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7 Betta rubra C.

There seems

to be considerable

doubt

as to the status of the red fighting fish,

Betta rubra, as a valid species.

Aquarists

who have compared

authentic

it

with

specimens of Betta splcndens consider

it

more than a color variety. Even Betta splendens was at one time confused with B. pugnax and again with B. little

J.

HEEDE

Riccia and

may

Duckweed, are

present, they

be used to give strength to the struc-

ture.

The eggs

are extruded just under

the nest, the female being assisted by the

male, who winds his body about her. head nearly touching tail, with a gentle pressure.

The eggs

charged, and

fall to

are fertilized as disthe bottom, but are

trifasciata.

Few

fishes present greater contrast be-

tween normal coloration and that assumed during breeding periods. Throughout the cooler parts of the year both sexes

But when the tem-

are dingy brown.

perature

is

raised artificially, or

approaches, sexual activity

is

summer

aroused and

the male dons gorgeous colors to dazzle his prospective mate.

comes a

His body then be-

rich reddish-brown, passing to a

velvety black with a greenish-blue cast, the

dark

lengthwise

more pronounced.

The

stripes

becoming

dorsal

fin is blue,

with dark spots, while the rays of the caudal and anal fins are blood-red, with the

membrane

greenish-blue.

The

The breed

red fighting fish if

is

Betta rubra

fe-

male remains a rather plain brown, with perhaps a touch of red. not difficult to

maintained under the proper

immediately recovered by the male and carried in his mouth, to be placed in the nest.

The eggs develop

rapidly and. at a high

and lends itself well to obIf an adequate minimum deservation. gree of warmth has been provided, breeding will commence when the temperature rises to 80 or above. Then the male

actually forcing the youngsters

engages

the

conditions,

in the construction of the float-

ing nest of bubbles, rising to the surface

and discharging it in the selected in bubbles formed with the mucus secreted in its mouth. If tiny for air

location

floating

or filamentous plants,

such as

temperature, the fry hours.

The

nest

is

may appear

in

20

carefully guarded and

kept in repair by the male alone, the additional bubbles

added from time

to time

up

into

foam and above the water surface, which insures them the maximum of air with the required moisture.

Within a few days the yolk-sac is absorbed, and the fry are free-swimming, and will endeavor to leave the nest.

At

this time, in

aqua-

^aquatic EiCe

rium breeding, the male should be removed, leaving the young to forage alone.

The young of labyrinth fishes are very minute at the outset, needing a plentiful

brought to the attention of the Biological

supply of Infusoria. Unless the breeding

Because of the deadlock between the employing printers, supported by the pub-

tank

good

of

is

size, its

normal infusorian

will speedily be exhausted, so pro-

fauna

must be made to furnish this food by adding water from another tank set aside without fishes to permit this minute vision

In addition to Infusoria,

develop.

life to

food as

artificial

fine as flour, the inside

mealworms and

of

the yolk of hard-boiled

eggs, squezed sparingly into the water,

may

be

When

tried.

been passed they

the larval stage has

may

be given rotifers

and the tiniest Daphne, to be followed by large Daphne, enchytraeid worms and scraped raw beef.

later

Lucania ommata

who

writes the editor

as follows

"When May,

was

1

1919,

I

in

southern Georgia, in

\isited a large artificial lake

near Milltown that had been formed by the

of a swamp about 75 years This swanip was one of the head

damming

ago.

waters of the Suwanee River.

The

which

is

generally

known

as Banks' Mill Pond.

seven miles long,

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lishers, and the printers in New York, more than 200 periodicals, including magazines and trade journals, have suspended

publication until the labor troubles can

For the same

be straightened out.

been

delayed.

is

It

lake,

rea-

many books has

son the publication of

Among

the

periodicals

that have ceased publication temporarily

are Collier's, the Cosmopolitan, Harper's

Home

Bazaar,

and Garden, McCall's. the

Metropolitan, the Pictorial Review, Van-

Today's Housewife, the WomWorld, the Christian Herald, Good Housekeeping, Hearst's Magazine, the Independent, McClure's Magazine, the

ity Fair,

an's

Outlook, the Theatre, the People's

Lncania ouunata, which was described and illustrated by Mr. W. W. Welsh in Aquatic Life for March, 1919, had up to that time been reported only from Florida. Two months later its range was considerably extended when it was discovered in Southern Georgia by Dr. Hugh M. Smith, United States Commissioner of Fisheries,

Society of Washington at a meeting held last spring."

Home

Journal, Vogue, the Delineator, Every-

Home

body's Magazine, the

and

Designer,

issued by the

Trade papers

pany.

