Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1916 — Philadelphia Planning to Enlarge Its Aquarium [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Philadelphia Planning to Enlarge Its Aquarium

r» HILADELPHIA.—Incize and completeness and variety of fishes, it is P planned to make the Philadelphia Park aquarium equal to, if not to excel any public aquarium either in this country or abroad. Marine hall, ’ while constituting only a single section

of the aquarium, doubtless will be for r all time one of the greatest attractions. The huge fish tanks are built on such a liberal scale that to fill one of them requires 3,000 gallons, or nearly 15 tons, of sea water, and the sea water is brought to Philadelphia in barges from the Atlantic ocean, 15 miles off the shores of New Jersey. Marine hall is already a storehouse of fish lore, with the fishes, arranged In family groups, swimming in

the crystal-clear waters of the tanks, where every movement can be seen ati close range. There are 30 species of fresh water and 50 species of sea water fishes, with a total population of approximately 2,000. Among the fresh water fishes the sunfish family embraces calico, or strawberry bass: small-mouth bass, large-mouth bass, long-eared sunfish, blue-gill sunfish rock bass and other varieties. In the minnow family are pearl roach, silver roach and the ever-pleasing goldfishes. About the goldfishes, as about ail of the other species in the aquarium, the visitor learns most interesting faCt Descriptlons of the.seas, rivers or streams fish frfeqdent, their use for food, habits, etc. which are placed over each tank, aid in making tfie aquarium mg open encyclopedia. - . t . a