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A monthly magazine devoted to the study, 

 care and breeding of native, tropical, gold 

 and fancy fishes, other animals and plants 

 in the household aquarium. 



W. A. POYSER Editor 



JOSEPH E. BAUSMAN Publisher 



542 E. Girard Avenue, Philadelphia. 



Entered as second-class matter. September 

 2, 1915, at the Post Office, Philadelphia, Pa., 

 under Act of March 3, 1879. 



Yearly Subscription $1.00 



Foreign Subscriptions 1-35 



Single Copy 10 cents 



Payments may be made by express money 

 order, draft, post office order or registered 

 letter. Foreign remittances should be by 

 international money order. 

 Advertising rates made known on application. 



"Aquatic Life" is the only magazine in 

 America devoted exclusively to aquatic life, 

 and its value as an advertising medium in 

 this field of nature study is unequaled. 



Copyright 1917 by Joseph E. Bailsman 



Vol. II 



March, 1917 



No. 7 



the mound thus formed I spread a piece 

 of poultry wire netting, pinning it down 

 with large stones. It was my intention 

 to leave it thus for about two weeks, but 

 on the eighth day it rained, and the pond 

 filled to a depth of eighteen inches. 



The first sign of life appeared twelve 

 to fifteen days later, and within four 

 weeks I had, to my great satisfaction, an 

 abundance of the much-to-be-desired 

 Daphne. I had plenty of them during the 

 entire season, not only for my large stock 

 of growing fish, but also for my many 

 customers. 



The regular meeting of the Philadel- 

 phia Goldfish Fanciers' Society was held 

 in Saull's Hall, 802 Girard avenue, on 

 February 21st. 



Ribbon-tail Japs and telescopes were 

 shown in competition. The following 

 decisions were given by the judges, 



Messrs. Elmer C. Hazlett, Charles Hin- 

 kle and James Fleming : 



Scaleless Japs — Blue and red ribbons, 

 Gustav Armbruster; yellow, Francis X. 

 Garcia. 



Scaled Japs — Blue, William Hartman ; 

 red, Albert P. Miller ; yellow, Joseph E. 

 Tyler. 



Scaleless Telescopes — Blue, William 

 Raroha; red, Dr. F. C. Leffman ; yellow, 

 Joseph E. Tyler. 



Scaled Telescopes — Blue, Howard E. 

 Demuth ; red, Gustav Armbruster. 



Nezv members elected — John Kersh- 

 ner, William Himmershitz and F. Cas- 

 sedy, Jr. 



The next meeting will be held March 

 2 1 st. Competition for telescopes bred in 

 1916. The "Board of Directors cup" and 

 six ribbons to be awarded. 



Fred Richardson, Secretary. 



A few of us here are much interested 

 in the aquarium, and think we have some 

 fine stock — mostly purchased from fan- 

 ciers who advertise in "Aquatic Life." 

 Every one admires my office aquarium 

 and comments upon the fishes, which 

 most people here had never seen before. 

 —Russell T. Neville. 



I have had a very successful season 

 breeding goldfish, paradise fish, and six 

 species of exotic fishes, having started to 

 collect my fishes and build the equip- 

 ment a year ago. Flelps and hints taken 

 from Aquatic Life from month to 

 month in the greatest measure were re- 

 sponsible for my success. — Carl Braun. 

 Jr. 



The Union of South Africa, China and 

 Australia have recently been added to the 

 constantly growing list of foreign coun- 

 tries in which Aquatic Life finds read- 

 ers. 