Sector, the

many publications Frank A. Munsey Comthe

to

the

number of The

119 have also suspended publication. leading

New York

book publishers have

decided to stand with the periodical publishers

in

trouble

is

the fight.

One

result of the

lishers will

some of the periodical pubremove from New York to

other

The November

that

cities.

issue of

Mc-

and announcement has been made that the Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping and Hearst's Magazine will hereafter be iml)The Writer. lished in Chicago.

Clure's

is

being printed

in Cincinnati,

the

contains

growth of all kinds of vegetation and teems witli animal life.

1 found Lucania omniala to be (juite common, and a rank

The way

to kill competition

is

to create

something too good for competition to imitate.

dipped a number of .s]^ecimens while passing

among

the

lilies

in a canoe, the fish

being under the leaves of the lilies. The extension of the range of Lucania was

striking for more pay, wages of sin still plug along under the same old schedule.

With everybody

the

Obser^)ations on the CKelonians

of DR.

Young

Some

of the

Wood

R.

Morth America. VI. W. 5HUFELDT,

Tortoise

time during the early part of

the great chelonian collection of that institution,

Mr. Edward S. Schmid, received a consignment of a large number of very young pond turtles of several species, all of which had been taken by collectors in the District of Co-

parison,

aquariculturist,

lumbia.

Among

mens occurred

these interesting speci-

one, the like of

which he

had never seen before of all the thousands of young turtles he has possessed neither was it known to me, in his time for I had never seen one like it, either ;

in life or literature.

With

his usual gen-

Mr. Schmid duly presented me with this curious little chelonian, and it is now in my possession, alive, and in A few hours after excellent condition. receiving it, I handed it to Dr. Leonard erosity,

Stejneger, Chief Curator of the U.

National

Museum,

for identification.

found that it had never been figured any work known to him, and, turning

5.

Chelopus insculptus

October, 19 19. the well-known Washington

C. M. Z.

S.

He

Tortoise

was found to be, upon comvery young of the Wood (Chelopus insculptus), which

it

the

Doctor Stejneger surmised before any comparisons were made. It was found that the National Museum possessed but

young specimens of this species, and the smallest one of them was fully three

my specimen, and marked.

Later on I made photographs of it, natural size, while it was under water in a shallow, white-lined pan, and these give it from above and below. It is shown here in Figure i, while the figures of the young of our common Snapping Turtle (C. serthree times the size of quite

difiterently

pentina)

are presented in Figure 2 for

comparison.

graphed from placed at

my

These latter I also photolife from specimens kindly disposal by Mr. Schmid

in

the upper and lower views are of different

to

individuals.

^aquatic

^^-^.j

Mtt

jdquatU

Coming back which

tle,

our young-

to

Wood

Tur-

strictly aquatic in its habits

is

in contradistinction to the adults of this

species,

it

specimen

to be noted, in the

is

here being considered, that the upper surface of the carapace, the head, limbs tail,

are

somewhat

of a

all

and

palish earth

brown, and present no markings of any

The

kind. is

extremely

and

fine

delicate,

being smooth, somewhat darker

and the

and tail the head

scalation of the legs

in color,

irides of the eyes a rich

brown

Beneath, the plastron presents a ground color of a pinkish shade, sometimes re-

ferred to as flesh color

;

a large area, cen-

trally carried

almost to the periphery,

of a blackish

brown

medio-longitudinal

is

is

;

part,

snapping turtles, here shown upon three views in Figure 2. The marked length of the tail in the two is largely responsible for this, and the general circularity of form.

In the young snapper, however, the posterior margin

domed

at

all,

nally, a low,

it

met on Tuesday, September i ith, in Hosking's rooms, Norwood. The president, Mr. Edgar R. Waite, was in

distal or

and, while scarcely

forms, medio-longitudi-

broad and rounded elevation,

hardly entitled to the

name

of crest.

The

margin scutes are nearly square in outOmitting the line, and very conspicuous. nuchal and pygal ones, they number ten upon either side, the nuchal scute being very small.

The head may be withdrawn

well

and the strikingly long tail, when curved around to one side, its tip comes slightly beyond the base of the fore limb opposite. The animal seems to have no choice as to which side it brings its tail against the shell while in swimming, this appendage projects backwards in the median line, with a length of a litwithin the

shell,

;

over three centimeters, the length of

the carapace being about three and a half centimeters.

This

little

turtle

South Australian Society The South Australian Aquarium So-

form neither a process nor a notch.

In form the carapace above is of a ;

tortoise.

situ-

cutes, while the gular ones, anter-

subcircular outline

pronounced notches, a feature entirely absent in the carapace of the young wood

This plastron

centrally

of a whitish shade.

iorly,

tle

common

while a restricted,

notch being formed by the two i

;

is

of a sub-elliptical outline, a conspicuous

anal

on land, and is an excellent swimmer.

