. Fresh-water aquaria: their construction, arrangement, and management, with full information as to the best water-plants and live stock to be kept, how and where to obtain them, and how to keep them in health. Aquariums. 106 FEESH-WATEE AQUARIA. ungraceful either in form or in movement. It is provided with lungs as well as gills, and is therefore able to breathe both below and above water. The tail of the Axolotl is flattened on each side like that of the triton, and is supplied with a semi-transparent membranous fin. The head is flat and broad, and the muzzle blunt. The eyes ai'e small and t
. Fresh-water aquaria: their construction, arrangement, and management, with full information as to the best water-plants and live stock to be kept, how and where to obtain them, and how to keep them in health. Aquariums. 106 FEESH-WATEE AQUARIA. ungraceful either in form or in movement. It is provided with lungs as well as gills, and is therefore able to breathe both below and above water. The tail of the Axolotl is flattened on each side like that of the triton, and is supplied with a semi-transparent membranous fin. The head is flat and broad, and the muzzle blunt. The eyes ai'e small and the mouth wide. There are four digits on the front feet, and flve on the hind. The Axolotl, or Siredon as it is sometimes called, lives apparently very happily in the aquarium, soon becoming tame enough to take food from its master's flngers. It is not necessary to provide it with an island, as it prefers to remain. ."^^ Fig. 86. Ambltstome (Amblysioma mexicanus). in some shady retreat at the bottom of the tank. Occa- sionally, however, it comes to the surface of the water for atmospheric air (desiring, I suppose, a change of air), making as it does so the same "popping" noise as the newt under like circumstances; and sometimes it remains stationary in mid-water in an almost perpendicular attitude, head pointing upwards. The Siredon has a very good appetite and will live entirely upon garden worms and raw meat. Nevertheless, it is quite ready to make a meal of a small fish or a young newt. One day, for instance, I placed two young tritons, about four months old, in a tank which contained a pair of Axolotls, and a little wliile afterwards on looking for the former to remove them I could only find one. I hunted under every piece of weed and behind the rockwork in vain for the other, and was about to give the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these
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