villager Lydia Beyba-Morris, a woman who keeps fish herself, and so after several failed attempts to put it back into the sea, she took it home in a plastic bag full of water and kept it in her fish tank overnight.

The following day, Lydia brought the boar fish into the Silent World Aquarium located at Slippery Back, on Tenby's Narberth Road.

The owners of the aquarium, Ginny and Russ, said: "The fish would probably just have been washed up again and died if it had been left in shallow water, it was quite weak and is used to living much further out to sea."

Now the rarely seen fish is settling down in its new home in a tank where it has made friends with grey mullets, shrimps and hermit crabs.

"One was discovered washed up on Saundersfoot beach a while ago unfortunately dead, so we're delighted that this one has been saved and we're able to make a home for it at the aquarium," added Russ.