Except in the matter of general outline, it bears no resemblance at all to the young of any of our ordinary pond turtles while upon the other hand, it reminds one very much of the young of our

of the shell presents a series of strongly

color.

ated,

mtt

walks very well indeed

ciety

Mr.

the chair.

Mr. Herbert M. Hale delivered an adby lantern slides, on the photography of aquatic life. The first dress, illustrated

of

series

slides

dealt

with the various

methods of obtaining such photographs.

Illustrations of the apparatus used by Messrs. Williamson, well-known in conwith undersea cinematography, were given. The aquarist may install an arrangement similar in principle. A concrete pond with a window let in the side has an underground observation chamber. The fishes are photographed through the window, and as the observation chamnection

ber

is

kept quite dark, the operator

visible to the fishes,

as a mirror to them.

the

window

is

in-

acting

Inhabitants of the

pond are lighted from above as in nature, and, being under natural conditions, are likely to retain characteristic attitudes.

In an aquarium, or when removed from the water, many fishes appear silvery, and one wonders how they escape detection by enemies.

This appearance

aquatic Hilt is

due solely to reflected

a

fish

is

light,

and

such

if

placed upon some black bars,

these are reflected on the sides of the a condition admirably illustrated.

pond or

some of the minute inhabitants of our ponds and streams.

fish,

In a

Fundulus

nottii

river the surroundings are simi-

larly reflected

and the

fish is

measure of protection. The back, which is exposed to light from above, is almost invariably dark-colored.

Excellent pictures of fishes tained by using a

narrow

The star-headed minnow, Fundulus

afforded a

may

be ob-

glass aquarium.

nottii, is

particularly attractive

little killi-

some reason or other has not Did attained the popularity it deserves. it come from India, or some other far-off land, it would no doubt be highly valued and bred with the same zeal as the species of Haplochilus, which it resembles in habits and spawning.

But though "a beautiful and strikingly colored little fish" (Jordan and Evermann), we pass fish that for

it

by because Nott's

it

a native species.

is

Fundulus does not appear

to

aquarium, but

its

have been bred

in the

spawning habits are indicated by the

fact

that several times aquarists have secured

from eggs attached to water hyacinths and other aquatic plants shipped from In one instance it appeared the South. from hyacinths that had been merely raked from the water, dumped into a It is quite hardy in barrel and shipped. it

aquarium,

the

fishes, finds

to

its

and.

unlike

the

exotic

ordinary house temperature

liking during the winter.

The body stripes

is

silvery,

with six black

running from head to

tail,

to thirteen fainter vertical bars.

and ten These

A broad black bar covand extends down over the cheek lower jaw and upper part of gillcover red breast and lower part of gillvary

in intensity.

ers the eye ;

**Maw, oh, (Donahey

The in

maw! Can we come in

in|?"

;

Cleveland Plain Dealer).

subject cannot then vary

its

position

regard to the camera, and consequently

remains

Other methods of photographing marine life in rock pools were demonstrated, and the use of various tanks, cells and lenses for smaller aquatic animals

in focus.

was explained.

then exhibited a series of gra])hs,

including

The lecturer his own photo-

photomicrographs

(Named

cover reddish yellow.

of

Nott,

its

Thomas Edison

says

prove machinery than

Nature simply lets self.

for Dr.

discoverer.)

seldom

its

makes raw

furnishes the

easier to im-

to imj^rove

a

fool

men.

;

she

material, anci

the fellow finish the job to suit hini-

Josh Billings.

Beef Heart and Beef Liver

Young

for

FisKes

Observation Breeding and Rearing Tanks Used by Albert Gale, Esq. \

/

In connection with the short article on the result of feeding beef liver and heart to

young

United March, of the method

trout, published in the

Fisheries

States

Bulletin

1919, the following details

of preparation and feeding

who may

those

for other fish. this

that

given for

be interested in using

it

not used

food for goldfish, but has no doubt it

would make excellent food for it

expensive

foods

found

various

oats,

is

The Bureau has

them, although

tions

for

in

is

for

believed

such

fish

that

less

can be

commercial preparacream of wheat and rolled

and in mush, etc.

If the fish to

which

it is

desired to feed

the heart and liver are very young it is necessary to remove all gristle or connective tissue and pass the meat through a food chopper seven or eight times, using the plate with the finest perforations.

It

then mixed with a sufficient amount of water to reduce it to such consistency as is

will

permit

its

being spread evenly on the

surface of the water.

The use of an eggbeater has been found advantageous in removing from the feed at this stage any remaining portions of the connective sue,

the

stringy

portions

becoming

tis-

at-

tached to the movable parts of the eggbeater as they are revolved in the mixIn the first feeding stages a feather ture.

