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Weitzman down at the museum to help me, and he made so many suggestions that the publishers got scared off, and they apparently aren't going to do it.

Henson: Did you just start when researching tropical fish and got more and more into it?

Mann: Yes.

Henson: Then you had aquarium at home, right?

Mann: We had aquarium all over the house.  We had five windows in our front room, and two of them had an aquarium, and we had two windows in the living room, there was an aquarium there, and there was an aquarium in the dining room--we had four or five.  One of them was a big tank--ten gallons, fifteen gallons, I forget.

Henson: Did you get involved with those soon after you got married? I guess so if you wrote the book in the thirties, yes.

Mann: That was after I was married.

Henson: Right, did you start keeping fish afterwards fairly soon after you got married?

Mann: Oh, yes.  I think I kept fish almost until the time I moved out here.  There didn't seem to be any good place for them here.

Henson: There wasn't as much of that at that point, was there? It later became a very popular thing, didn't it?