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WHOLESALE 425
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Arch
Pa.
Philadelphia,
Street,
Manufacturer
WOLF
Aquariums
will
also
Floral Terra Cotta, etc.
Send
all
for
develop
fine fins
makes your
and robust;
aquarium requisites
PA.
and
for
Daphnia.
is
color;
healthv
the best substitute
This food
New York
used by the
Catalog and Trade Prices
and
fish
will act as a laxa-
tive
Fish Food
Fish Globes and
PHILADELPHIA,
ST.
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Aquarium Ornaments Goldfish
RETAIL
is
and
Philadelphia Aquaria; also by
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and
Live-Bearmg
Aquaria
many
Ask your dealer
flSHES
HARRY
FOR SALE Large Variety of Water Plants
for
P.
it
or send to
PETERS
Warnock Street PHILADELPHIA, PA.
1210 North
HERMANN RABENAU 1143-1153
breeders in Philadelphia
LIBERTY AVE., BROOKLYN
IMPORTER AND BREEDER
Grant Avenue Station, end of City Line Elevated
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Largest Greenhouses in the World Devoted to the Breeding of Fancy, Chinese and Japanese Goldfish and
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of
Aquarium
Plants
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FISHES
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WATER
LILIES
Submerged and Semi-Submerged Plants FOR PONDS ON ESTATES
Manufacturer of the Celebrated Rustless corner pieces.
Marbleized
slate
"SUPERIOR" AQUARIUMS Made
bottoms.
in
galvanized sheet iron, wrought iron
and brass nickel plated.
Manufacturer of the Made from
F"or fish only.
aquarium pure and sweet and does not injure the plants
Once
triel,
We maim
the
"AMERJAP" FISH FOOD
Celebrated
the purest of materials.
in
Keeps your
good condition, keeps your Eaten hy the fish with avidity.
fish in
the aquarium
always used.
carry the finest line of aquarium ornaments in the country. fish,
No
rough, sharp edges to injure and
but every ornament glazed with a smooth and beautiful finish, and in harmonious colors,
creating an artistic effect in the aquarium.
Globes, Nets, Pebbles, Sand, Foods, Etc. Everything Pertaining to the Aquarium and Pond Send
for Price Lists
fHOH^I^I^iOt't'
Breeding Chanchito Frank L. Tappan Minneapolis, Minnesota
Efirly last S))nng
was
I
fortunate- in
ol)taining a pair of little fellows bartly
two and one-half inches long, that
I
breed.
placed
I
lon aquarium.
aquarium
them
into a 30-gal-
one end of the
^Vt
placed a small terra cotta
I
with a large
castle,
The
base.
so small
feared they were too young to
opening
the
at
did not seem to agree
(ish
very well, and after several domestic
apparently
disputes
while the female was
found
the shade
in
One day
aquarium.
the
had
fish
castle,
usually to be
of
group of
a
at the further
sagittaria
the
sej)arated,
male taking possession of the
end of the
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noticed that
I
apparintly
made
up
After Drawing by Schlawjinski
and were busy swimming thru and around tlie castle, inspecting every part of
Then began
it.
the labor of removing the
sand from the inside of the castle which took several days, the
fish
had a peculiar
Early on the morning of the 1
found one of the old
first
day and
thought was that the ])arent had
destroyed
motion not unlike that of a hen dusting
fish
Finally the last of the sand which
fifth
the castle as
usual, but not a trace of eggs or young,
my
method of throwing the sand out with tlieir fins and tails, with a sort of quivering herself.
fish in
them.
My
attention
was
at-
tracted by the queer actions of one of the -it
further end of the a(|iiarium,
the
where the day before
I
had noticed him ex-
they were unable to remove in this manner
cavating a dee]) hole at the base of one of
mouths and carried
the water plants, the fish was turning side-
was taken up
in tlieir
and deposited
to a distance
dis-
one eye
s])awnd. the eggs,
manner.
Early one morning (July 13th), coverd
tliat
glistening
they had
like
little
ways and
in a licaj).
white
I
were
pearls,
stuck or glued on the inside edge of the
I'rom
castle.
now on both
fish
were assid-
uous in their care and attention to the eggs
and voung.
