William Alford Lloyd

William Alfred Lloyd (1826–1880) was an English self-taught zoologist who became the first professional aquarist.

Inspired by Gosse's new book, The Aquarium, published in 1854 Lloyd, who worked for a bookseller,began keeping marine animals in glass tanks. On 14 July 1855 he opened a shop advertised in Notes & Queries as “selling everything relating to aquaria” at 164 St John Street Road, Clerkenwell, London. In 1856 he opened a new shop “The Aquarium Warehouse” at 20, Portland Road, Regent's Park and in 1860 he supervised the installation of an aquarium The Gardens of the Society of Acclimatation in Bois de Boulogne in Paris.

By the 1860s the aquarium craze was over, at least in England, and Lloyd went bankrupt and in 1862 supported by Richard Owen he moved to Grindel Dammthor, Hamburg to supervise the installation of the circulating system and tanks at the Hamburg Aquarium.Success in Germany led to his appontment as Superintendent of the Crystal Palace Aquarium two years before it opened in 1871. Anton Dohrn who had made Lloyd's acquaintance in 1866 at the Hamburg aquarium invited him to install the aquaria at Stazione Zoologica at Naples in the spring of 1873. Here some of Lloyd's circulating system was still operating well into the 20th century. Anton Dohrn's professional biological station flourished and the Swedish Professor Loven of Sweden, who planned a research establishment sent a representative to London to consult with Lloyd. In England Lloyd's last post was as superintendent at the Aston Aquarium, Birmingham.

References

Edmund Gosse (1890). The Life of Philip Henry Gosse.

External links

Parlour Aquariums Very detailed references. Mostly manuscript.

Aquariums and fishkeeping

Aquarium types	Freshwater Marine Reef Brackish-water Community Biotope

Aquarium décor and equipment	Airstone Algae scrubber Berlin Method Bog-wood / Driftwood Calcium reactor Deep sand bed Filter Fishcam Fish feeder Heater Lighting Live rock / Live sand Powerhead Protein skimmer Refugium Substrate Sump

Fish terms / types	Algae eater Bottom feeder Coldwater Dither Hardy Painted Tropical

Fish food	Brine shrimp Daphnia Feeder fish Infusoria Shrimp mix Tubifex tubifex

Other concepts	Aquarium fishery Aquascaping Artificial seawater Bath treatment Clean-up crew Disease in ornamental fish Macquarium Project Piaba Quarantine tank Reef safe Spawning triggers

People	Takashi Amano Herbert R. Axelrod Pierre Carbonnier Edward Edwards Philip Henry Gosse Sven O. Kullander William Alford Lloyd Paul Matte Julian Sprung Anna Thynne Charles Haskins Townsend Jeanne Villepreux-Power Robert Warington

Magazines	Aquarium Fish International Koi Practical Fishkeeping Tropical Fish Hobbyist

Companies	Drs. Foster & Smith Eheim Hagen Sera Tetra

Lists	Aquarium diseases Aquarium fish by scientific name Freshwater aquarium fish / amphibians / invertebrates / plants Marine aquarium fish / invertebrates / plants Brackish aquarium fish / invertebrates / plants

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