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Title: Aquatic life
Identifier: aquaticlife319171918baus (find matches)
Year: 1917-1918 (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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72 Si(\mtit JLitt but for the effecting of a perfect balance of marine animals and plants it is still difficult to advanace any unfailing recipe. As with fresh-water forms, the animals much animal life is certain to prove fatal. All-glass aquaria are the best for salt water, and are the only kind used at the New York Aquarium for small marine depend largely upon the oxygen thrown balanced aquaria. v^-^-^» I ^ n ^» ^iff
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A SELF-SUSTAINING SALT WATER AQUARIUM /. off by the plants, while the plants take up the carbonic acid gas exhaled by the ani- mals ; and, as with fresh water, the iquaria whose capacities are measured by the gallon are more satisfactory than those holding only quarts. There is small danger from an excess of plants, but too Marine collections of the "happy fam- ily" order are successfully maintained at the New York Aquarium in eight-gallon jars, with two kinds of plants, and as many as eleven forms of animal life. The plants are the red alga Soleria chordalis, sometimes attaching itself to rocks, and

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