250 Fresh Water Aquarium 



ians as live in the water permanently, or 

 nearly so, and which can be kept without 

 more trouble than the providing for them 

 of a float or dry place, where they may rest 

 whenever they feel the desire to leave the 

 wet element. The so-called terra-aquarium 

 is best adapted for the keeping of fishes, 

 reptiles and amphibians in one and the same 

 vessel, or for reptiles and amphibians, with- 

 out the fishes. Here the amateur may have 

 the satisfaction of seeing them mate and 

 multiply, and of observing the highly inter- 

 esting metamorphosis from egg to larva and 

 then to the last and perfect form. 



SALAMANDERS. 



The Water Newt, Eft, Spotted Triton (Di- 

 emyctylus viridescens) , is the most common 

 and best known of the amphibians adapted 

 for the aquarium. The color above is olive 

 brown, darker on the male, and of a lighter 

 shade on the female. Both sexes are lemon 

 yellow below, closely dotted with black. The 



