The Aquarium 



Volume I 



MAY, 1912 



Number 1 



BALL FISH OR FROG 



I//ii!trtttion ('.ofyrii;ht. 



The Ball Fish or Frog Fish 



Tetrodon cutcutiK 



Walter Lannoy Brind 

 New York 



This truly remarkable fish was first in- 

 troduced into this country by me in the 

 autunni of 1911, when a i)air were shipjjed 

 from Germany by a fishculturist wlu) had 

 bred them from jjarent fish which he had 

 imported from India. My })air bred in 

 the summer of 1.011, in Oermany, before 

 being sliipped to me, and bred twice after 

 I received them in Chicago, where I for- 

 merly resided. Unfortunately my ball fish 

 ate their eggs and the male eventually 



FISH — {Tetrodon cutcnlia) 



1013. by H.L. Brind 



killed the female, so that I will have to 

 import another ])air and try again this 

 coming sunnner. This fish is of a voracious 

 nature, and must only be kept with his 

 mate at ,'utual spawning time. Thereafter 

 the finiale nuist be at once removed. In 

 India this fish is found in salt or brackish 

 water, but lives and breeds happily in 

 fresh water if kept at a uniform sunmicr 

 temixrature — (75 to 80 degrees Fahren- 

 heit). My wash-drawing shows exactly 

 what the ball fish looks like. My pair 

 were about two inches long and were one 

 year old. There are no scales whatever on 

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