THE CARE OF HOME AQUARIA 



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COMMON SALT-WATER SHRIMP. 



Tlie\' live well in the small aquarium, but not in 

 such great numbers. 



and climb with ease among the vegetation. The eggs of the newt 

 are laid singly among water plants. 



Young turtles are interesting, but the most of them are 

 better adapted to moist terraria than to the ordinary aquarium 

 as they need to have some way of climbing out of the water. The 

 soft-shelled or fresh-water leather turtle is more aquatic than 

 other species and does not climb out often, but must have loose 

 sand in which it occasionally buries itself. 



Young alligators are frequently brought from Florida, but 

 it should be made a punishable offense to do so, for sooner or 

 later they die unless special care is taken to provide them with 

 heat and sunlight. The New York Aquarium is the recipient 

 annually of many of these little fellows, usually in an emaciated 

 condition because they have not fed well, and many of them do 

 not recover, even under the care of an expert aquarist. They 



