
TERRARIA AND AQUA-TERRARIA 

Agua-TerrariA. These receptacles combine the aquarium and the 
terrarium, their purpose being the growing of aquatic and semi-aquatic 
plants and the maintenance of aquatic and amphibious animals in sur- 
roundings nearest to those of their natural habitats, that the adults as well 
as the larve and young may be kept for observation and study. The 


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 beautiful 
and interesting arrangement, as may be seen by the illustration at the end 
of this volume. The upper part is arranged to set upon the lower 
aquarium, and of this latter the two sides and a part of the back are built 
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