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FISHES FOR MARINE AQUARIA. 



the best food for the aquarium wrasses is the common 

 shore crab (Carcinus mcznas], the ballan wrasse being 

 so fond of it that specimens dropped into their tank 



Fig. 127. 



Blue and Red Cuckoo Wrasse (Labrus mixtus), male and female. 



are torn into pieces before reaching the bottom ; but 

 Mr. Lloyd states that shrimps are their most favourite 

 food. The colours and markings of the male and 

 female wrasses generally differ from each other, and it 