One- of the fish
was constantly
hovering over the eggs fanning
lliein
with
and causing a current of water to How over them, when one fish be-
his ])ectoral
came
fins
tiri'd tile
U})on
other instantly took
first ])lacing
its ])lac(.'.
the fish in the acjua-
rium, the water was ke])t at a dejjth of eight inches, after the fish had spawned,
the
depth of w%atcr was
inches,
and kept at
tliat
reduced
depth.
to
six
I
j)eering into the holi- with first
thi'ii
with the other,
\\'itli
in
a comical
the aid of a reading glass
discoverd a black mass ot
liltle
wriggling
bottom of the hole. 'I'he liltle C'hanchitos kepi up a eoiistaiil wriggling fishes in the
motion but were unable
to
swim, and seemd
and entirely de])cndeiit upon the parent fish for care and protection.
to be helpless
While one of the ))art'nt fish was constanlly guarding the little tellows the other fish was busily engaged in excavating d<'cp holes in the sand in difitreut parts of
tlu-
and once or twice a day the little fishes were tranferred to a new location, the old fish carrying several ol" them at a time in their mouths like cats carrying
acjiiarium,
their kittens.
On
the
A Hunt
morning of the ninth day the
Chanchitos were suffieiently developd to leave the sand holes and I found the parent fishes surrounded by a black ball of little fishes which gave them the appearlittle
ance of being in the midst of a swarm of If any of the little fishes strayd too bees. far
away from
the others, one of the old fish
would gently gather up the little one in its mouth and return it to its fellows. The parent fishes seemd very proud of their family, and it was amusing to see the comical way in wliich the now and then would ])eek
old fish every into the nest.
were able to swim about, the old fish became very jealous of their little family, and would fight like tigers if any one disturbd them, in fact I had to caution visitors not to tease them or approach too close to the aquarium, as After the
Clianchitos
little
several times the fish struck the glass sides
of the
aquarium with
force to
sufficient
stun themselves.
The
little fish
TiiAc V
On when
The
artificial
scraped meat, of which
fresh
little
By
actual count, there
Chanchitos and
I
succeeded
little
Chanchitos are kept with the little
fellows are the bosses
happen young ones appear and get the food out of the mouths of the old ones if they can reach it and the old ones seem to take it good naturedly. During the breeding season tlie old fish assumd the most intense colors, the eye is bright red, the body of tlie fish bright olive green, inclining to bronze, the tail and fins of the aquarium.
If the parents
to get fed first, the
jet black, as are also the seven cross bars
on the body, which give the pearance of a zebra.
found Soutli
in tlie
waters of
fish
the ap-
The Chanchito is the La Plata basin,
America, and attains a length of
nine or ten inches, fish,
it
is
a hardy, healthy
of striking appearance
and
interest-
ing habits and easy to keep in the aqua-
rium
October days
of Winter adds zest to one's enjoyment of the
lingering
warmtli
of
members of the
zealous
Summer, four
C. F. F. C. hied
themselves out of Chicago into the haunts of wary,
little
darters which had been dis-
covered in a tiny stream some thirty miles
away.
After a pleasant hour's ride thru of
fields
and across
cornstalks
tattered
we dropt
stubble and pasturelands
off the
train to find ourselves in a little village,
perched on the side of a base meandered, in
hill,
along whose
serpentine course, a
brook of clear, cold water, now babling over pebbly shallows and again purrino-
deep holes
in
between banks of
nestld
Donning our hip boots and toting our we made a bee-line for a
nets and pails
broad shallows Adsible a hundred yards
away
just below an old red bridge.
