Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-04-10
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MT OF tIOnN iaNISt ape ! ne luieTI-
or - IN cpltunc e the life and light
and color II tn" marvellous South Sea
Paradis" which is represents
An aquarium. containing over
hundred varieties Of GENEROUSLY
striped ana dotted and variegatrd fish
II all sorts ami sizes, is III" JOY OF
the admiring throng which daily
spends hours in front Of the glass
tanks watching tn" antics and the az
tyitics al these Raudy little aristO-
Gratis. for such indeed they are. 1t
has been no easy task to transfer
these denizens Ct the deep from their
cosy warm waters among the coral
caves and Strange-hued sea.fOrests TO
the shallow tanks where strange hui
mans stare at them. disturbing their
vented privacy In the first place they
absolutely refuse to live and diSpOrt
themselves in any but pure. fresh
ocean water. The minute the slightest
CNtraneous matter iniects itself they
die. Consequently they are handled
and housed with the greatest care.
They were brought from Honolulu on
the liner MatSOnia in six tanks filled
with fresh sea water They were Sc
gregatCd according TO size and SYM
Eathies. for they are temperamental
little things and must he treated as
such. Throughout the journey until
re- the Farallones were sighted the wa
ter was continually pumped into the
tanks from the ocean, but as soon
. as the ship was in touch with the
currents from the bay the pumps
were stopped as the impurities and
. oils from bay water would have killed
them instantly. AS soon as the
. pumps were stopped, oxygen was
continuously pumped into the tanks
: in order to keep the water fresh.
4 And all this care was but a pre-.
4 liminary. Every week a steamer is
sent out beyond the Farallones to
get fresh ocean water for them. In
the interim the oxygen pump and
the exhaust and filling pumps are con.
stantly at work, the one diffusing air
in the water the other drawing off
the water, fitering it through clean
pebbles and returning II to the tanks.
The water is always kept. at a tenn
perature Of ~ degrees. A new supply
Of fish is sent over from Honolulu
every month as a certain percentage
is lost
However their care is far surpass-
ed by their capacity for giving de-
light They are the most beautiful and
most interesting Of fishes. In fact,
they are so unique that many people
have thought that. in some impossible
way. they had been painted and col
ored. All shades Of yellow, orange,
violet, Lavender, green, blue, red, &C.
rise, brown, plaided and striped and
dotted and mixed up. have been
splashed upon the palette of the
South Seas by Natures lavish hand.
There Is the Humuhumu Nukunuku
Apuaa-not at all large fish. but an
enormously hedizened one. His fan
like tail is changeable blue and pur-
pie; his forehead Is black, part of his
body is bright yellow, the remainder
Is splotched blue and black; his gills
are gilded; his fms are orange; while
along the ridge of his back is a row
Of transparent spines Of pale yellow
tipped In black. The boxlike fish is the
funniest little thing imaginable. His
body is about two inches long and an
inch square, curving only at the tail,
which is a circular fan effect that
looks as II it were made of most deli
cate tortoise she'll. One of these fans
ornaments the top of his body, one
the underneath and one on each side
near the gills. His body is wine
colored polka dotted with white He
looks exactly like Zeppelin. The
Nohu, though gorgeous, is not pleas
ant to look upon. Every color of the
rainbow is splotched over his body,
which is long and ends in a tail of
many tints. The fms and comb are
Scotch plaided and his eyes are sure
ly bigger than his stomach, great,
ugly, vicious eyes set over a bulldog
jaw filled with sharp teeth The
butterfly fish rightfully should have
been named the convict, for his fat
tened, fragile body is striped in black
and white. He is almost without a
head, as his body comes to a point
on the tip of which opens an infinites-
nal mouth and saucy eye. The pill
koa is like a eoral-tinted founder with
the gold and green lights of the sea
playing through its scales.
The phil, the ulaula. the malolo,
the akilolo and the kihikihi, are all
so beautiful that it is fortunate for
them that their skins are not trans
ferable into millinery or they would
before long have become extinct.
There is one tiny fish, the kala, no
larger than a pea-pod. Its favorite
pastime is crawling into a spiral shell
In its tank and, smuggling down to
sleep just like a child at its mothers
breast 1t lies there for hours at a
time in perfect bliss as if it were
listening To the voice of the warm,
sunny waters Of its island home so
many miles away. The toad-fish is
an interesting even if ugly little man.
Whenever the crowd frightens him
be rushes under the coral rocks and
then no one can see him, for he has
the faculty of rejecting the color Of
his environment But most exciting
OF all, especially to the children. are
the eels, vicious scavengers Of the
deep. with their long, angry-looking
mouths filed with rows Of sharp teeth,