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Title: The care of home aquaria
Identifier: careofhomeaquari00osbu (find matches)
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Osburn, Raymond Carroll, 1872-
Subjects: Aquariums
Publisher: New York, The New York Zoological Society
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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THE CARE OF HOME AQUARIA 37
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SOFT-SHELLED TURTLE. Upper side. It is well known that various forms of domestic animals, as well as the wild species confined in zoological gardens, make the best growth and keep in the most satisfactory condition when sup- plied only with what food they will clean up at one feeding. This applies with equal force to the inhabitants of the aquarium, but besides the7-e is a real and grave clanger of coiitanfiinating the ivater hij supplying more food thayi ivill be readily consumed. It is a well known fact that some aquarium animals will live for a long time without feeding, especially when kept at lower temperatures, but to maintain them in this condition results eventually in death by starvation and is the worst form of cruelty to which they can be subjected. The effects of starvation may be readily observed on such an animal as the sea-anemone, v/hich, if kept without food, may live for months, but will gradu- ally shrink in size until only a small fraction of its original bulk remains. Higher animals, such as salamanders and fishes, if kept at a low temperature require but little or no food, since many cold-blooded animals naturally spend the colder portion of the year in hibernation, but at the temperature of the living

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