Start-
ing in on the lower end of the shallows two of us carried the
280 of them.
big ones and the
tliose delightful
requird no food until nine
they are very fond.
in raising
one of
the mere suggestion of the approach
green sod.
food until old enuf to eat the
were 285
H. Holmes
Chicago
days' old, then they were given the live
food and
for Darters
minnow
cent line across and
dragging
seine in a cres-
up the stream, and,
carefully over the stones,
it
made a quick sweep up
we
one shore, keep-
to
ing the down-stream end of the net snug against the shore while the other end of the net the
made
l)oint farther
be
to
a circular path out across
stream and back to the shore at a too
up stream.
clumsy,
glimpses of "the
for
At first we provd we merely got
fish tliat
got away," but,
gaining experience we soon began to find the
net
sparkling with
leaping,
flashing
Most of the hauls consisted of "Johnny" darters, but Floyd's practist eyes soon detected more rare and j)rizd specimens and so Fantail and Rainbow fishes.
darters hibited
were soon being exultingly exby Carl in his pocket globe whicli
he had so thoughtfully brought along.
Again and again we dragged
tliat little
.
shallows and eacli time some prize would call forth a shout of
Fantail
we
his feet
yell, a
playd him false
floundering fisher-
(^Boleosoma
nigrum^,
man and two masses of flojjping Wildly we scrambled to the rescue,
{Ethcostoma
Jlabe/lare) ,
Rainl)ow
Carl, but of those precious darters, rapidly
Least
bank to True to fishermen's luck we lost the two rarest speciuuiis, the black-sided and green-sided darters, and no one knows how many extra
Soldier
In
all
tallied six species
{Etheostojua
(Microperca
roe rule urn)
These strange little cousins of the perch, changed in their mode of life and in
shelter of the rocks in the
After repairing the damage as best we
few inches of
rushing water and do not desert
for the
it
seemingly safer waters of the nearby deep
the slijjpery
rainbows.
fine
their adaptations for that life, stick to the
fishes.
not of
beckoning water below.
the
and Cireen-sided (Di-
(isj)ro)
down
somersaulting
Black-sided
punctulata) ,
(lladroplents
,
plcsion blamioides)
so
nniddy bank,
and there was a
Johnny
excited men.
of darters:
or
])('ry,
joy from the boyishly
could,
we
in the
creek about half a mile
cut across the fields to a jioint
away where
aquariums we readily under-
Floyd assured us Red-bellied Dace (C/irosomus-erythrogastei-) were waiting to try our mettle. This haunt was a broad and
stand their abliorence of the deep water,
deep part of the creek just above a narrow,
among
deep channel thru which the water rushed
and under rocks and even for diving under Hand that they are practically unfited for
The bottom of the was sandy, tho the banks on the deeper side were miry nmd. These grace-
After watching these darters
pools.
Winter
in the
for tliey are so fited for scrambling
swimming and seem very awkward
all
in try-
thru a mill-race.
as
pool
aristocratic denizens of the pools of
ing to get to the top of the aquarium.
ful,
Having collected as many darters as the members .could properly care for, and liaving thrown back into the stream all but
Illinois
the choicest specimens,
we
in a
of
pasture abov the bridge.
in
expedition but
we
a great help to the
feard
it
Fortunately
life.
three-foot-deep pools
stone
ano7)ialuÂťi)
minnows siick( rs
{
the
rest
rollers
Phcnacobius
are
cap?ii-
{Catiiposloinfi
sucker-mouthd
The
Jiiirahi/ix).
for they soon died, but
life still
tanks.
The most
part of
th{>
to
in
trip
leap across a
thriving
in
the
school
exciting episode of this
was little
of fishes in his hands.
tlie
attem))t of Carl
creek with two
])ails
Landing on
slij)-
a
our
away from
ing in stones to scare the fishes that avenue of escape,
the
we were
able to cap-
an hour's seining, only a half
ture, after
dozen of the wary of the
beasts
league with the
little
Even
beauties.
little
fields
seemd
to
be in
dace, for just as
make our
got ready to
hauls, a
we
band of
horses in the adjoining pasture dasht thru
stream
the
with
us
the h)
a
our
scaring
uHid
heroic
head
few
fishes
and
efforts
lh( ni oft",
feet away from us, away and s])attering
water. of
noyance.
