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Title: Aquatic life
Identifier: aquaticlife219161917baus (find matches)
Year: 1916-1917 (1910s)
Authors: Bausman, Joseph E
Subjects: Aquariums; Fish culture
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. E. Bausman
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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100 SLquaUc mu must be separated from the parent as soon as possible otherwise they will surely be devoured. Their first food will be the larger infusoria possibly, and I have found that they incessantly nibble the algse that grows in profusion on the glass. When larger they should get Daphne and Cyclops. Live food, how- ever, I don't believe to be absolutely
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Nitella flexilis Courtesy of Innes and Sons necessary. I have raised three consecu- tive broods on finely ground dry shrimp, but I think they would have grown faster on live food. In nature Holbrooki feeds on mosquitoes and other insects, at times mosquito wrigglers will be its prin- cipal food. It also eats vegetable matter, such as diatoms, desmids and filament- ous algse. I use quite a good deal of dried shrimp for all my fishes, sifting it into several sizes, using the coarsest for the large ones and the finest for the babies. I find it extremely satisfactory, and my fishes seem to like it. All get a little of it every day, and scraped lean raw beef every other day. In concluding my little story of Hol- brooki I suggest keeping its aquarium at a moderate temperature, 65 to 70 de- grees Fahrenheit, being most acceptable to this hardy and attractive aquarium fish. The generic name Gaiiibiisia is derived from the Cuban word "gambusino," which means "nothing;" affinis means re- lated ; holbrooki, in honor of Holbrook. I have now in flower for the first time a large plant of Sagittaria sinensis, which has been growing in my 50-gallon aqua- rium for the past three years. This is one of the tanks that has been doing so nicely by reflected light, about which I wrote you some time ago. The water has been maintained at about 60 degrees, Fahrenheit, since last fall. Many have admired the delicate little blossom. Another item of interest. Aquarists and lovers of the terrarium are often puzzled to find a food for salamanders. Since early fall I have fed a dozen on a ration made from equal parts of Peter's and Walp's fish foods. After they learned to eat it they took it as raven- ously as the fishes.—J. Henii V/agner. Several species of European snails have been introduced into this country, a))parently as eggs in straw used for packing imported objects. It certainly speaks for the creatures' resistance that an egg caught on a growing stalk should survive the conversion of the plant into straw, the accidents of warehouse and voyage, and finally hatch out on the waste pile.—Guide to Nature.

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