AMERICAN NATURE SERIES 



THE FRESHWATER AQUARIUM 

 AND ITS INHABITANTS 



A Guide for the Amateur Aquarist. By OTTO EGGELING and 

 FREDERICK EHRENBERG. 



With 100 illustrations from photographs, large 12mo, 352 pp. 

 $2.00 net; by mail, $2.19. 



A freshwater aquarium is far easier to maintain than either 

 birds, plants, or domestic animals. It opens to easy observation 

 a world of interesting plants and the locomotion, manner of feed- 

 ing, of escaping from enemies of play, battle, and courtship of a 

 multitude of creatures whose ways of life are entirely different 

 from those of terrestrial organisms. 



This volume gives clear and complete instructions to the ama- 

 teur. It describes and illustrates by some of the finest photographs 

 ever taken from life, the great variety of plants, fishes, turtles, 

 frogs, and insects that may be kept indoors in health and content- 

 ment. It furnishes information concerning food, treatment in 

 health and sickness, methods of capture and handling, and what 

 aquatic creatures will or will not live in peace together. 



CONTENTS 



I. The Aquarium. 



II. Aquarium Plants. 



III. The Inhabitants of the Aquarium. 



IV. The Feeding of the Inmates of the Aquarium. 

 V. Fish-hatching in the Aquarium. 



VI. Fish Maladies. 

 VII. Implements for the Care and Keeping of the Aquarium. 



"The best guide to the aquarium." The Independent. 



HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 



Publishers New York 