And
was
for
I
of
Floyd
much
to
our an-
dace
not at all sure of our
the lifting of the pail
cover
a signal for all sorts of acrobatic feats
that resulted in
out
s))ite
and
after capturing the
we found we were prizes,
In
Carl
these horses persisted in
(lashing thru the stream,
did not seem to adapt themselves
aquarium
to
say he
iCatoslouins
some
and
,
at the
we can
we succeeded
some hog suckers
gric(in.s-),
would be
In the muddy,
did not even take cold.
turing
virility
shirt
He was
four hours.
cost of a
his
and "gym" i)ants and that icy cold water for three or
by stripping to
wading
Being shy
John demonstrated
boots.
in spite of
for,
having two of our party upstream throw-
set out for the
deeper and quieter stretches of the stream
streams provd almost more than a
match for four men,
of the
])ail
some of them lea})ing clear and back to freedom in
he stream. (CoNCi.UDEn ON Pace 7)
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all
For want of
name.
in
knowledge
Brooklyn,
of
Societies
of his colleags.
::
There was a dearth of information and Vol.
APRIL, 1912
I
No.
I
no source
Our Aim The aim
of
tliis
interest
First, to
magazine
is
twofold.
wider public
tlie
few
last
gained greatly it
years in
an
in
Within
im]>ortant subject of nature study. the
aquarium
the
which
to
it
public a])preciation,
is
tlio
the great possibilities
one of nature's
less
on account of
entitld
offers of
it
known
opening
To
fields.
the
scientific student, the fish breeder, the ad-
mirer of beauty, or the simple lover of nature,
the
becomes an object
afjuarinn)
of value.
This larger
and
foremost,
we
scientific
view will be kejit
i)oint of
we
while
members of the
the
cieties
them
in
to
bring before
several acjuariuin so-
matters which
interest to
is
may
be of general
mutual help the art of aquarium
as well as of
the furthering of
keeping.
In other words, to combine the
scientific
and the
monious whole.
who
call
into
therefor
a is
harto all
are interested in the life of the water
and of
We
practical
Our
its
co\ er
more immediate surroundings. the domains of river, lake and
marsh as well as of the
seaside.
in
way
a
known.
number
of people gradu-
workt out success for themselves, tho
complete ignorance of the things others
were doing along the same path.
Early chance
in 1893, five
become
persons
existence,
who had by founded
acquainted,
small society which, tho
now no
a
longer in
was the mother of the present Society, which originally em-
New York
braced a membership from
York boroughs
as well as
the five
New
from the adja-
New Jersey. The New York Aquarium Society is thus the oldest in the field and has had the usual vicissitudes
cent part of
of all pioneer organizations.
The Philadelphia Society, numerically was formd independently of
being
purjiose
also intend to be ])o))ular.
Tlie second ])ur])o.se
ally
has
does not yet hold the ])rominent posi-
tion
availalile
In this
the strongest,
New to
York, fourteen years ago and has up
the i)resent time devoted
mainly
its
energies
to goldfish culture.
The Brooklyn Aquarium Society was in 1<)11, chiefly from the membershiji of the New York Society residing on Long Island. It too is successful and formd early
had cstablisht its
is
a small
monthly bulletin
own interests. The Chicago Fish Fanciers Club M
young and thriving
intcrc stcd
in ;u|uatie life.
in
also
grouj) of people
The Household Aquarium
If certain ettorts turn out successfully
we
will
the very near future greet a
in
Sam'i.
society in Boston as well.
The New York, Brooklyn and Chicago more general
societies are devoted to
as native fishes, terraria, foreign (mainly
aquarium
is
keejMng of
all
The
tropical) fishes, as well as the breeding of
Keenly realizing tion,
was
it
M. D.
and niainlenauee of an
important
factor
the
in
fisht;s.
ordinary
an
for
suited
best
one containing from thirty to
is
and
sixty gallons, larger ones are unwieldy
benefits of associa-
tlit'
dangerous on account of weight, smaller
touch with the
felt that closer
I'a.
an
size
dwelling
rare or specially interesting fishes.
