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Aquarium Notes R.
W. SHUFRLDT, M.
curate photograi)hs from
D., Wasliiiiffton, D. C.
first
wishes you more
continued success
in this
needed publication than
minilK-r of the
of fishes, fresh water and marine vertebrata,
substantial
do.
and
and the entire invertel>rata,
list
of aquatic plant-life and
wherewith
The maga-
tedious and expensive methods are giving
in
woi'k of the cam-
with
era
this im-
more
portant and inter-
and
depart-
esting
the
before
Avay
be everything we
need
our
illustrate
literature; while, at the present time, these
promises to
zine
to
much
venture and I
obliged to rely entirely upon
the brush and pencil to obtain our pictures
I
new nature magazine, The Aquarium, and no one
In former
read
was with especial pleasure that every line of the
we were
many
of so
life
forms for illustrative purposes. years,
IT
Number 4
1912
far
its
accurate
JK-autiful re-
sults.
ment.
At
Some
different
my
ten
or
life,
twelve years ago,
have kept aquaria of various
made my first I experiments in
times in I
kinds
my
those kept by friends,
and
jihotography
the
examined
;
of living fishes in their natural ele-
ac-
the
complished some-
ment,
thing in the way
paj^er having
of i>hotographing
published by the
live
fishes
gov e r n m e n t
and
other living forms
To
aquaria.
in
me
it
is
that
some such
publi-
cation
as
THE RED
TRlTO]<lâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;{Spelerpes ml
Photo from
life
we
is
word
in
it
copy
work
A
induced
one of the important ad-
possess to aid us in the study of
regard to
its
in
the
me
same
f)f
his superb
field.
few years afterwards,
I
had an aqua-
Experiments in Pliotojrraphy of *Shufeldt, R. W. Live Fishes. Bulletin United States Fish Commission, Vol. XIX for 1899, pp. 1-5, plates 1-9. tFabre-Domergiic. La Photofrraphie des Animaux Aquatiqaes. Paris, 1899, p. 5. 10 photogravure plates and 2 text cuts. This work is not nearly as well known in this country as it deserves to Ve; its author had special facilities for pursuing: the experiments he did, as he was, at the time, adjunct dinctor of the zoological and physiological laboratory of marine forms of the College of
living aquatic forms of all kinds, to say not
a
peared,
with a beautiful
The
the aquarium
this ap-
gue to present
by Dr. Sliufeldt
Aquarium has not appeared in this country sooner; for, as we all know, there are many such magazines published in Europe and elsewhere; and, what is more to the point, juncts
.
When
M. Fabre-Domer-
truly re-
markable
first
been
use in securing ac-
France.
29
(Concarneau).
rium made to
onlt-r for the-
which he
purpose
s])t*c'ial
of lihotographing all kinds of animals, under
this device
I
secured some beautiful nega-
newts,
tebrates,
employment
of
Sulvsequently,
etc.
the
all
parts
fluid
This
rest.
time floating
all his
just beneath the surface of the water;
by
one jars the recejitacle
if
in
He
possible.
hoAvever, being api)a-
it,
and ignoring
it
mandibles
in his
by sucking the
satisfied
specimen spends nearly
I
used
aquaria
similar
from
through the
obtained
studied the results
rently
marine inver-
tives of living fishes, turtles,
once siezed
did not consume
With
water or not, as the ease might be.
at
the most voracious manner
in
which he
but
li\
es,
Spencer of the Ncav York Aquarium, and others. At this time, I am about to order
the least
a similar device for photograjihic purposes,
tained good photographs of Belostovtn, but
and
trust to i)ublish, in the ])resent
I
few of the results
zine, a
Some days ago
I
I
men
of Spelerpes rube)
abundant
is fairlj"
tricts
about Washington.
far.
them
Red Triton country dis-
in the
My
an illustration to these notes. lected for
It
me by Mr. G. W. H.
was
who
uralist
has
made
many rare species. Many of the Urodelci
I
goldfish
for
others
col-
—
fishes
I
keeping
Avith
— for
conii)arison
care but
I
— such
sunfishes, the
My
alive.
as
pickerel,
and some dozen
best
object
lesson,
from the study of a
Avas gained
number
large
Soelner, of
have ob-
I
have been very success-
in
species of
however,
of Amhlystoma tigrinum, which
My
kept for long periods together.
