Wanganui Aquarium Under Flood Interests San Francisco Publication

Wanganui Chronicle, 19 December 1950, Page 4

Wanganui Aquarium Under Flood Interests San Francisco Publication

The October issue of the “Aqu .Hum i Journal,” published in San Francisco devotes a page to V. aif/anui, m ar. article referring to Mr R. 11. Taylor’s fishhouso in Bur:on Avenue and the destruction caused there by a flood. Inst February. A photograph of Mr. Taylor’s residua/e surounaed by water, heads the article, which is by Henry A. Nichoir. 'ihe big fishhouse and five or s x pool; which Mr. Taylor has constructed were swamped by the licod. The article comments that garden pool:. are just, about a necessity in New Zealand i home without at least one being a rarity. Restriction on (lie use oi electric rower has ca. considerably info the keeping of “tropical’’ fish in New Zealand, tne article points out. ro its readers, and the magazine is taking an interest in Mr. Taylor’s experiment in keeping “tropic tl’ ’fish in water ol lower temperature than the experts adv's?. He has been pleased with results in keeping White Cloud Mountain Mim.ovib at non-trop'.cai tempe.atures. In cool tanks his White Clouds have grown bigger, have been reeving more enthusiastically and have developed richer colourings thin m the warmer temperature water.