. The aquarium . AQUARIUM AND TERRARIUMCOMBINED. My aquarium is thirty-one by sixteenand twelve inches high. Disregardingmarine shells and corals and ruined cas-tles, I built a large rock out of tuffstoneand other grotesque pieces of rocks,. Design for an Aqua-Terrarium. reaching four to five inches above thesurface of the water and concealing in itsinterior a pot with cyperus alternifolia(Chinese umbrella plant). The rockycone occupies nearly one-half of theaquarium, and the space between it andthe glass is filled with sagittaria plantedin the sand. A few plants, waterpoppy and nymphcea flava
. The aquarium . AQUARIUM AND TERRARIUMCOMBINED. My aquarium is thirty-one by sixteenand twelve inches high. Disregardingmarine shells and corals and ruined cas-tles, I built a large rock out of tuffstoneand other grotesque pieces of rocks,. Design for an Aqua-Terrarium. reaching four to five inches above thesurface of the water and concealing in itsinterior a pot with cyperus alternifolia(Chinese umbrella plant). The rockycone occupies nearly one-half of theaquarium, and the space between it andthe glass is filled with sagittaria plantedin the sand. A few plants, waterpoppy and nymphcea flava, are in potsdistributed in the other half, and thepots are covered and concealed by THE AQUARIUM, OCTOBER, 1895. small pieces of rock. So we have onedark, rocky, and one clear side of theaquarium, in which goldfish, eels, smallcat and sunfishes, turtles and salaman-ders live together in perfect top of the aquarium rises a straightline of glass resting on a tin frame,roof-like, but open at the top, fourteeninches high ; glass plates, six incheswide, laid across the ends of the aqua-rium, form the bottom of the terrarium. Both glass plates are united bya rustic bridge made of oak bark. Oneof the glass plates is covered with
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