CHAPTER VIII. 



THE SALT-WATER, OR MARINE AQUARIUM. 



FITTING IT UP APPROPRIATELY, 



AYING completely instructed the reader (if be 

 or she have paid sufficient attention to our re, 

 marks), in the part of forming, fitting up and 

 stocking with plants, animals, etc., a Fresh-water Aqua- 

 rium, we now propose to go as minutely into the details 

 of the construction and management of a Salt-water, or 

 Marine Aquarium. 



All that we have said in chapters two, three, and four, 

 applies to an Aquarium of any character. 



The Marine Aquarium differs from its fresh-water rela- 

 tive, of course, in the ''fitting up.'' The rockwork placed 

 in it is designed to illustrate the aquatic landscape pre- 

 sumed to exist, not in a river, but in '' the great deep," 

 and in exercising his taste the amateur should be scrupu- 

 lous to introduce nothing which will not harmonize with 

 this prevailing idea. Coral will prove, on this occasion, 

 an appropriate ornament to the tank, although in the 

 fresh-water tank it v/ould have been so much out of place. 



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