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used for spreading the food, but as the fish develop and take food more readily,

In feeding beef liver prepared as de-

is

it

As

can be spread with a spoon.

the

scribed,

introduction into the water

its

produces a milky discoloration, sometimes

meat may be reduced to suitable size for feeding by passing it through the meat chopper only once or twice, or by using a plate with coarser

known

perforations.

come by "washing" the liver before feed-

fish increase in size the

Beef heart than

liver,

is

more

prepare

difficult to

for the reason that

it

has a

somewhat greater amount of connective tissue or gristle, and where only young fish are

on hand,

this

is

a waste

;

if

older

being held, the portions unsuitable for feeding the young fish can be used advantageously for fingerlings or fish are

is

Under

this

designation meat

is

shipped

and so from the

frozen,

received; this to distinguish

may

This objectionable feature

be over-

done by adding a considerable amount of water to the prepared food and then pouring the milky water This

ing.

is

from the surface of the mixture, or it be removed by the use of a short piece of rubber tubing used in the manner

may

of a syphon.

Experiments conducted washed liver would indicate

it

meat that has been frozen, but from which the frost

formation

with

this

extracted before shipping.

It

is

fed

sold

under the trade name

cheaper than either Ijeef heart or beef liver, has also been found more or less satisfactory food for

of "spleen," which

is

from a reader of Aquatic

Heterandria formosa the

pigmy

formosa

ranks

With Lucania ouimata and Heterandria

sunfishes,

among

raw.

that

Published by permission.

Life.

so-called "fresh" meat, or

The gland

no circulation.

Fisheries^ in response to a request for in-

Bureau of Fish-

from the packing house

is

is

is

the

experiments at Wytheville

known

aquariums, where there

to the trade as ''frozen."

The meat used by what

"smoke." This

less objectionable, especially in

some of its nutritive value is lost by the washing process.

Prepared by the Bureau of

adults.

eries in its

is

to fish-culturists as

more or

the least of fishes in point of size,

but this

is

an advantage

the aquarist, for the itself readily to

breeding

in a

in the eyes of

little

fellow^

adapts

the smallest of tanks, even

quart

jar.

name

young fish. It is prepared in the same manner as the other meats, but unless

comely, and Professor Agassiz did not

fingerlings or adult fishes are being fed,

unwisely choose the name.

there will be a considerable

waste, as the percentage of

amount of gristle men-

tioned previously in this paper

than is

in either

userl

heart or liver.

is

greater

This food

by the Bureau principally at

its

Pacific Coast stations for various species

of .salmon which are pro])agated in that section.

This method of feeding

fish in acjuaria

The

specific

what straw-brown

formosa

in color,

It is

means some-

with a dark

some vertical dark stripe, and a black spot on anal and

lengthwise streaks

dorsal It

fins.

breeds readily

in

small aquaria, bear-

few young in a litter, however, which would be expected from its small size.

No particular provision need be ing a

made

for breeding other than to place the

tank with several

necessitates frequent change of water, as

female alone

the particles of meat arc too fine to be

bunches of Myriophyllum and Anacharis, removing her when the young have been

removed from the ac|uarium except by drawing off the water.

expelled-

in a small

Notes on Mosquito

LarA)ae

HERBERT M. HALE South Australian

Museum

1. The Larval Mosquito.

2. Head of Larva. Showing Tracheae, etc.

3.

Breathing Tube and Tracheal Gills of Larva. 4. Pupae Floating Below SurTermination of Abdomen of Pupa, Showing the Paddles. face Film.

5.

Photomicrographs by the Author.

Mosquitoes occur nearly world, though they

be

recognized as

may

all

over the

not everywhere

Aquarists

such.

are

familiar with the tiny aquatic larva of

the insect,

perhaps better known as the

"mosquito wriggler." This name is accounted for by the peculiar method of swimming. The larva appears to "wriggle" through the w^ater, progression being accomplished by quick sideways movements of the body. As a fish food it is almost unrivaled, being appreciated by nearly all fishes youngsters thrive and grow rapidly when liberally fed with ;

small larvae.

mous.

