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IT will certainly surprise most readers to learn that there are about sixty flourishing aquarium societies in North America, and that there is a well-organised trade in about three hundred species of fresh-water fish. These are brought mainly from the tropics, where the fish are more brilliant in colour and often of bizarre shape. Here these fish are nearly all represented by photographs, many of them coloured. The fish are properly classified and named, and under each there is a description of the fish with an account of its spawning and its food and a note as to the temperature required. There are often practical hints as to keeping it in health and in some cases as to line breeding. This systematic part is preceded by a discussion of the primary principles, namely, sufficient oxygen, enough light, right temperature and correct feeding. There are directions as to prepared food and the collecting of such live foods as Daphnia, mosquito larvae, Tubifex and various other forms, together with the culturing of enchytrseids and infusorians. Then follow the enemies of fishwater beetles, dragon-fly larvae, Hydra, various other insects and Argulus.
Exotic Aquarium Fishes:
a Work of General Reference. By William T. Innes. Pp. 464. (Philadelphia: Innes Publishing Co., 1935.) 5 dollars.
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Exotic Aquarium Fishes. Nature 137, 1016 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/1371016b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1371016b0