3d,
])roper care
i'ltc
fields
McClahy, I'hiiadciphia,
The
work of others was needed and mutual help
ones require cleaning too frefiuently.
could not be better obtaind, than bv ere-
franu work should be of metal brass makes
ating an organ of inttrconununication.
an effective adormnent for a sitting-room,
;
This, not only would assist the several societies but
many
tou.di
would also serve
the brass
distant but nevertheless inter-
csted persons not connected with any soci-
The Brooklyn
ety.
very wisely
Society
and generously took
cijiles
instruct
the beginner
the ])rin-
in
of aquarium maintenance
air surface is small.
one of
is
we wish
past the beginner's stage,
it is
is,
do better
fish
shallow water in aquariums.
to en-
should
of slate and the sides of heavy
])e
servation as well as to ])resent to them ever
cement comes
We
of interest.
fields
we want other ries
to assist
citiis,
in
tlu-
forming
teachers
who
for thtir classes. Init
he there,
the
A
to
The
libra-
often
1
'2
part of white lead.
best general soil
freedom
most
jiig
We
Most plants
^,,j]^
t],at
helped.
small
love.
To
be successful
suijport of
cles
and
a
who
laria,
needs the active
in
l„.c„ine
t|,„j^,.
hidden
llie
])leas-
do
iu)t
in
-pi,,. i,,,^^
may
but
it
be i)lanted
in
sunk below the
acjuarium i)lants are
Sagil-
and good oxygeiigrows too rapidly and soon
Cohoviha, .
the soil and de-
will root well in this
pots of earth, and
Poltiinogctoii
ator.
Liidifigia
J'alisiiariti,
Anaclions
is
a
covers the surface, thereby occluding the top light which
more ambitious un-
we need your help both
,,„i
j,_.„„]
labor of
interest lies in the small
aquarium or
dertakings
it
is
^^.j]]
many.
Whether your fireside
It
lower layer of
a))))earance. so that particles of food
(.ompose.
salaries or ))rofits are j^aid those
a
and get nutrition,
traxcl
lo
want our readers to tell us of their cxiieriences and of their troubles, in other words wc want to help and also want to be
No
is
sand above makes a more even and
limited.
conduct this magazine.
1
])arts of glazier's jjutty.
and an up))er layer of coarse sand, Tlie pebbles allow the roots of plants more
tho the generous wish is
One
pebl)les
desire to keej) atjuaria
knowledge
good cement fornuda may be made of
part of litharge,
There are
no
contact with the water,
in
the following:
societies in
and we want to reach the
and especially the schools.
many
want
societies,
in
The base
plate glass, so joined that practically
help the individual as well as
it
high and
courage in careful study and accurate ob-
widening
so
built
should not be over
It
twentv inches deep, as
Those who have
the first of our objects.
has a large air surface, that
it
The same quantity of water will accommodate more fish when there is a large air surface than when the
with the present magazine.
To
The aquarium should be
that
preferably wider.
the matter and agreed to merge their bulletin
work.
should be at least as wide as
larger view of
this
and has a richer
easily polisht
is
appearance than gilding or paint on iron-
to bring into
SagiUaria
in arti-
most
in subscriptions.
5
is
is
best for the other plants,
about the best oxygenator and
satisfactory
all
around
plant,
it
be
should
used
extensively.
Cabomha,
and Potamogeton are fair oxygenators, but are to be used more for their
Litdirigia
NitcUa grows too rapidly
foliage effect.
and
around the other plants retard-
collects
should not be level,
soil
visable,
need not
it
have one or two depressions
in
should
it
and here
it,
is
l)uttons,
placed on the upper edges of the
frame.
This keeps out dust and forein
When
as lessens evaporation.
the fish are added, which should take
place after the plants are well rooted and
the luniuis and precipitate will collect and
are oxygenating the water,
may
add a few pieces of old plaster of
be easily removed by the dipping tube
This neutralizes
or siphon. I believe it is best to
up toward the
The
the center. in
sides,
have the
soil
slope
with a low space
may
plants
in
be arranged
groups, according to their height and those
foliage,
with
densest
the
foliage
should be farthest from the window
;
so as
to allow as much light as possible to penetrate thru from the side of the aquarium. It
makes a better foliage
ar-
effect to
range the plants in groups of one kind
The
each.
best light for plants
the north, but east light
that
is
when
this
is
from
cannot be had an
fairly satisfactory.
