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Title: The book of the aquarium and water cabinet; or Practical instructions on the formation, stocking, and management, in all seasons, of collections of fresh water and marine life
Identifier: bookofaquariumwa00hibb (find matches)
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890
Subjects: Aquariums; Aquarium plants
Publisher: London, Groombridge
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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THE MARINE AQUARIUM. as evidenced in the construction of the most humble creatures. The winkles accomplish for the marine-tank what the freshwater snails do for the river-tank, they scrape confervoid growths from the glass, and so help to preserve the crystalline aspect of the tank. All the species of winkle are capable of domestication, Littorina littorea, the common sort, and E. Uttoralis, a pretty little fellow, with a gaily mottled hybemaculum.
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PORCELLANA PLATYCHELES, CANCER PAGURUS. The Trochus tribe, better known as Tops, are also useful as cleaners, and in appearance are more stately and ornamental than the winkle, their cleanly marked conical shell attracting as much attention from strange eyes as the noble planorbis comeus does in the river-tank. Generally speaking, univalves are more easily kept than bivalves; many of the latter are apt to die off, and cause some amount of putrescence before their demise is discovered.

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