Title: Aquatic life
Identifier: aquaticlife219161917baus (find matches)
Year: 1916-1917 (1910s)
Authors: Bausman, Joseph E
Subjects: Aquariums; Fish culture
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. E. Bausman
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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<aquattc JLitt 77 and polywogs in a very special tank as big as a packing case. Then came cold weather, with cold water, and a melan- choly company of goldfish found them- selves far from home with the mercury falling. . It was then that Mr. Chanler sought out the good offices of the Edison man. This ingenious functionary, though on better terms with calories than with fan- tails, bethought himself of combining: the itself ungratefully conservative. Not only do these electrically preserved fish huddle in corners when the lights are on, but at intervals they come gasping to the surface as if unconscious of the fact that electricity uses up less oxygen than light in any other form. Happily, the parrots, the pheasants, the yellow Amazon bolbas, the finches, with their companions of many names and voices and colors, are more ad-
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Mr. Chanler's Electrically Heated Aquairum two, with the result that an ordinary Simplex water heater was attached to the pipe immediately beneath the tank. Whatever the winter-bound inmates thought does not matter. What they did in recognition of this abrupt return of vernal conditions is still the delight of the Japanese in attendance. However, at the time of the innova- tion, current was further solicited.in the form of light bulbs inserted under the co\er. It is in this connection that the privileged communitv below lias shown vanced. Indeed, they seem never more themselves than when of an evening or a dull afternoon the garden is alight from a host of lamps shining through the roof and the green glass making up the side walls. At this the fish proceed to hide themselves among the shaded plants at the back of the tank. But then too much ought not to be expected.—Re- printed by permission, with courtesy of use of illustration, from The Bdisoii Mouihlx.

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