It is much to be regretted, I think, that aquaria have fallen into disrepute.
Frequently found in aquaria where I have kept it growing continuously for years.
The yellow film on the inside of aquaria always contains small species.
Self-sustaining aquaria are very simple and any boy or girl living near a brook can stock one at no expense whatever.
Rectangular glass boxes such as are commonly used for aquaria cost less than a dollar per gallon capacity.
Glass aquaria may be bought so cheaply that it is doubtful if you can save any money by making one at home.
White glass roundaquaria are much cheaper and those made of greenish domestic glass are the cheapest of all, a glass tank holding eight gallons costing but two dollars.
These are called "self-sustaining" aquaria and they are the only kind to have unless we can furnish running water from a public water supply.
The old way of maintaining aquaria in good condition required a great deal of care and attention.
Living goldfishes or other fishes in small aquaria for individual study and a few fishes in a large aquarium where they have considerable freedom of motion.
Does there seem to be any tendency for the snail to go up and down the sides of the aquaria vertically rather than to the right or left?
Optional) By means of some book in the laboratory, determine the scientific name of each of the snails found in the various aquaria in the laboratory.
Their aquaria must be kept free from green plants, and have a layer of fine mud, with a few decaying leaves, in the bottom.
Individuals kept in aquaria with one end darkened either collected in the darkened area floating about, or under leaves or sticks in any part of the aquarium.
Aquaria on a large scale have been constructed in connection with public parks or gardens, and the name is also given to places of public entertainment in which large aquaria are exhibited.
Those who keep aquaria in an intelligent manner and study the habits of the creatures they imprison, will find it both interesting work, and a never-failing source of amusement.
The roach, bream, and minnows, were put into two of the aquaria by themselves, and the sticklebacks and water-insects into the other.
The same remark applies to this as to aquaria (see Chapter XIII.
It is safe to say the display of aquatic life made here, could rival the greatest permanent aquaria in existence; not only as to their voluminousness, but the immense variety of their specimens.
Walking through a curved arcade, we beheld on either side aquaria of an enormous capacity, inclosing both denizens of fresh and salt water.
These temporary aquaria may consist of jars or earthenware pans of any kind, each containing a few small tufts of weed, preferably attached to pieces of rock, and a layer of sand or gravel from the beach.
As long as the outdoor work is in progress temporary aquaria will be very useful as a means by which the objects collected may be sorted and stored until a final selection is made for the permanent tank.
If, therefore, the observer desires to study the ways in which the various creatures secure and devour their food, he should introduce into his aquaria live marine worms and other small animals, and also small pieces of fish or flesh.
The first thing to settle, then, is the nature of the vessel or vessels that are to serve the purpose of aquaria for the work of the young naturalist.
The author is a Mr. Butler, who has got up the mammoth aquaria in Barnum's Museum.
The largest aquaria in this country are now on exhibition at Barnum's Museum, New York.
The aquaria are of two kinds: one is formed of salt water, and contains marine plants and animals; the other contains fresh water, and such plants and animals as are found in rivers and smaller streams.
It has no visible resemblance to the adult Balanoglossus, but it has been reared in aquaria and shown to pass into the latter or into the related genus Glossobalanus.
Greene observes: "I have kept specimens of Porichthys in aquaria at the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory, and have made numerous observations on them with an effort to secure ocular proof of the phosphorescence of the living active fish.
Among the more available plants for use in aquaria are the following: "Waterweed, Elodea canadensis.
The beetles may be readily collected with a water-net, and kept alive in glass jars or aquaria in water containing decaying vegetation.
In the following paragraphs are given directions for making the necessary live-cages and aquaria for these insects.
For the breeding of aquatic insects aquaria are needed.
In the spring the development of several kinds of animals, including the toad, can be studied from live specimens in the field or in breeding-cages and aquaria in the laboratory.
As the ordinary rectangular aquaria are expensive and are liable to leak we use glass vessels instead.
The fire probably originated in the engine-room, where steam was constantly kept up to pump fresh air into the waters of the aquaria and to propel the immense fans for cooling the atmosphere of the rooms.
And yet we are more encouraged to think that the whale owed his death to other causes than the overland transportation, because the sea lion does so well, and the fishes in the aquaria appear to be so hearty and contented.
In aquaria they sometimes attach themselves in large numbers to the glass sides of the vessel.
D, E), often met with in company with other algæ, and growing readily in aquaria when once established.
Eighty-four feet of aquaria were put in, and it is indisputable that they were the best built, most practical, and best arranged in the building.
Thirty-five aquaria were placed on two sides of the main aisle.
The exhibit at the United States Fish Commission Building was in the large aquarium situated in the southeast corner of the building and the two smaller aquaria immediately adjoining on the right and left.
Observation of the living animal in aquaria has shown that their functions is to capture active prey such as prawns.
Such forms of aquariahave their place in the world, but they are not suited to the needs of an ordinary school-room.
The shallow form is better for raising toads, frogs and insect larvae; the deeper aquaria show water plants and fishes to better advantage.
Lids of wire screen are shown on some of the aquaria in the picture (1, 2 and 3).
There are rectangular and round aquaria of various sizes kept by all firms who deal in laboratory supplies, and if some money is to be spent, one of these is a good investment.
In pools where there are many dead leaves look for the caddice worms that build the log cabin cases, for these may be kept in aquaria that have no running water.
Two kinds of aquaria will be found useful in any school.
Bell glasses for aquaria are to be obtained of any of the dealers in aquarian stock, and at most horticultural glass warehouses.
The instructions already given for the management of Aquaria will be found to embrace most of the points involved in the management of beetle and larva jars, for these are but Aquaria on a smaller scale.
In its east pavilion was a double row of grottoed and illuminated aquariacontaining the strangest inhabitants of the deep.
The fire probably originated in the engine room, where steam was constantly kept up to pump fresh air into the water of the aquaria and to propel the immense fans for cooling the atmosphere of the halls.
I, therefore, replenished this portion of my aquariaduring the summer, and for several summers in succession, by sending a special vessel to the Gulf for specimens.
On the tables are magnificent specimens of palms, cycads, dracaenas, and aspidistras, and numerous aquaria filled with various water plants.
Tumblers and aquaria are utilized as vivaria, so that there is abundant opportunity for the individual study of living specimens.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aquaria" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
