The salt water aquarium in the home

1. All-glass aquarium with salt water and fresh water compartments 2. simple fish bowl container for Dwarf Sea Horse 3. Molded plastic aquarium designed as coffee table 4. Vegetable crisper used as leak proof aquarium 5. plastic aquarium wiht Angelfish, Butterfly fish, Beau Gregory and Gobies 6. Aquarium with lettuce coral provides home for Royal Grammas and Rock Beauty 7. Aquarium with glass cover to prevent evaporation 8. the strange orange File fish 9. Modern under gravel filter 10. Aquarium with sub sand filter 11. Aquarium filtered and aerated by Miracle sub sand filter 12-15. the salt water procedure 16. lettuce coral, a fine hiding place for Butterfly fish and Neon Goby 17. easy to cure and clean for marine tank, Atlantic Staghorn coral 18. pipe organ coral and Tridacna shells make secure home for small marine fish 19. Atlantic sea fans and coral 20. brain coral cuared and prepared for salt water aqarium 21. pair of Neon Gobies sheltered by Tridacna shell 22. Aquarium with Lump coral 23. Dead coral formation resembling miniature volcano 24. inverted Elkhorn coral makes superb home for Mantis shrimp 25-26. the salt water procedure 27. aquarium with outside filter only 28. inside bottom filter, preferred by some aqarists 29. black box used for realistic background effect 30. sand arrangements in the aquarium 31. underwater effect created in finished aquarium 32. Rock Beauty's tail with chunk missing 33. Cubbuy with badly nipped dorsal fin 34. procedure for cleaning sand in aquarium 35. the hydrometer, indispensable tool for the marine aquarist 36. marine plants provide food for Black Angelfish 37. green algae cultivated by giving aquarium excess light 38. four eye butterfly fish feeds on mushroom coral 39. equipment for preparing shrimp food 40. preparing a month's supply for shrimp food 41. final step in preparation of shrimp food 42. feeding the lion fish 43. Queen Triggerfish, fed by impaling food on toothpick 44. fresh shrimp fed to sea anemones 45. live minnows floated in aquarium before being fed to Lion fish 46. French Angelfish fed by hand 47. diseased Sea Horse with fungus area on pouch 48. Anglerfish and its food are floated in aquarium 49. young French Angelfish suffering from "Skin Blotch" 50. Penicillus capitatus growing in aquarium 51. tiny Udotea flabellum resembles sea fan 52. Full grown Udotea flabellum 53. Acetabularia, a delicate and beautiful marine plant 54. Caulerpa ashmeadii 55. Golden Sea Horse perched in living coral 56. group of coral fishes with live coral 57. live coral with tube worms 58. aquarium with live coral, live Gorgonias, and fish 59. live Gorgonias in blossom 60. an unusual decoration, the Basket sponge 61. black and yellow black angelfish 62. the queen angelfish, perhaps the most beautiful fish in the world 63. young black angelfish 64. adult black angelfish 65. adult french angelfish 66. young french angelfish 67. the lion fish a posonous marine specimen 68. a group of young lion fish searching for minnows 69. perfect speciment of young Rock beauty 70. mature rock beauty and elkhorn coral 71. hardy and beautiful marine clown fish 72. a pair of mated neon gobies 73. unborn gobies hatching in shell 74. sparkling jewel fish 75. atlantic and pacific fish occupying same aquarium 76. popular butterfly fish with false eye 77. painted butterfly fish hardiest of the species 78. banded butterfly fish and coral encrusted sea fan 79. long finned butterfly fish 80. exquisite royal gramma one of the most expensive marine fish 81. display of blue reef fisha and yellow tang 82. delicate jackknife or ribbon fish 83. black and white dascyllus melanurus contrasts with snowy cc in tank 84. pacific blue angelfish 85. pacific mud skipper resting partly out of water 86. mud skipper resting on a rock in shallow aquarium 87. beautiful semi transparent convict Goby 88. circle of adult marine clown fish 89. Cubbuy, and interesting and inexpensive addition to the aquarium 90. two young squirrel fish relax under cluster of Elkhorn coral 91. huge ocatopus, a docile creature belies its size 92. powerful suction discs help octopus hold its prey 93. incredible Boston Beans baby Trunkfish and Cowfish 94. pair of large sea horses 95. pregnant male sea horse 96. sea horse with his family 97. young sea horses covered with hairy growths 98. water in dwarf sea horse aquarium kept in motion with air pump 99. dwarf sea horse a hardy an inexpensive species 100. miniature sea palms and plants decorate the sea horse aquarium 101. pipe fish close relative of the sea horse 102. black edge moray with toadfish 103. baby nurse ahrks, fine pets in tha aquarium 104. remore, or shark sucker attached to back of nurse shark 105. anglerfish angling for its food 106. angler fish walking slowly about aquarium 107. angler wriggles worm like lure to attract minnow 108. minnow taking angler's bait is swallowed 109. porcupine fish 110. fully inflated porcupine fish 111. grumpy a rare member of spiny bosfish family 112. inflated spiny bosfish 113. common spiny boxfish examining its rare cousin 114. sargassum fish blends perfectly with its surroundings 115. sargassum fish swimming down from its lair to attack its prey 116. sargassum fish hypnotizes a demoiselle before eating it 117. live conch in search for food extends stalked eyes 118. miniature mangrove jungle constructed in aquarium 119. close up of display shows fiddler crabs 120. arrow crab or spider crab the daddy longlegs of the sea 121. banded coral shrimp shedding its skin 122. banded coral shrimp and discarded outer skin 123. giant sponge crab in finger coral 124. anemones attached to shell of hermit crab as camouflage 125. sea anemones from the coast of Florida 126. colorful shrimp in stining tentacles of sea anemone 127. basket starfish a marine oddity 128. another view shows detail of fern like arms 129. bristling mantle of giant cowry 130. drum type bowl equipped with new under gravel filter 131. matis shrimp 132. interesting addition to the aquarium is the hardy squat lobster 133. male fiddler crab showing single huge claw 134. female fiddler crab carries cluster of eggs under her tail 135. a large well blanced aquarum 136. a group of young black angelfish 137. sharp nosed reef puffer a fish with unusual tactics 138. rare rainbow goby 139. vicious queen triggerfish tamed in the aquarium 140. baby sea turtles harmless and lovable pets 141. underside of small ray 142. batfish angling for its food with a fishing lure on its forehead 143. front view of the batfish 144. lookdown an unusual marine speciment 145. portuguese man of war fish gather about tentacles of their host 146. man of war fish unharmed beneath portugues man of war jellyfish 147. almond eyed spotted reef trunkfish 148. aquarium with spanish hogfish sea fans and lettuce coral 149. mated pair of marine clown fish 150. adult common toadfish with babies 151. banded coral shrimp carries eggs beneath tail 152. eggs of salt water black angelfish 153. author preparing to dive on the coral reef.