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Updated: July 26, 2025
I recollect, as if it were but yesterday, our landing alongside the jetty on the carenage, right in front of one of Da Costa's big warehouses, whose green jalousies relieved the effect of the staring white building under the hot West Indian sun; the glare of which, cast back by the rippling translucent water that laved the stone jetty, through which one could see the little fishes gliding about as clearly as in the Brighton Aquarium, almost blinded us with its intensity.
Some time ago I went to an aquarium; it was close to the sea, so that there was no want of water to fill the tanks. At the bottom there was sand, and there were bits of rock, among which brown and green seaweeds were growing, in order that the prisoners might forget that they were shut up in a glass prison-house, and feel as much at home as possible in their captivity.
He has slain all his brethren that he may rule, as sultans used to do in Constantinople. One big fish in the aquarium has eaten up all the others. God only satisfies the soul. It is only the 'bread which came down from Heaven, of which if we eat our souls shall live, and be filled as with marrow and fatness. That One is all-sufficient in His Oneness.
It is an inquiry of practical importance to the aquarian naturalist, How far the diminished pressure which they meet with in the tank, on being transferred from their lower homes to the aquarium, may influence their viability. May not some of the numerous deaths in the marine tank be reasonably attributed to this lack of pressure?
"So he is, sir. But this is about something he did some time ago." The doctor settled himself judicially in his chair, and waited for the captain's report. "He got into bad company early in the term, sir, and was tempted down into the town without leave, and once let himself be taken to Beamish's Aquarium." The doctor gave a grunt of displeasure, which sounded rather ominous.
When the sunlight fell on my aquarium, I saw the silver bubbles of oxygen form on the green fronds of the sea-weed; the little snails crawled along the sides of the glass, sweeping out their tiny, scythelike tongues at every step; the prawns hovered in the shade of the stones or darted back and forward light as thoughts; the soles scuffled over the surface of the sand or hid themselves in it from the stalking, felonious crabs.
Self-sustaining aquaria are very simple and any boy or girl living near a brook can stock one at no expense whatever. The method is as follows: First cover the bottom of the aquarium with a layer of sand and pebbles to a depth of about two inches. Then plant in the bottom some aquatic or water plants that you have collected from a near-by lake.
No one had ever been cheered by the Aquarium; but the faces of those emerging quickly lost their dim, chilled expression when they perceived that it was only by standing in a queue that one could be admitted to the pier. Once through the turnstiles, every one walked for a yard or two very briskly; some flagged at this stall; others at that.
Collins is not the fish you are after?" asked Luckstone. "You are better acquainted with the game in this criminal aquarium than I am," retorted Britz. "Well, if you are through with Mr. Collins, I should like a few minutes of private conversation with him," said the lawyer. "I shall refrain from arresting Mr. Collins only on condition that he remain in custody of one of my men.
Perhaps the most satisfactory way to study fish and insect life in water is to use all glass boxes and globes. So many kinds of fish and insects are natural enemies, even though they inhabit the same streams, that they must be kept separate anyway. To put them in the same aquarium would be like caging up two game roosters.
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