ob-
servations on the subject appeared in several
a specialty of mollusks,
fine collection of
the whole,
cat fishes, eels, sticklebacks
343() Seventeenth Street, this city, a nat-
and has a
experimented
the
in
aquaria with other animals.
several
so
i)ictures.
once swims about
keeping native
in
little
here reproduced as
is
in
On
are of the animal out of water, and one
of the best of
never
them tiil
at
frantic style imaginable.
have
in securing a
a fine adult speci-
— the
which
maga-
obtain.
succeeded
few excellent negatives of
most
he
bit,
to
letters
them, including
in
the editor of Science, beginning
the issue of October 22, 1886 (p. 367),
where some of the points are most interest-
in
the habits of
these animals Avere published for the
ing and instructive forms to keep in aquaria,
first
time.
metamorphoses and life affordsome of the most important and in-
their several
ing
Fish Life of a Florida
structive data in the entire range of biology. I
JOHN TRKADWEI.I. NICHOLS, New
have fi-equently kept the Sjwtted Triton
WR
(Diemyctylux viridesceiis) and i)hotograi)hed it
alive
ity are
under water.
Years ago
I
had them breed
in
by a
that full
1
have next to
it,
1
may
in a glass
rior
say
jar half
Water-bug {Belostoma ameticfmuui)
He
is
age
I
in fine
six
,
live
the
in
is
deep enough
for
to clear,
more
fresh Avater, and a fcAV
small boats bring us to a stretch of
miles
in
river
betAveen banks
of
mangrove
trees,
bushes and grass, glistening under the sun,
which
Avhich
uncomfortably
is
hot, though
month is February. The whole scene teems with
weeks.
condition, and a day or
threw him a small,
The channel
Florida.
of water, a large sjjecimen of the (Hant
has not eaten anything for nearly
groAving
a large boat to penetrate far into the inte-
appears none
the worse for the exjierience.
trees
south for miles, forming the Avest coast of
in
a small china-lined receptacle, without havit
Mexico and en-
and Avhich here stretch north and
Avater,
My
month
lived over a
ing eaten anything, and yet
the shalloAV Avaters which
the (hdf of
mangrove
strange
an aqua-
killed
all
small pike that lived in the same tank.
Red Triton has now
left
Vork
tered Shark River, an oi)ening betAveen the
well worthy of study.
rium, but the young were
have
fringe
habits in cajitiv-
Its
Swamp
two
grasshopper,
yip,
m
yip
!
"
life.
the
"Yip,
comes the cry of a fish-hawk
from high up Fax*
zards look drift
A
in
where myriad swarms of little fishes are About a half of these are Gam-
the dazzHng sunny sky.
above him, balancing:
down upon
turkey buz-
lilack
his back,
drifting.
and others
by low, near the tops of the
biisia,
same species that fishes the northern streams in summer, flies along the creek, and flocks of herons and white ibises are squawking and gruntgray-lilue
A
holbroo/ci.
About a
third are Fundu-
lus goodei, a wonderfully pretty
kingfisher, the
ing everywhere.
with only here and there a black-
spotted
trees.
with red
fins
and a bold
lilack
little
fish
stripe
the
Fundulus chrysotus
length of the body.
a beautiful green species, spotted with
reddish serpent, l^ing
ver,
golden or red; and there
is
is
sil-
Girardinus
#
-.^1
Upper -GOODEI
Center
looped across a slimy patch of water-weed, shoots into the dei)ths like a fish strike at
him with an
oar.
when
xosteiiA-)
minute
live-bearing
species;
Ci/prinodou variagatus, the sheepshead min-
now
of the north; Jordanella Jiorida', some-
thing the shape of the
( Lepi-
last,
with usually a
squarish black spot on the side, and Fundulus
are dozing just beneath the surface,
and several species of
a
f'or7nosu.\\
I
Here and there
great thick skinned spotted gar pikes
Lowerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; JORDANELLA
-GAMBUSIA
sunfish. as also the
ocellaris,
with a black spot on the back
fin.
large-mouthed bass {Mio-opterus xalmoides) are
swimming
open water,
restlessly about
making
in
occasional
the more
The most northern fresh water fishes known are two salmon fish which still occur
predatory
rushes into the shallows along the shore
and among the clogging green weed which here and there rises to the surface, and
in latitude r)0{)
31
82° N.
in
miles from the
Grant Land,
i)ole.
less
than
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Moonwort and
around
ferns,
structure indicates a connection with the
other matter to the Business Manager
Editor-in-Chief,
botanists consider the Iso-
Editor-in-chief;
to the
direct
Some
be related to the
to
Adderstongue
by the Aquarium Societies of Brooklyn, Philadelphia Chicago, New York and
Vol.