I
acidit}^ in the
the development
for
In the acjuarium
have
to
keep the to
any
there
enough oxygen be supplied to from coming to the surface I find it
extent.
Feeding Aquarium Plants S. CuicHKSTEi! Lloyd Brooklyn, N.Y.
an
After months of experiment and I
have come
to the conclusion that
cellent flesh-eating scavengers, they will in-
rium
Scavengers should be
given a permanganate, then a strong salt
new
fish
should have before entering the tank, this
many
to allow
(To be Concludeii)
tail.
sort of fertilizer
kills
life,
body for each gallon of measurement I do not count
fish
In this
water.
a good rule, where
considerable plant
is
at least
the conditions
fish
one inch of
the
is
believe
fish in
all
bony
fishes'
we should endeavor
aquarium with goldfish, altho they are ex-
bath for a few minutes just as
of the
balanced, that
it
such, that
The scavengers best suited are snails (Japs, Ramshorn and Potomac), mussels
jure the goldfish.
paris.
water and
structure as well as the shells of the snails.
two hours of morning sun.
and tadpoles. Never put paradise
well to
is
it
furnishes mineral salts, which are essential
aquariums should have at least
all
ad-
and should
tightly
fit
be raisd slightly from the top by rubber
particles, as well
ing their growth.
The
cover over the top of the aquarium
of the parasites that infest them.
is
trials
some
for plants in the aqua-
an absolute necessity.
I
have
found that to a certain extent plants will flourish outdoors in plain gravel,
and with
nothing more nourishing than atmospheric influence and fish excrement, but I have notiet that such ])lants
do not start grow-
Plants should likewise hav an antiseptic
ing to any extent for a long period after
bath before putting them in the aquarium,
j)lanting,
C)
or 10 minutes in a bath of two gallons
of water to which has been added 5 teas))oonfnls
of
creolin,
after
which
should be washt for several hours
in
they
gen-giving leaves.
run-
are
ning water.
The
strength of permanganate solution
used for
fish
that the color
and scavengers should be so is a light claret red and they
should he observd closely while in this solution,
stronger solutions
kill
them.
A
and then the growth
glass
is
either
very slow or of a condition that runs to length of stem rather than to actual oxy-
Indoors the conditions
sometimes good, but more often the gravel turns black and the roots the same,
and the
means
slightest
stirring
of
the
gravel
a most uiq)leasant odor of decayed
])lant. wliile
the growth of plant
some cases;
tlie
to])
is
nil in
remaining green but
the bottom ahnost disconnected
from the
A
root. Tliis is evidently and obviously wrong, and the only remedy I know of is
empty
to entirely
to float in a
shallow
dish until the roots lose the blaek color, wliieh
sometimes take a week.
will
extreme cases loss of the entire
In
])]ant
may
Then, after thoroly washing the boihl gravel in running water, lay a half occur.
inch of
it
on the bottom of the afjuarium,
manure, covering
ail
inch and
lialf
;i
be
and the plants,
finger
with at least
of boild. waslit gravel.
may now
Small holes
this
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the
safrit-
inserted as thickly as and hidwigia which the water should be carefully pourd in so as to avoid bringing
tarid
disired, after
any of the manure
to the surface thru a
In order to make manure was not injurious to experimented by taking a large
disturbance of the sand. sure that the the fish
I
5r)-inch
washtub,
which until
it
they
had
all
settld
to
water
I
floated
l)eautifully
a
of loose
lot
one and a half-inch young scaleless fringetails in
good health, and three that were
poor condition from bruising and cold
These
transit.
fish
I
very
kindly to
left in the
in in
acjuarium
experience
bitter
life.
which
in
specimen leapt to
colored
death on the schoolroom
floor
necessary to keej) the tank cox
Besides the dace
we took
sunfish (Lcpomis ci/anellns)
it
a
his
was found red.
(
a few green
and one small-
mouth black bass
{Micropterus
dolojuicu).
On
to the bridge
we
the
way back
seined
some weedy, quiet stretches of the creek and added to our collection a lot of fine top-minnows or killifishes {Fuitdulus nolatus).
