

534 



Observations on keeping Salt-ivater Fish ali 



[No. 5, 



recorded, prove that it is not accidental, but due to some cause operating 

 generally in their formation, 



I bring these remarks forward, in the hope that further observations 

 may be elicited from some of our members or others, on the pheno- 

 mena of the storm, as well as to draw attention to the importance 

 and interest of this branch of meteorology, in case future storms may 

 afford opportunities of detailed observation. 



Observations on keeping Salt-water Fish alive for a considerable time. — > 

 By Lt.-Col. E. C. TytlePv. 



[Received 2Sth Feb., 1864.] [Read 6th April, 1864] 



In offering the following observations for publication, I should here 

 remark that they are entirely the result of a great many experiments, 

 made during several months of my stay at Port Blair, and which I am 

 happy to say have been completely successful. 



1. If fresh water from the sea be put into a vessel and changed 

 >every twelve hours, sea fish will live in it. 



2. It requires a quart beer bottle full of sea water, to keep a fish 

 the size of a minnow alive for twelve hours. 



3. After twelve hours, the water begins to be offensive, (from the 

 escape of Sulphurretted Hydrogen ;) the fish comes to the surface, swims 

 in circles impatiently, and dies before twenty-four hours : the water 

 about this time becomes most offensive. 



4. If salt water be put into an iron vessel and boiled over a brisk 

 fire till nothing but the dry salts remain, it will be found that a tea 

 spoonful and a half of this salt, added to a quart beer bottle of fresh 

 tank water, will keep alive a fish the size of a small minnow, for a con- 

 siderable length of time, without any change of water being required for 

 months : this simple fact took me months and months to arrive at, and 

 it now affords me the greatest pleasure to make the result of my suc- 

 cessful experiments known. 



5. No food should be given to the fish, beyond a fly or smashed 

 cockroach now and then. 



6. Freshly caught fish should be kept in a vessel at least twenty-four 

 hours by themselves, before being placed with those already in the 

 acjuariuni. 