In the scale
plants called the fern allies.
of plant development the pteridophytes
Isoetes, or to use
quillwort,
essentially
is
an upright or spreading rosette of hollow cylindrical pointed leaves of a grass-like
::
The
or rusli-like aspect.
No. 4
1912
leaves vary in
length in the various sjiecies from a few
Aquatic Plants
Worth
POYSER, Chicago
springing
The QriLLwoRT
as
lobed
an Aquarium
Plant.
Even
botanists
to
gardless of a
its
Isoetaceae,
the
re-
little
known group
name
Isoetes
is
said
to
of
be
ous, that
de-
from
the
tri-
new centre
The plant reproduces
portion
are of
The
outer leaves.
more, or
The
root-stock.
which
spores
even
bi-lobed
flat
rosette.
lowed-out
The
plants comprising about fifty species.
generic
from
is
a
or
produced
are
the
of
from
number from
in
hundred
tuber-like
leaves
interesting eliaracterisies,
comparatively
to
and
feet,
two
ten
\V. A. ?>.
inches to two
Cultivating
(CoNCIl'DKI))
born
quillwort
is
a
hol-
of
the
in
base
the
heterospor-
bears spores of the two sexes
is,
Greek words meaning "equal" and "year" and was applied be-
on the same plant but
cause of the jxrennial eh;iracter
about one-fourth the size of a pin-head and
from
rived
two
While the
leaves.
The
of the
few
pur];)ose of this article
interest as
aquarium
})lants,
it
an outer coat of
may
botanical
a
point
of
view
microscope
The systematic as
a
botanist
difficult
one.
marking regards
Students
is,
the markings.
which
should aid in identification.
grou])
being
spore
not be amiss to give a brief description
from
this
The
cies.
mud and
of
beautifully
Much
of
its
relationship to other
only
They belong in that Vegetable Kingdom called
A
stress
is
laid on this
quillwort occurs growing in sand,
A
great
many
spe-
always submerged, while others are
jiartially so, or
Enough
are terrestrial.
for the botanical phase of the subject.
plants.
division of the
mega-
sculptured.
gravel on the bottom and banks of
streams and lakes.
family, nor
spores have
in distinguishing the various spe-
cies are
classes
are
of course, required to see
l)lant life are
not by any means agreed as what constitutes a distinct species in
The
silicon, that of the
to
this
spores
number, while the male or micro-
long and very numerous.
inasmuch as
they arc usually ignored or given scant attention in works on the aquarium,
in
female
or
spores are about one-thousandth of an inch
primarily, to direct attention to their
is,
megaspores
in different leaves.
While the adaptability of the quillwort
"Pterido])hyta," which includes the ferns
to the
purposes of the aquarist
and some other spore-bearing or flowerless
broad
as
32
many
other
easily
is
not as
obtainable
plants,
it is
entitled to consideration
on account of
and
istics
Aquarists
if
only
of the fact tliat the plant
posiition in the vegetable world.
are
steadily
broadening
their
when one was self a
The day
knowledge of nature.
tlie
grows
abundance.
in
Where found
aquarium.
dition to
it
content to consider him-
competent aquarist by reason of
it
proves a most valuable and interesting ad-
field of interest and thus securing a far
greater
subject to at-
is
tack by some species of fishes and snails
character-
interesting
its
German
probably often overlooked.
is
number of
dealers catalog a
it
Being inconspicuous species, those
of North America bringing highest prices.
his
abilty to maintain a combination of glass,
sand, anacharis, cabomba, sagittaria and a
The Sex
few goldfish has fortunately passed. The aquarium opens up a means of readily delving into
many departments
of natural
of Goldfish
CHARLES PAULLIN,
Philadelphia
We
all want to know, especially during spawning season, the best way to tell the males from the females. There are several ways of telling the
the
sex of goldfisli.
and
gills
by the spots on the
First,
male, and the distended
fins of the
appearance of the female.
male
swimming
fish
way
the best way, and a
known even breeders, tlie
is
body of
Second, by the
after the female.
