New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-05-02
TREASUREDIN AN AQUARIUM
SOME OF HERR Won sCHI ICHTING'S
RARE AND CURIOUS FISH.
BEAUTIFUL AND HIGH-CoLoRED D-:NIZENs OF
EASTERN wArERs-FIsH THAT ARE WORTH

BEAUTIFUL AND HIGHCoLoRED d :NIZENs OF
EASTERN wArERs-FIsH THAT ARE WORTH
ALMOST THEIR WEIGHT IN GOLD.
The salamander Club interests Itself orly In
fishes. frogs, lizards and aquatic plants suitable
for aquarium cultivation. On the second FRIDAY
of every month they meet at No 1872 Third-ave to
exchange little things with long names belonging
TO those various orders Of being. This exchange
is not conducted upon financial basis. The Sala-
mandcrs are professional men and persons OF means
who, having retired from the rude activities or
business find placid enjoyment In distracted con-
temptation OF pretty things honored by science and
rather beyond the means Of the masses When In
the natural course OF events frogs and fishes null
tiply and vegetation increases In their aquariums
they distribute their surplusage. The monetary
value of the things is not a consideration among
Saamanders, though pretty much all they dehsht
in cherlshing costly beyond all proportion 10
their size Herr Emil Won Schlichting IL president
of the club. or Chief Saamander. and mas the
largest and choicest collection OF aquarium treas
ures In this country. Some OF his overflow o. rare
and curious things he has presented TO Dr. bean.
the director OF the public aquarium at Castle Gar
den to enrich that institution. but In doing so mas
not impaired the private collection at his residence,
No. III Webster-ave Hoboken Heights.
Two rooms are devoted to this collection, one Tor
such aquatic creatures as do best in moderate
temperature, the Otner TOT tHOse tHdt H"St away
have a tropical heat, like that OF their native
clImes. In the former central post or honor Is
occupied by Wardlan case, the diminutive trees.
vines and other plants In which are so arranged
that It looks like charming Wild woodland NOOK
viewed through a reversed opera glass. CntN
little while ago the spectacular glory OF this case
was an Australian golden tree frog, big Fellow
OF such canniballstc tastes that he would eat
nothing but small frogs Of common species. He
cost sos in Hamburg, and the little brethren on
which he lived cost 10 cents each, so that he was
no cheap frog either to get or 10 keep, ana wnen
Herr Won Schlichting went over to Europe last
year on his annual hunt through Hamburg. Berlin.
Bremen and other cities for novelties in his line
of interest he gave the golden lump away. big
green tree frog from Nicaragua has taken the
Australians place. He. too eats little frogs. nut
condescends to worms also. Various sorts OK
lizards dart among the foliage. eyng with sus-
pic!on the green leaper over their heads. as II
speculating on the possibility of his attacking
them as frogs from end or worms from the
other on a leaf. little gray tree frog makes
himself as small as possible and never loses sight
Of the big Nicaraguan who swallowed his brother
only a day or two ago. which will be his fate yet
and whose loud cries. heard all through the house.
no doubt sound to him as the lions roar sounds to
the lamb.
IN a tank near a window eight small fishes. quite
new here, dart among the aquatic plants, showing