An

The number instance

is

eaten

is

recorded

enorof

a

female Gamhusia affinis which, although regularly fed on other foods, consumed

about 140 large wrigglers within an hour

and a half. In the Hawaiian where mosquitoes are prevalent, has

been

materially sects, if

successfully

reduced the

Islands, this fish

acclimated,

and

The

pest.

in-

unchecked, increase very rapidly

and require only

a

month

in

which

to

complete their metamorphoses, being then ready to bring forth a

The

aquarist

stalling a

may

new

generation.

insure a supply by in-

tub in a quiet corner of the

garden water containing straw or any decaying matter will furnish suitable breeding- conditions. Before long- numer;

jaquatic JLitt

10

ous tiny, boat-like masses appear on the surface of the water, each mass consisting of 200 to 400 eggs. These soon hatch,

and as the larvae breathe they

may

at the surface,

be collected with a small net,

one "scoop" of which often yields the equivalent of an egg-cup full of wrig-

Some

glers.

singly; others lay in

water

deposit their eggs

species

damp

will later collect

main dry for some

places, where and the eggi re-

When

air passages.

thus

is

is

into the

closed the tube

and

sharp and pointed,

way

its

is

easily

pushed through the surface film, which would otherwise offer considerable re-

Once the

sistance to so tiny a creature. film

pierced, the flaps open out in the

is

form of a cup, which the

larva

and enables head

floats

remain

to

suspended

downward.

time.

larvae of different sorts of mos-

The

mechanism by means of which water prevented from finding

quitoes sometimes exhibit considerable The accompanying illustravariation.

from photographs by the author, show a quite common type. Apart from

tions,

In a certain group some members of

convey

which

malaria,

has

larva

the

respiratory openings, but no external breathing tube, and clings to the surface

capacity as a fish food, this wriggler

by means of broad hairs.

Air is conveyed to the various parts

well worth careful examination. It is protected with numerous tufts of hair,

through numerous tracheae, or air pipes, which ramify through the body in all

and some of the hairs are branched or

directions;

its is

feathered.

Unlike the condition

the

in

film

some of these tracheae may be

seen in the photo-micrograph of the head.

two brown eyes are of simple There are two crescentconstruction. shaped brushes of hair round the mouth

The shorter and thicker tube is the abdominal segment, and the exterior

ter-

mination

The

in place of the biting mandibles of other

vent

adult, the

If

insects.

larva

the

through a magnifying will

seen

be

Their

a pair of

each

the

thin,

The

form

larval

maintained for a

is

times being longer, owing to cold weather

is

mouth

Predaceous and cannibal larvae

organs.

stronger

hairs

in

feeding

the

or paucity of food. the skin

is

moult the pupal stage insect does not

the prey.

previous state;

Respiration

through

effected

is

a

breathing tube at the posterior end of the

This

body.

in

is

the longer of the caudal

the illustrations, but

it

length in the different species. thority

varies in

One

au-

observed that examples with a

short tube are mostly found

in tem])orary

whilst those with a long one occur

permanent waters. The opened when the insect comes

orifice

in

face to breathe.

or

six

It is

little

is

only

to the sur-

closed at will witli

leaves,

an

iiiLfcnious

During

shed three times

Ijrushes, these then being used to seize

fi\'e

tracheal gills on

finlike

side.

animalcules or particles of vege-

have

jjools,

canal.

fortnight or thereabouts, the time some-

to create a current

table matter are carried to the

tubes

digestive

protected by long hairs, and has

is

whereby

function small

alive

brushes

motion.

rapid

in

viewed

is

glass, these

of

last

ming

is

now

is

at

it is still

this period

at the fourth

;

The

assumed.

resemble

all

active

its

and swim-

accomplished by strong jerks of

the abdomen, at the termination of

which

two paddles are attached. paratus is absent and the organs of

Digestive ap-

piration are greatly changed.

tube

lost in casting the skin,

is

pupa breathes through two situated

When

on

not

in

the

back,

motion

it

res-

The caudal little

near

and the funnels

the

head.

floats at the sur-

face and the o])enings of these funnels

are held just above the water. sect,

The

in-

which, as development proceeds, can

Siquatic

mtt

11

be distinguished just under the transpar-

oil

ent skin, does not remain long- in this con-

Linsed

In a few days the perfect mos-

dition.

quito emerges, ready in turn to propagate its

species.

constituents of the linseed meal.

Some

in

the

upon the fish. (4) Fish affected with linseed-meal poisoning can be brought back to a healthy condiexcept for the pigment change and

blindness, by a diet of

product.

time ago a peculiar disease ap-

(3)

food of trout has a

slightly injurious effect

tion,

Linseed Meal Cause of Disease Among Trout

oil

some fresh-meat

(5) Yearling trout on a diet of

hog lungs gained

in weight three times as during three months as those receiv-

peared at a commercial trout hatchery in

fast

Rhode Island among yearling and twoyear-old trout.