But
not generally
some of our most expert
to
the difference in the shapes of
during the spawning
fish
tlie
season. If
you
down
will look
at the fish
from
above you will find that the body of the female
uneven, extending further back on
is
one side than on the other, for the reason that one ovary (roe)
than
is
always more developed
mate, giving the
its
fish
a lop-sided
appearance, while in the male the body extends more evenly on both sides.
QUILLWORT science, hence lect
it
anything that
within
its
From
behooves us not to neg-
may
be easily
studied
"Blaetter
confines.
kunde"
In the aquarium the quillwort forms a most excellent snail-food. Hence if one
would try the plant, out must go the However, it has at least one most able will
characteristic,
tenacity
hang on and produce
of
in
long as a bit of root remained.
to all
up
who wish
over
or
who wish
there.
Our
to
make
heartiest
aquarimn friends beyond
the sea."
splendid husky
plants that sent
North America,
greetings to the
I
forth leaf after leaf as
small, well gotten
be welcome
acquaintances
leaf after leaf
in a tank,
"The
und Teirarien-
The Aquarium,
information on the subject of the aquarium
It
have had, floating
mentioning
continues thus:
desir-
while a vestige of rootstock remains.
Aquarien
fuer
after
journal will
snails,
life.
the Fatherland
Subscription
to
the
"Blaetter"
is
2.75
marks (70c) per quarter, postage included. Subscriptions to be sent to
In spite 33
The Aquarium.
The
DR.
est
"wlutl
or
hear-
Ehrenberg classed them
and one-tenth nnn. in length. These little fellows put dramatic movement into the Some sport around in life of the })ond.
Some
ship.
worms
still
or
name they
this
anterior
end of the body
ciliated
apparatus,
organ," which
the
in
is
still
bear.
position
so-called
named The
first
species.
with
is
eiliie
organ
used
for
two-fold purpose, for locomotion and tor creating a current in the
a
spokes
the is
ciliae
sumed
it
a
little
is
it
is
no wheel
is
jjlainly to in
the progenitors of the
to
tree of the
stomach of many
and
renal
cells,
glands,
clockwork, so transi)arent
most of them.
Vermes
an
intestine,
brains
and
is
the skin of
Manifold are their shapes.
Free swimmers have balancers and other attachments assisting them in floating and
swimming.
cocaine or quince-gum
slackens and thus
seen that there
the conclusion that our roti-
The microscope reYou veals all these organs in operation. seem to look through a window at a delicate
struct
ex-
Most of the casings
protective
sessile ones con-
of
foreign
ma-
exude a jelly-like covering (Floscularia). Others simply are attached by a pedicel ending in a sucking
amined microscopically the play of the cilite
end are
in the
nerves and red ejes.
observers as-
the water in which the animal
the
are at
Rotifers have a motile dental appa-
salivary
as a fact that the animals carried
By adding
relations
The
a wheel, hence the name.
to
Hence
ratus, a
This appearance first
of
cilia
(Worms).
water where-
glass this ceaseless
so deceptive that the
forms
In them the
tjqje.
also
looks like the turning of
of a wheel.
their affinities of
larval
phylum or genealogical
moment, scalloped the next, lobed, even-branched or arm-
Under a powerful
play of the
that
fers are exceedingly primitive forms with
circular for one
like.
Worms
much developed, but
mouth.
by edible substances are brought to the The "wheel" looks ever hungry maw. then frilled,
We know
one of which appears constant about the
"wheel-
This
which
everything
restricted to certain localities of the body,
of very variable appearance
different
beset
the
certain
Trochophora
close
thickly
among
with
type
carries a retractile
the
placed
is
organized, and offer as an excuse for their
rocks.
W^heel animals the older naturalists
them and
Here
these animals are many-celled and highly
ponds or the puddles of
tree-trunks
great class of animals which
has to serve as a catch-all to the zoolo-
cannot be elsewhere put.
swamps. One family of them, the Bdelloidae, occurs in the moss of house-roof's, and in the of
the rotifers are classed with the
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that
gist.
quiet backwaters of streams, the bottoms
lichen-growths
rotifers in appearance, all were
Today
live in
and mollusks lead parasitic lives, but by far most numerous are those that prefer the of plant-grown
as "Infusoria."
