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Des Plaines Fish Farm 



867 N. Dearborn Street Chicago, Illinois 



(Hatchery at Des Plaines, 111.) 



Importers and Breeders of Gold and Tropical Fishes. Orders should be placed 

 now for the following fishes to be shipped after May 15th, when weather con- 

 ditions will permit safe transportation: 



Fundulus chrysotus per pair, $2.00 



" " (mottled — very rare) " " 4.00 



Fundulus goodei " " 2.00 



Cyprinodon variegatus " " 2.00 



Oryzias latipes (Medaka) " " .50 



Heterandria formosa " " .50 



Xiphophorus helleri (young) " " 1.00 



Macropodus viridi-auratus (young) " " 1.00 



Gambusia holbrooki " " .75 



Jordanella floridae " " 2 00 



Platyposcilus pulchra per pair, $1.00 to 2.00 



For Goldfish 



NATURE'S FISHFOOD 



For Tropical Fishes 



For Native Fish 



A good food is absolutely necessary if one would keep his fishes in good con- 

 dition. Nature's Fish Food is the result of years of study and experiment. If 

 your dealer does not have it we will gladly send you a sample package for 20 



cents. 



Orders for fishes amounting to less than $5.00 cannot be filled, 

 cans cost 35 to 50 cents extra. 



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aquatic Life 



1918—1919-1920 



October. Aquarium Heating {Breder) ; 

 Hemiramphus fluviatilis {Br hid) ; Mollienisia 

 latipinna {Heede) ; Blue-tailed Skink {Deck- 

 er t) ; Factors Controlling the Development of 

 Tropical Aquarium Fishes {Webber) ; Snails 

 in Aquaria {Gale) ; Habits of Black Bass, The 

 Pipe-fish, notes, etc. 



November. American Live-bearing Tooth- 

 carps {Bade) ; Aquarium Notes (Leitholf) ; 

 Notes on Krefftius adspersus {Freund) ; The 

 Anatomy of the Fish {Clark) ; Breeding Habits 

 of Burmese Eel {Finckh) ; A Bloated Axolotl 

 (IVaite) ; The Name "Water Flea," notes and 

 news. 



December. Cynolebias bellottii (Brind) ; 

 Tillaea recurva and Other Notes {Finckh) ; 

 Another Tank Heater {Knhn) ; Aquarist vs. 

 Aquarian {Mellen) ; Emotions of Fishes 

 (Gale); A Cigar Box Aquarium (Modesto) ; 

 Florida Notes {Carlton) ; Photosynthesis, Mis- 

 cellaneous notes, news, etc. 



January, 1919. Limia caudofasciata {Leit- 

 holf) ; Classification of Fishes {Stead) ; Color 

 Changes of the Chub-sucker (Hubbs) ; Neetro- 

 plus car pint is (Brind) ; A Simple Heated 

 Aquarium {Finckh) ; Notes on the Breeding 

 Habits of the Pigmy Sunfish {Poyser) ; Gold- 

 fish Farm of Kichigoro Akiyama, notes and 

 news. 



February. Polycentropsis abbreviata(5ri«d) ; 

 Chologaster cornutus, the Fish of the Dismal 

 Swamp {Welsh); A Wood Aquarium {Pil- 

 kington) ; Danio malabaricus {Leitholf) ; 

 Notes on Native Fishes {Pray) ; Managing 

 the Aquarium {Innes) ; Reactions of Fishes to 

 Habit-forming Drugs, The Boston Show, A 

 True Fish Story, notes and news. 



March. Breeding the Goldfish {Hanna) ; 

 Observations on the Chelonians of North 

 America, Part I (Shufeldt) ; Lucania ommata 

 {Welsh) ; Apistogramma agassizi {Heede) ; 

 The Water-fleas {Tompki)is) ; Viviparous 

 Fishes-in-general (Stead) ; Breeding the 

 Striped Gourami {Simpson) ; Notes and news. 



April,. The Surinam Toad {Deckert) ; 

 Cichlasoma nigrofasciatum {Bri)id) ; Keeping 

 Living Food Alive (Innes) ; Beware the 

 Dragonfly {Gordon) ; An Electrolytic Aerator 

 (Putnam) ; Water Lilies, Some Cultural and 

 Historical Notes (Pring) ; Beef vs. Liver, notes 

 and news. 



May. Nanostomus eques (Brind) ; The 

 Water Horse-tail (Jl'oblcr) ; Observations on 

 the Chelonians of North America. Part IT. 

 (Shufeldt) ; I Became a Fancier (Proctor) ; 

 A Peculiar Planorbis (Breder) ; Association 

 and Color Discrimination in Mudminnows and 

 Sticklebacks {White) ; The Hay Infusion 

 Microcosm (Woodruff) ; The Bladderworts. 

 notes and news. 



