CONTENTS. XI 



CHAPTER VIII. 



GENERAL MANAGEMENT OK TIIK FRESH-WATER AQUARIUM. 



The Tank to be well Seasoned— Feeding Fish— Bread to he given to Gold-fish— 

 Taming Fish— Care to ba taken not to introduce too much Food— Cheese for 

 Hah— Accumulation of Conferva*— Removal with a Sponge— Emptying the Tank— 



Grouping— 8nn-flah a Peaceful Inhabitant— Sun-fish nibbling Minnows' Tails — Thc- 

 Tailless Minnow — Varieties of Snails— Fish coming to the Surface to breathe a 

 Had Siirn— Aerating the Water — Definition of an Aquarium — Temperature of the 

 Water— Shading the Tank from the Sun — Air blowing on the Surface of the 

 Water advantageous — Dead and Sick Animals to be removed — Disease's of Fish, So 



CHAPTER IX. 



THE MARINE AQUARIUM. 



Marine and Fresh-water Tanks contrasted — Advantage of Flat-sided Vessels for 

 Marine Aquaria — Hock-pools— Bottom of the Tank— Shell bottom — Kockwork to 

 project above the Surface of the Water for the Fiddler Crabs — Introduction of 

 Vegetation — Water— Washing Plants — Procuring Sea Water — Cask for holding it 

 —Artificial Sea Water — Its Manufacture— Seasoning the Water, . . .93 



CHAPTER X. 



PLANTS FOR THE MARINE TANK. 



Difference between Marine and Fresh-water Vegetation— Green Alga; best for the 

 Aquarium— Danger of using olive-colored Alga; — L'lva latissima — Monster Fronds 

 — Action of Sun on the L'lva — Ulva lactuca — L'lva linza — Plants on Snail's 

 hacks — Knteromorpha compressa — The Ocean Grove — E. intestinalis — Hryopsis 

 plumosa — Cladophora arcta — C. rupestris — Diatomacea: — Four Plants growing one 

 on another — Codium tomentosum — Porphyra laciniata — Grinnella Americana — 

 Ptilota clegans — Chondrus crispus — Padina povonia — Desmarestia, etc., . 101 



CHAPTER xr. 



FISH FOR THE MARINE AQUARIUM. 



Some Fish will live in either Fresh or Salt Water — Fish require Heal Sea Water or 

 Artificial Sea Water that has been well seasoned — Anemones may be introduced 

 into Fresh Artificial Sea Water — Advantage of Fish in an Aquarium— The Min- 

 now or Killi-fish— " Minny " a tame Fish — Singular effect of Fright on the 

 Minnow — Big Killie— Common and Spotted Bergall— Sand Smelt— Sticklebacks — 

 Variegated Goby — Sea-weed Hlenny — Fringed Hlenny — Eels — Striped Mullet — Sea- 

 Scorpions— Pipefishes and their curious Habits — Suckers — Six-banded Chasniodes— 

 Saud Launce— Sea Horse, 110 



CHAPTER XII. 



CRUSTACEA ANT) MOU.USCA FOR THE MARINE AQUARIUM. 

 The Scavengers of the Marine Aquarium — Aiding them in their Labors— Hermit 