])romptly put together as of one relation-
ii'onns
the sea; some, in the intestines of
many
recall
are sessile on the plants, for
few
is
as one-celled ciliated infusoria frequently
mighty lances as do others
A
their
creatures were simply classed together, and
the clear water^ "Knights of the Lists," in
instance, under the lily pads.
Even now
with these fellows.
That was about a hundred years ago when the unicellular animals, the Protozoa, were not definitely known. Similar looking
length and they are giants of the race. usually vary hetween one-twentieth
thorns.
little
not the only thing of inter-
not quite clear.
They
clad^ bear
But the
exact position in the zoological system
few of them reach even three millimeters
armor
is
which
ciliae)
wheel organ
ers" form a vi-ry interesting chiss, only a
in
(the
BADE. New York
Ilotiftr.s
tlu'
hairs
little
rhytlnnically beat the water.
the niimitf animals wliicli jicoph'
wattr,
the
K.
simply
"Wheel"
the
Ainoii<>-
Fellows with
Little
terial
be
motion, but 34
(Mcliccrta)
,
or
Brachionus urceolaris, Melicerta ringens, Stephanoceros eichhorni The
disc.
Melicerta ringens, as an
figures in tlie
background are algae
again reach water they flourish as before.
example of
This state of anabiosis (lifelessness)
case-builder, possesses a so-called pill-or-
is
a
an open sac fringed with
ciliae,
well-known phenomenon shown by many
placed innnediately below the mouth.
This
organisms which after 200 years of obser-
gan which
is
sac catches stray little grainlets
them
into pills with the aid of
and turns
mucus
vation
or
blown about with the
and thus carried far and wide.
When
Rotifers
not well explained.
can remain in such an inert condition for months and years with impunity. Possibly
These are then carried out and deposited along the upper edge of the case, the whole case being built up of such "pills." Rotifers can withstand drying up for some slime.
time, being then
still is
they exude seals
a
jelly-like
them up and
so
substance which retains
a
certain
measure of moisture which carries the ani-
dust,
mals through the period of drowth.
they 35
Life
viTV
is
and adaptable
t-lastic
many contradictory may triumph o\-er
pliases
to
may
possess
organs within their bodies whose
signifi-
cance so far
The
unknown
is
Then
fast.
lay the razor blade between
the two plates, cut the i)rojecting part of
pegs
and
off
Now
even.
file
bore centre
B
through both plates suitable for a round headed (brass) screw with nut, a hole
to us.
shows three species very
illustration
either of brass
wire or screws, which are then soldered
Perhaps even
death.
these minute "wheel bearers"
made
sert a short brass peg,
and even then
nuieh maynified.
stove bolt will do.
To complete
vance a handle
made
is
the contri-
of iron or brass
(bent to an angle of iO or 15 degrees) fas-
Mechanical Helps in Aquarium
tened to one of the
Work A W.
'New Glass Cleaner G.
construct this simple appliance.
for cleaning-
wood screws for pegs which hold The handle can easily be fastened with screAvs on a wooden plate. using
from the glass of aquaria was deby
vised
Hubert
iNIr.
and was published
en und Terrarien Kunde.
It
and useful
itself so practical
of
Siegl,
in Blaetter fuer
blade
Prague, Aquari-
brought
it is
in place.
This will work quite as well as the
has proven
metal
to the writer,
of course, necessary to adopt a
is,
to the attention of others
who may have had
all
arrangement. It
that
Although
someAvhat clumsier, one of the plates and the handle may also be made of hard Avood,
LAMl'RECHT, Brooklyn
The following contrivance algae
])lates, making it ready Anyone handy with tools can
use.
for
difficulty in
make
certain
keeping their
making the
aquaria clean of algae without disturbing-
of blades as standard before
plates, as each style differs in
dimensions.
water plants. Various methods are used such as bristle, for the stickier a
bundle of
To
to clean glass,
steel and wire brushes, or brown algae cuttle bone or
shavings.
steel
Plaster
clean
the
move
position)
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; slowly
down along below the
little
the
glass
of
toj)
The
sand and "shave" clean.
