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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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74 j^quatlc Jiitt kept. They live on mollusks, however, however, and a supply of the mud snails is necessary for them. With a starfish it would not be possible to keep alive an oyster, clam, or any other mollusk in the jar, and at best the starfishes are not long-lived in captivity. Probably the most attractive of all small fishes is the sea horse; and the gen- eral desire to own one is so great that horses, tells us that he feeds them on Daphnia—the common water flea of the ponds—by taking the sea horses out of the salt water and the daphnia out of the fresh water, and putting them all into brackish water one-third salt and two- thirds fresh. Within an hour the sea horses are replaced in salt water, and this process he repeats each day. Fresh- water shrimps may be used in the same
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SEA-LETTUCE (ULVA) AND RED SEAWEED people even inquire if they could not keep one in the same jar with their goldfishes! The little creature is difficult to provide for except with running sea water and salt water Gammarus—the minute shrimp that infests the sea-lettuce. Some have succeeded in maintaining Sea horses for a number of months in balanced aquaria by feeding them with fresh chop- ped prawn on the end of a stick, which die little fish soon grows tame enough to take. A New York dealer in aquaria and aquarium supplies, who sells sea way. During a shortage of Gaiumarus last winter we succeeded in enticing some of the sea horses to eat the fresh-water worm Tubifex, which will live for half an hour in salt water. Other fishes, also crabs and prawns, annoy the sea horse, but it is possible to keep anemones, barnacles, oysters and clams in the same jar with them. The salt water aquarium requires strong light, but should have very little direct sunlight—none in the summer, and not over an hour or two a day in winter.

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