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Title: Goldfish breeds and other aquarium fishes, their care and propagation : a guide to freshwater and marine aquaria, their fauna, flora and management. With 280 explanatory illustrations, printed with the text
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Wolf, Herman Theodore, 1855-
Subjects: Aquariums Goldfish
Publisher: Philadelphia : Innes & sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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The plants should be frequently sprayedwith water. For this purpose either a small sprinkling can or a floristsaspirator is best. Animals for Terraria. Almost any of the lower forms of smallland animals may be introduced. For the Dry terrarium, butterflies,beetles and other insects, land snails, slugs, hop toads, tree toads, hornedtoads, lizards, snakes and small tortoises ; and for the Moist terrariumaquatic insects, snails, tadpoles, frogs, newts, salamanders, water snakesand turtles. Most interesting collections can be made of animals whichlive in harmony with each other and such added which will serve them asfood. 331 TERRARIA AND AQUA-TERRARIA Aqua-Terraria. These receptacles combine the aquarium and theterrarium, their purpose being the growing of aquatic and semi-aquaticplants and the maintenance of aquatic and amphibious animals in sur-roundings nearest to those of their natural habitats, that the adults as wellas the larvae and young may be kept for observation and study. The
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FIG. 238. Swamp Aquarium. effect produced is far more handsome than that of the aquarium alone,and when the aqua-terrarium is of large size, it permits of most beautifuland interesting arrangement, as may be seen by the illustration at the endof this volume. The upper part is arranged to set upon the loweraquarium, and of this latter the two sides and a part of the back are built 332 TERRARIA AND AOUA-TERRARIA of or screened with slate to conceal the back of the rockvvork and earth inwhich the plants are grown. Another form consists of a shallow open tank or aquarium having alayer of soil covered with pebbles arranged to slope from a depth of iinches to within a half inch of the surface, screened by paint on the glassto just above the soil level so that only the clean surface of pebbles is ex-posed. In these varying depths of water a great variety of aquatic andsemi-aquatic plants maybe grown, sagittaria, ludwigia, fontinalis, anacharisand cabomba to grow submerged; parrots feather, w

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