Paris clouds the water; fine sand, in spite
edge of
the
(with handle held in an upright
surface to a
of
glass
the tool
tlu;
algae will
on the edge of the blade like shav-
of the finest grade used, will scratch the
roll u})
glass, thereby not only giving the algae a
ings and finally sink to the bottom, with-
growth, but also
out clouding the water in the least, after
still
surface
better
spoiling
its
for
transparency.
down movement
which the refuse can be gathered with a
The up and
dip tube, or,
of aquarium brushes causes
quite a stir in the water, disturbing the
sediment.
Nor
is
it
possible to clean the
Tile
glass to the edge of the sand on the bot-
tom, thus leaving a strip
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which
cannot reach.
To overcome
carded
razor
into
safety
use.
blades
of
jiraetieability
brushes
suitable only for an fectly
it.
this
Of
device
will
course, this
is
aquarium with a per-
smooth glass surface.
brought
For example we will take the
"Gillette," although
any other make may
There are
be used.
Take
preferred, left for the snails
please everyone using-
all this, dis-
are
if
to devour.
a piece of brass about l-K) inch in
species of
about
Contrast
this
13,000 with the
About
115 species which Aristotle knew\
thickness and cut two plates, boring holes to conform with those of the blade.
now known
fishes.
4000 of
In each
the species are
found
water, the others are marine.
of the outside holes of one of the plates in36
in
fresh
your trouble
S^ox
jCetter
water
which
What
good general food for gold-
One other
of thf best foods for goldfish and
which are not
fish
cooked with a
oatmeal,
boiled
amount of
salt
strictly carnivorous
slight
exactly the same as for table
piece as large as a shellbark nut
rium.
What They
My
about three-
across.
they have attained a
This
size of
is
eighths of an inch. Goldfish will for the
first
months eat their own bulk of this There is no danger of oatmeal food daily.
H. B.
are "dried African files" ?
are dried "water-boatmen."
fouling the water
Young
only a small quantity
if
fish in
is
a large outdoor tank'
be safely fed enough at one time to last
when the winter
fish are past their
should only have as
first
much
season comes summer, they
of any kind of
food as will be consumed in a few minutes.
about
insect
What
them
kill
the
the
out
them
of the
as well as
solution of
onl}'
inch
get rid of
to
to
known method They are known
very
troublesome
Take
established.
all
tank or aquarium, clean
you can and
\nit
a moderate
permanganate of potash
aquarium from which the this
way
fish.
and are
"fish-lice"
when they become fish
of an
one-eighth
the best
off is
that does not as
is
C. P. C.
Pick
fish
into the
Allow
came.
stand for a few days, change the
and ought to have variety
water and
a good idea to occasionally
necessary.
(joldfish like It is
golil/ish are pestered with a Jiat, trans-
them?
several
of food.
this condition,
should be sufficient for a 20-gallon aqua-
parent
day, but
your aquarium
A
fishes.
an
on or
in
would correct
be of benefit to the plants and
excellent food on which to raise fish after
which they could not swallow.
all
acid,
lump of
small
take out the large kernels
cloth so as to
may
A
as well as
able to strain the oatmeal through a coarse
used.
that the
slightly
is
to all snails.
is fatal
hard plaster of Paris put
If the fish are small it is desir-
purposes.
may be
It
your aquarium
in
until dissolved
A. J. E.
fish?
is
a
is
probably liecause they are
is
naturally short-lived.
return
the
Repeat
fish.
if
mix into the oatmeal a good grade of prepared
fish
food in the
shrimp, fish-roe
daphnia
or
form also do very
Chopped
smaller
well
the
in
is
or
dried
mixing
for
small earthworms
sizes;
in.
an excellent
Scraped raw lieef may be used oc-
food.
A mnnber
and sparingly.
casionally
of very
excellent prepared foods are advertised in
magazine, but
this
in their
sized nor
small
fish.
grains often produce indigestion
Too
large
and some-
Some of our expert Germany recommend that all
strangulation.
times friends
in
granular foods
first
be steeped
in boiling
water. /
am
rium. If
unable
to
Can you
my aquaH. F. IV.
keep snails alive in tell the
come from
They
fresh-water
tropical ?
W.
aquarium
P. sent
are principally
to
Germany
from different parts of the world and tributed from
India are
there.
two of the
dis-
South America and principal
sources of
supply.
use one should
see that very large grains are not fed to
medium
Where do fish
reason?
you have the so-called African
snails.