The fish turned black, many because blind, and large numbers

ever, a three times greater gross weight

ing the wheat-meat-meal mixtures

;

how-

Just previous to death an affected

of food was consumed in the former case than in the latter.

fish would dart rapidly about, sometimes jumping entirely out of the water. After

Further experiments were then undertaken at the White Sulphur Springs ( W.

died.

swimming nervously few seconds, the

in

this

way

for a

Va.) hatchery of the Bureau, with the of Superintendent R. K. Robinson, to determine more definitely

co-operation

would usually turn partly on its side, remain quiescent for an instant, and then resume its former unnaturally sluggish swimming.

In most cases the fish would repeat this perform-

afforded clear evidence that the outward

ance

manifestations

several

fish

times

before

finally

suc-

Dr. L. H. Almy, then fish pathologist gation

Bureau, was detailed to an investiof the trouble.

that the disease

It

was learned

had manifested

itself

a

few weeks after the superintendent had begun feeding with a mixture of linseed meal, wheat middlings, and meat scraps, the linseed meal having been substituted for cottonseed meal previously used.

When the meat scrap, with flour and salt, was used without the linseed meal, the disease was definitely checked in both adult fish and fry. Experiments planned by the fish pathologist were then undertaken at the same hatchery to ascertain which, if either, of the two meals had brought on the disease.

The results served to establish the following points

:

i) Of the two vegetable meals, linseed and cottonseed, the linseed meal alone is responsible for causing the pigment change, blindness, and death.

(2) The (

causative agent

of the disease brought by the ingestion of linseed meal viz., pigment change, excitability, and weakened eyesight or blindness are due primarily to the prussic-acid constit-

about

cumbing. in this

the nature of the toxic non-oil constituent of the linseed meal.

These experiments

is

contained in the non-

in trout

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

â&#x20AC;&#x201D;

The experiments

uent of linseed meal.

indicated also that a food mixture consisting of wheat middlings and meatmeal, although not injurious and apparently an acceptable food for the fish, does not

compare with fresh hog lungs for

yearling

trout.

as a food

Fisheries

Sennce

Bulletin.

At the

recent Philadelphia exhibition

of aquarium fishes an urchin

ing in

amazement

stander

to the

who seemed

'em," and

to

was

listen-

remarks of a byknow "all about

was accordingly credited

in the

mind of the youngster with a great and varied collection. The boy wanted some fishes for an unused aquarium at home, but even a ten-cent goldfish was beyond his

little

purse, so finally he engaged the

gentleman

in

conversation and asked

if

mtt

SiquatU

12

he didn't have "a. few old. fishes he didn't want any more."

"I have no fishes," the man rephed, "but I'll be glad to tell you how to keep

A grin of con-

and breed them, my boy." tempt and disappointment "Well,

face of the boy.

over the

flitted if

yer

ain't

got

he said, "yer information can't

no

fishes,"

be

much good."

here

attention to something similar

call

that exists in the protoplasm of plants.

Growers of melons and certain other vegetables are aware that old seeds produce more fruitful plants than do young ones.

A

certain age or maturity of the

protoplasm seems not

show

single the

Casper L. Redfield, of Chicago, has repeatedly called the attention of scientists

him which account for the improvement

to a theory advanced by

purports to

man by

noted in various animals and etfect of age

the

on protoplasm. In the trothe finds that

for instance,

ting horse,

young animals are not the record-makers, but that powers of such animals increase up to a considerable age. He finds, also, that the progeny of such sires appear to

be influenced by age in the same way, the older the animal at the time of breeding,

show im-

the likelier the colt will be to

Redfield asserts that such

proved speed. relationships

concludes

elsewhere, and even

exist

that

the

of age only.

men

He

between

difference

genius and mediocrity in

man no

finds that

is

a matter

really great

of the caliber of Darwin, Edison or

It is

their capabilities the first time

they blossom.

The Redfield Theory

to be necessary.

well known, too, that seedling peonies do

The

crease in size and several

flowers

may

be nearly

season and steadily in-

first

successive

number

of petals for

The

years.

double

pink daisy (Pyrethrum hybriduni), often

show the

requires four or five years to

At the

double feature. flower heads condition,

may

first

exhibit

blooming the the

"single"

and the novice finding no dou-

ble flowers

among them, may

clude that his

is

hastily con-

inferior stock, but in a

few years doubling may begin. All this shows that some change in the protoplasm must take place with age. As a matter of fact, growing old may be assumed to be due to changes in the protoplasm of the individual.

Seekers for an elixir of life might find these facts worth investigation.

The American Botanist.

(Aquarists have an exceptional opportunity to test this theory in to fishes.

its

application

Ed.)

Galileo have been sons of young parents.

According to his theory, the male parents

for at least three generations

must have

been more than

when

7,2

years old

children were born. a

man

In three generations

has seven male ancestors, and

the total of their ages

when

were born does not

total

years,

eminent.

Since

nuisl exi\t.

