Back caption: Queen Trigger-Fish / From a painting by Chas. R. Knight / Florida and West Indies. Shows four different phases of color. Can change color instantly.
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Back caption: New York Aquarium. Open daily. Free. 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. April-October. 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. November-March. Closed Monday forenoons. Reached by elevated, surface of subway lines running to So...
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Front caption: How to care for Turtles and Small Alligators. Cold-blooded reptiles such as turtles and alligators cannot thrive in captivity during the winter months without a temperature of 75 to 85 ...
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Front caption: How to care for Frogs and Salamanders. These animals may be kept in aquaria or other vessels provided with sufficient water to cover them. Provision must be made for space upon which th...
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Front caption: The Sea Horse (Hippocampus hudsonius) is found along the Atlantic Coast from Massachusetts to Florida. It reaches a length of nearly seven inches. The largest species known, inhabiting ...
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Front caption: How to care for salt water aquarium. Water and marine plants must be used with marine animals. Loss through evaporation may be replaced with fresh water from the faucet as most of the o...
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Back caption: Giant Snapping Turtles. Lower Mississippi region. Largest fresh-water turtle. Greatest weight 150 pounds. Jaws very powerful. Used for food.
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Back caption: Crimson Sea Anemone and Channelled Whelk. North Atlantic coast. The whelk spawned its string of egg-cocoons 17 inches long in 11 days. The mother whelk is 8 inches in length.
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Back caption: Porpoises. Captured at Cape Hatteras, N.C. Porpoises are air breathing, milk giving, warm blooded aquatic mammals of the whale order. These are the only specimens of their kind in captiv...
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Front caption: How to care for an Aquarium. Use pure water, which should not be changed; it is better to introduce water plants, which will supply oxygen for aeration. Put fine washed gravel or coarse...
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Back caption: A Giant Lobster. 38 inches long; weight 21 pounds. Captured off Sandy Hook, N. J. Received New York Aquarium Sept. 1913. The longest known specimen.
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