It
is
understood that
members
of the
societies receive their notification of
meet-
ings through the Society Bulletins in
Aquarium, thus making easier the
The
secretaries'
work as well as saving the cost of printing and mailing notices each month.
Next month we shall start an article on something of "Aquarium Management"
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
great value to the beginner and well worth
while for the old hands.
SOCIETY 'BULLETIJWS
Brooklyn Aquarium
Officers for 1912 President
W.
Vice-President Secretary
Regular
meetings are held on the Second and Fourth Wed-
nesday of each month, at 8098 I 2 City Hall Square Building,
127-139 North Clark at 8.30 P.M.
Librarian
Local
Street,
Bus.
W.
:
J.
President
rruu
Regular meetings are held on the Second Thursday at the
F.
S.Young.
.
Isaac
.
Buchanan, 143 Liberty
Arthur Osborn, 42 South Henry S. Coffin, 129 East
New
St., Jersey City,
71st St.,
York
New
N.J.
York
Treasurer, H. A. Richtberg, 85 South i6th St., East Orange, N.J.
Hermann Hoffmeister, 65 Webster Av., Jersey City, N. [. Treadwell Nichols, Am. Museum of Nat. Hist. Business Manager, Carl P. Ording, 1931 Broadway, New York
Librarian,
Am
Street,
DoRN, 7 Norman Rd., Upper Montclair, N.J.
Recording Secretary,
School, City, and
except July and August.
Ind.
W. A. Povser.
Cor. Sec'y, Rev.
i
Local Editor, John
of Natural His-
Initiation Fee, $1.00
work during post summer, by
Field
Vice-President, Richard
Park York, each month
Hammond,
Officers for 1912
Aquarium
New
St.,
G. Pieser, 3800 Grand Boulevard
September 2jth: Goldfish and Goldfish breeding.bv
New York
West,
to attend.
A. Poyser, 106 Carroll
Mgr.
September i ith
Annual Dues, $1.00
Museum
P. Fritz
H. Smith
I
Treasurer
Local Editor,
Initiation Fee, $1.00
tory, 77th St and Central
Theodore
F. S. Young, 428 West 66th Street Dr. G. a. Preusker, 457 North Avenue F.G.Orsinger, 23 South Oakley Boulevard Carl Fossetta, 1500 Diversey Boulevard Tracy H. HoLMts, 2816 Logan Boulevard
President
Fanciers' Club
erican
Harry Roessle
Officers for 1912
Chicago Fish
at the
New York
,
Local Business Manager, 0.\en 702 Fulton Street
924 Gates Avenue
and prospective members urged
on the Fourth Friday
St.
Financial Secretary
Regular meetings are held on Fourth Tuesday in every month except June, July and August, at Fairchild Building, 702 Fulton St., at 8 P. M. First meeting of the season, September 23d. Sale and exchange of young fish, any variety. Address by the President, W. F. De Voe. Visitors
Fee, $1.00
German - American Sherman Ave., Jersey
Smith, 52 Wall
Treasurer
Dr. Rudolph C. Lienau Local Editor, Sylvester C. Lloyd
Annual Dues, $2.00
Society
Owen H.
Vice-President
Society ^^ Initiation
Corresponding and Recording Secretary
DeVoe, Box 383, Baldwin, N.Y.
F.
Local
September 2Jth: "Fish Hatcheries of
Germany" by Rev. H.
S. Coffin
Dues, $2.00
Philadelphia Aqu ar i u m Society nutrutr Annual Dues, $1.80 Correspondinjr Membership $1.00 Annually
Initiation Fee, $1.00
Regular meet/ng are held on the Foutth Wednesday, at 1414 Arch Street.
Milwaukee
Officers for 1912
Wm.
T. Innes, Jr., 2th & Cherry Sts. 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 Editor,
Vice-President
September 2jth
.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Annual
Special exhibition of
Mr. Innes among
will
the
I
.
Election.
Sale
and exchange offish.
Mexican sword-tail
distribute
specimens
of red
fish.
Copenhagen
snails
members. Officers for 191
President
Aquarium
Vice-President
Society nuu
Treasurer
Secretary Librarian
C. G. B. ScHENCK, 105 Grand Avenue August Grau, 31 10 Grand Avenue
Reverend Paul Roth, 2602 Prairie Avenue M. J. C. Steffen, 950 First Street August W. Pollworth, 181 6 Wright Street
WM.