These
quiet, social little fellows are
very acceptable additions to our finnv fam-
and hav fallen in very easily with ways of the small aquarium. ily
Getting back to the bridge wives
nud put one dozen
gigantica,
Aiiac/ifiri.s-
one
manure the bottom and
was black, so that a fish could not be seen an inch below the surface. Into this
take
After
our coat pockets
the water
the
for all
They are a most l)eautiful (ish, especially when in full courting ri-galia, and ertbrts.
with water into
stirred several jiounds of
I it
filling
I'AciK:})
Hut the few we got repaid us
over this scatter a thin layer of pulverised slieeji
for Darters
(Continued fkom
the tank, boil the gravel
and allow the plants
Hunt
for
away, and there
in the
carefully
our
stowd
big out-of-doors
munchd our sandwiches and sjkuIs
we
talked over the
By
ex]H-riences of the day.
had divided our
we sought
the cold bites
had
mothers
or
tin'
the time
and cared
for
we our
])ets the afternoon train came jiuffing u)) and we dejiarted for our homes in the city, vowing to return at the first opportunity
in
the Spring.
tub for
three weeks, feeding tlieni daily or every
other day as the opportunit}' arose, and at ^^'atcll
the end of that time
I
examined them.
your snails carefully, the vege-
All table feeders
were
fat
and
lively,
and of good
color, with cially
the excejjtion of one very sick one of the three, the other
two were
to
to
stalk.
my
I
immediately
entire
some 22
collection
ous, thev are
^
and a half on each started to
of
which
are
Snails
big
in all.
(To BE Conci.iided)
are not danger
(oj)i-rcles)
recovery.
Proof conclusiv that even the intense heat and excessiv ammonia fumes were not injurious to fine goldfish. The Anaeliaris had foot
))lants
frequently (hstroyed by the snails. h;iving covers
a
))rove dangerous, espe-
tissued
com]:)letely cured,
and the third on the road
grown about
may
soft
dismantle
a(iiiariunis,
to
mostlv carnivorous.
on can do nothing more inqxtrtant than
interest
your friend
ings of nature; one
way
in is
the
homely do-
to j)reseiit
him
(or her) with a year's subscription to the
AgiAHiiM magazine.
SOCIETY BULLETIJWS Officers for 1912
Brooklyn Aquarium Society
W.
except June, July
St., at 8
Fee,
Owen H.
Smith, 52 Wall
Treasurer
Harry Roessle
Breed"
1.
— by
S.
New York
702 Fulton
P. Fritz
Owen H. Smith Street
to
Chichester Lloyd
Competitive Exhibit of Live-Bearing Fishes
Also:
Scaleless Goldfish, March 12, 1912, Prize {Blue Ribbon), H. F. Quick, for Squarctail TelChichester Lloyd, for Ribbontail Telescope; 5d Prize
At the Second Monthly Competitive Exhibit of the following Ribbons were awarded: escope; 2d Prize (Red Ribbon), S.
P.M. 5
,
Theodore
Local Business Manager,
138 Eldert Street
St.
Financial Secretary
April 26th Lefture: "Persuading Highly-Developed Male Goldfish
gust, at Fairchild Building,
Initiation
DeVoe, Box 383, Baldwin, N.Y
Dr. Rudolph C. Lienau Local Editor, Sylvester C. Llovi)
ir:?tr
month and Au
702 Fulton
F.
Vice-President
Regular meetings are Fourth held on the Friday in every
Corresponding and Recording Secretary
President
ist
(White Ribbon), Harry Roessle), for Calico Comet. At the First Monthly Competitive Exhibit of Fringetail Goldfish, February 13, 1912, 1st, 2d and 3d Prizes Blue, Red and White Ribbons) were awarded to S. T. Smith for Calico Broadtail Telescope, CalicoVeihail Telescope and Large Humpbackt Fringetail Comet, respectively.
00
1
Annual Dues,
32.00
Chicago Fish Fanciers' Club
Officers for 1912 F. S. Young, 428 West 66th Street Dr. G. a. Preusker, 457 North Avenue F.G.Orsinger, I 23 South Oakley Boulevard Carl Fossetta, 1500 Diversey Buulevard Tracy H. Holmes, 2816 Logan Boulevard Tracy H. Holmes, 1522 Rockwell Street Pieser, 3800 Grand Boulevard f. G.