;iii(]

for

will

iliis

their

234

not be are obi-

persons,

superiority

theory seems to be

a step in solving the riddle. is

least

at

all great men many mediocre

ex]>]anation

if

their children

the third generation

ously related to

some

their

Whether

it

the right exjjlanation or not depends

iijjon

further investigation,

l)ut

we may

Passaic Society The Passaic County Aquarium

Society

was organized by Charles Pietzsch, Paul Hutermeier, Fred Julius Baumgarten, J. S. Roass, K. Blankennagel and Max Ronath, on October 7th.

19 19. Regular meeting will be held on the first and third Tuesdays of each month, at Max Donath's hotel, Clifton, N. J. Aquarists who may desire to become members can secure information from Findeisen,

the

secretary,

addressing

him

Hamilton avenue, Passaic, N. P)LA N KKN AGKL. Secretarv.

J.

at

168

Kuno

Statc))iciif

(if

Circulation,

Ownership.

the lite..

J<equircd

by

Management, the Act of

Congress of August 24, 1912, of Aquatic monthly at Philadelphia, Life, published Pennsylvania, for October 1, ]919. )

in

and for the

County aforesaid, personally appeared W. A. Poyser, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the editor of Aquatic Life, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in Section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, to wit That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are Publisher Joseph E. Bausman, 542 East Girard Avenue. Philadelphia, Pa. Editor— W. A. Poyser, 207 South Thirtyseventh street, Philadelphia, Pa. true

statement

:

—

—

;

;

;

;

Breeding Habits of Mud-minnow, notes

ilies,

and news.

Aquarium

October.

Hemiramphus

(Heede)

latipinna

Heating (Breder) (Brind) Mollienisia Blue-tailed Skink (Deck;

fluviatilis ;

;

Factors Controlling the Development of Tropical Aquarium Fishes (Webber) Snails in Aquaria (Gale) Habits of Black Bass, The ert)

;

;

;

Pipe-fish,

notes, etc.

November.

American Live-bearing Toothcarps (Bade) Aquarium Notes (Leitholf) Notes on Krefftius adspersus (Freund) The Anatomy of the Fish (Clark) Breeding Habits ;

;

;

;

A

of Burmese Eel (Finckh) Bloated Axolotl (IVaite); The Name "Water Flea," notes and news. ;

December.

Managing Editor None.

Business Managers None.

—

Cynolebias recurva and Other

Tillaea

That the owners are: (Give names and addresses of individual owners, or, if a corporation, give its name and the names and addresses of stockholders owning or holding 1 per cent, or more of the total amount of stock.)

—

(Boyd) Aquarium Water and Its Restoration (Dormeier) Aquarium Heater (Hale) Fish Foods (Pleede) Happy FamSnail

and

a

;

;

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'^^ i

Before me, a notary public

belief,

1918—1919 September, 1918.

The Blood-fin (fleede) Breeding Haplochilus cameronensis (Xelles) The Spotted Gourami (Kearns) Japanese ;

State of Pennsylvania, County of Philadelphia.

State

aquatic Life

—

Ozmiers Joseph E. Bausman, 542 East Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, Pa. W. A. Poyser, 207 South Thirty-seventh street, ;

Philadelphia, Pa. That the known bondholders, mortgagees and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent, or more of the total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are N^one.

(Brind) (Finckh) Aquarist vs.

bellottii

;

Notes

Another Tank Heater (Kuhn) Aquarian (Mellcn) Emotions ;

;

of Fishes Cigar Box Aquarium (Modesto) Florida Notes (Carlton) Photos3-nthesis, Miscellaneous notes, news, etc. ;

(Gale);

A

;

;

January, holf)

1919.

Limia caudofasciata Classification of Fishes (Stead)

;

Changes of the Chub-sucker (Hubbs)

;

(Leit-

Color Neetro;

(Brind) A Simple Heated (Finckh) Notes on the Breeding Habits of the Pigmy Sunfish (Poyser) Goldfish Farm of Kichigoro Akiyama, notes and news.

phis

car pint is

;

Aquarium

;

;

February. Polycentropsis abbreviata(5r/»rf) Cho^-ogaster cornutus, the Fish of the Dismal ;

W. A. POYSER,

Editor.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st day of October, 1919.

(Seal) Josephine V. Yeager.

My commission expires April first, 1923.

Little Artliur

— "I

— "Yes,

"Then what's

is it

true

it

A Wood

Aquarium

(F/7;

;

;

March. Breeding the Goldfish (Hanna) Observations on the Chelonians of North America, Part I (Shufeldt) Lucania ommata ;

Arthur; quite true."