PAULLIN
L.
Goldfish Hatchery
Water Gardener GROWER OF THE
Finest Water Plants BREEDER OF
Fancy Goldfish and
Jacob C. Cassel Arch
915
Street,
Tropical Fish
Pa.
Philadelphia,
Manufacturer
Large Aquariums^ Ponds and Small
Aquariums
Lakes Stocked and Planted
Aquarium Ornaments Floral Terra Cotta, etc. and
Send
all
for
425
Catalog and Trade Prices
Sunfish.
known
Also
don
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Chaeto-
as
Mesogatiisteus
(
The
Chaetodon').
most
beautiful
and that
is
the
only one
not pugnacious
and that can be kept with Goldfish.
AQUARIUM SUPPLY CO DELAIR, ,
N.J.
THIELER DEALER
IN
Fancy Japanese Gold and
Flatbush Avenue,
and
fish
color;
healthy
and robust; will act as a laxative and is the best substitute It will not sour for Daphnia. or cloud the water. This food is used by the New York and Philadelphia Aquaria; also by
many
breeders in Philadelphia
and other large for
it
cities or send to
BROOKLYN,
HARRY
P.
PETERS
Warnock Street PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Market
Telephone Connection
fine fins
makes your
1210 North
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develop
Ask your dealer
Mocking-Bird Food, Etc.
in
will
Silver Fish
Aquaria, Fish Globes, Foods and Plants, Birds and Cages, Bird Seed,
Very Best
Greenriver Fish and Baby Fish Food also
one of the smallest,
33
cents a box, postpaid
WOLF STREET, PHILADELPHIA
of
the Sunfish family,
C.
5
aquarium requisites
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Hatchery Fish Food
Paullin's I
Fish Food
Fish Globes
Goldfish
Trv
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Waterproof Your Aquaria
IMPERVITE
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cement contains which dissolves in the water and will injure the fish.
1827-31
IMPERVITE
an Integral Waterproofing bituminous nature, manufactured
Compound of a in sea-green, is
up the
to seal
alkalies
MAKERS OF THE
Its
Rogers
it.
The
Crystal
Aerator and Filter
action
LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OF
of the cement and pre-
vent the water from penetrating
follow-
ing letter bears testimony to this fact: August 19, 1912 The Standard Paint Co. 100 William St., NeÂŤ' ^ork City Gentlemen: Obtaining unsatisfactory results from a number of preparations for waterproofing cement, an architect induced me to try IMPERVITE. The results have been all that could be desired and have successfully withstood the test of time. In concrete aquarium and pool construction 1 recommend your product on all
AVE.
CITY
is
red and other tints.
tile
WASHINGTON
NEW YORK
alkali
occasions.
The addition of IMPERVITE to the cement at the time it mixed not only renders the pool watertight but also eliminates the danger of having chemicals from the fresh cement wash into
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BREEDERS OF Japanese and Chinese Fringetail Telescopes and of Red, African and Japanese Snails
is
CULTIVATORS OF
the water and kill the fish. Yours very truly
(Signed) Wm. T. Innes, Jr. President of Aquarium Society of Philadelphia
Our booklet,
"-Integral Waterproofing for sent on request
Aquaria"
Sagittaria Natans and Gigantica and of Single-rooted Ludwigia MuUertti
The Standard Paint Company 100
Catalogue on application
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of all kinds
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Aquaria Tanks Fish Globes Ornaments, Etc.
LIVE.=BE.ARING FISHES Helleri, Brevis, Guppyi, Holbrooki, Reticulatus, Lati-
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NEST=BUILDING FISHE,S Two
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(Not Incorporated)
920
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W.
Dealers, Breeders and Others who
are tired of losing
fish
are urged to install an air
with or without running water
pump
pump
BRTND.
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W.
185th St.,
atalog
New York
Hofmans Bird
City
Store
from standpoint of hu-
manity as well as dollars and cents.
"Little
Wonder"
35 pounds pressure and is attached Will run 100 aquariums or care to your water fancet. for ten thousand fish in a hall bed room. Special price to society membe.s and dealers. No sunlight needed, no plants. Never breaks down. Write hydraulic
L.
gives
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and Other Supplies
Compaii);
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Broadway and Madison Street
Sole agents for aquarium purposes- In use by members of Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Chicago and Milwaukee Societies
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