President
Vice-President Secretary
Treasurer
Regular
meetings
are
on
held
Second and Fourth Wednesday of each month, at 729 Stock Exchange Building, La Salle and Washington Streets, at 8.30 P.M. the
Initiation Fee, $1.00
Aquarium Society
tjuu
Regular meetings are held on Second Thursday at the
the
German
-
American
Sherman Ave.,
Jersey City, and
on the Fourth Friday erican
Museum
School, at the
Am
Local Editor Local Bus. Mgr.
April 2 ^th Lecture:
New
Officers for 19 12
Isaac
.
.
Cor. Sec'y, Rev.
Henry
S.
Park York, each month
Local Business Manager, Isaac Buchanan, 143 Liberty St.,
April 26th:
Dues, $2.00
Lecture of
:
month, except May, June, July and August, at each
Street.
$100 Annual Dues, $1.80
Corresponding Membership $1.00 Annually
New York
New
York
New York
Meeting
"The Freshwater Molluscs
New York
of the Vicinity
City," by Silas C.
Wheat
Officers for 1912
Wm. T. Innes, Jr., 1311 Sansom St. Charles Paxson, 2521 N. 9th Street Treasurer Fred Schaefer, 1610 N. 2d Street Secretary and Bus. Mgr., Howard S. Crees, 3744 N. 13th St. President and Local
Vice-President
April 24 Regular meetings are held on Fourth Wednesday of the
Initiation Fee,
St.,
i
Philadelphia Aqu a r i u m Society uuuutr
414 Arch
Coffin, 129 East 71st
Treasurer, H. A. Richtberg, 85 South i6th St., East Orange, N.J. Librarian, Hermann Hoffmeister, 65 Webster Av., Jersey City, N.J. Local Editor, |ohn Treadwell Nichols, Am. Museum of Nat. Hist.
•
except July and August.
1
Devices," by
Buchanan, 143 Liberty Street, New York Vice-President, Richard Dorn,7 Norman Rd., Upper Montclair, N.J. Recording Secretary, Arthur Osborn, 42 South St., Jersey City, N.J. President
of Natural His-
Initiation Fee, $1.00
dis-
Young and Carl Fossetta.
tory, 77th St. and Central
West,
"The Aquarium";
cussion led by William Kopp May gfh Lecture: "Aerating F. S.
Annual Dues, $1.00
New York
Librarian
Stereopticon
Editor,
.
:
.
Competition
Lecture
Buchanan,
AWARDS
—
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Fringetails
Under One Year
Aquarium Fish," by Isaac York Aquarium Society.
of Tropical
New
MARCH
One Year) 27, 191a Ribbon), Chas. Haldeman; (Red Ribbon), Chas. Haldeman; (White Ribbon), Fred Schaeker. Scaled Fringetail Telescopes, (Blue Ribbon), A. T. Coles; (Red Rilbon), A. T. Coles; (White Ribbon), L. M. Dorsey, Jr. Old Style Telescopes, (Blue Ribbon), L. M. Dorsey, "Jr.; (Red Ribbon), A. C. Heilig. Scaleless
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The members the
of the
C
hicago Fish Fan-
It
members
to
have too few than too
your aqnarimn.
fishes in
of the eastern chibs in this, the
issue of our united
first
better
is
many
Chib extend their hearty greetings to
ciers
We
efforts.
sin-
cerely hope that this magazine will create If
and maintain a fraternal feeling between the
members
lectively
of the several clubs, both coland individually, and we, as indi-
viduals,
solicit
us to
It will
a
anywhere whose
friend
nothing will give him more ])leasure than
an a(]uarium.
Send him
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to
kee])
be a pleasure for
of
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correspondence
eastern brothers.
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eyes are open to the uni\trsf about him.
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with
in
a
copy
him
to
subscribe.
the east
by sending native species from our streams or exotic varieties raised by our
members.
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for
Fifty Years
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