Mexican

the use of the

swordtail ha^•ing a sword

use

;

Danio

malabaricus (Leitholf) Notes on Native Fishes (Pray) Managing the Aquarium (Innes) Reactions of Fishes to Habit-forming Drugs, The Boston Show, A True Fish Story, notes and news. ;

:

say, father,

that nature never wastes anything?"

Father

Swamp (Welsh) kington)

when

it

can't

Apistogramma agassizi (Heede); Water-fleas (Tompkins) Viviparou«

(Welsh):

The

;

Fishes-in-general (Stead) Striped Gourami (Simpson)

Breeding the Notes and news.

;

;

April.

The Surinam Toad (Deckert) Cich'.asoma nigrofasciatum (Brind) Keeping (Luies); Living Food Alive Beware tne

?"

;

;

Dragonfly (Gordon)

The primary

class

had been studying

physiology, and in response to a question concerning the human skeleton a pupil replied:

"The

without

it

skeleton

is if

you

you couldn't get up."

sat

down

(Putnam); Water

;

An

Lilies,

Historical Notes {Pring)

;

Electrolytic Aerator

Some Beef

Cultural and notes

vs. Liver,

and news.

Nanostomus eques (Bri)id) Tho Horse-tail (JJ^obler) Observations on Chelonians nf North .America, Part 11.

[NL^.Y.

Water the

;

;

I Became a Fancier (Proctor) Peculiar Planorbis {Breder) Association and Color Discrimination in Mudminnows and {White) The Hay Infusion Sticklebacks

(Shiifeldt)

;

;

A

^

"~

J"

;

Giant Anach aris

;

Microcosm {Woodruff) notes and news. on

Observations

June.

;

North America, Part

III

The Bladderworts,

We

Chelonians of (Shufeldt) ; Gam-

the

(Briiid) ; The Wheel Animal(Bade); Sonnet to a Goldfish (Bitrditt) ; A Study of the Diamond Bass (Trell); The (Barker); Goldfish in Brook Stickleback China, Red-colored Water, Crappie Spawn in Washington Aquarium, and Society News.

busia episcopi cules

The July. A Big-headed Gurnard (Fowler) Nesting Habits of Certain Sunfishes as Observed in a Park Lagoon in Chicago (Hubbs) Badis badis (Brind) The Paradise Fish (BalThe Garden a Terrarium (Breder) Iciscit) Fish Elevator, Aquarium, Philadelphia Akiyama Goldfish Farm, notes and news.

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Xotropis inetallicMis, Fiindiihis heteroclitus, Gambusia holl>rooki, Goldfish Sliiil)iinkiiis (Spotted (Joldtish), .$4 00 per dozen.

—

all

varieties.

.lapancse Snails, .$2.00 and $2..")0 per dozen.

Vallisneria (narrow leaf), 30 cents i)er dozen; Yallisneria (wide leaf), fiO cents per ridzen: Sa^'ittaria (liroad leaf). 7.5 cents per dozen; Water Poppy, .$1.00 per dozen; Cabomha, Giant Anacharis, Potoniof^eton and Myriophyllum spicatiun (milfoil), ".") cents per d(^zen Red, K^yptlan Lotus (dormant tnl)ers best time to plant), .")0 cents each.

I.iukIk-s.

White and Yellow Water Miles (dormant tnbers), 50 cents each; (seeds, 1.") cents p(>r p:ick:i;.'-e).

All plants iiostpald.

Freshwater Shrimi*. sun dried, shelled and shredded. The l)est fish food. Contains no White AVorms (EnCoarse, medium or fine, .$1.10 per pound, postpaid. other substances.

The chytraeus), per portion, .")0 cents, with instructions how to breed a continuous supi)Iy. A i-olli-etion of twelve varieties of a(iuarium plants, $1.00, postpaid. When best live food. ri-Miittintr for fishes please im-lude .")0 cents for sliippinn' can.

I'laiits,

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Mixed

Colors, Blues, Blacks

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Calicos, Etc.

ArcAdiA Sound Beach

Connecticut

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SILVER

Wyoming Avenue

&

C. Street, Phila.,

Pa

Fancier and Breeder of Tropical Fishes Splendid healthy stock at reasonable Haplochilus cameronensis, Betta rubra, etc.

All kinds of live-bearing

35c Extra for Shipping

prices.

Cash With Order

fishes.

NEW

Street YORK (Between 2d and 3d avenues)

235 East 11th

HENRY

CITY

Breeder & Fancier of Broadtail Telescopes Tropical

Fishes,

Plants and

Snails.

Telephone 461

241 Walker Street, Cliffside, N.

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Diatoms

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Volumes average

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Aquarium Supplies

WANTED:

of

Snails

and

kinds at

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all

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JAPANESE GOLDFISH )R. HUGH M. SMITH

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Nippon Goldfish Go

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