. Fresh-water aquaria: their construction, arrangement, and management, with full information as to the best water-plants and live stock to be kept, how and where to obtain them, and how to keep them in health. Aquariums. 142 PRESH-WATER AQUARIA. kind of -white, on wliicli are two broad reddish stripes running parallel with the mouth. The scales are small. The River BuUhead, or Miller's Thumb (Cottus gobio) (Fig. 102), is a very interesting little fish, and wiU live well in an aquarium. It may be caught in the same places and in the same way as the loach. After turning over a few of the rather
. Fresh-water aquaria: their construction, arrangement, and management, with full information as to the best water-plants and live stock to be kept, how and where to obtain them, and how to keep them in health. Aquariums. 142 PRESH-WATER AQUARIA. kind of -white, on wliicli are two broad reddish stripes running parallel with the mouth. The scales are small. The River BuUhead, or Miller's Thumb (Cottus gobio) (Fig. 102), is a very interesting little fish, and wiU live well in an aquarium. It may be caught in the same places and in the same way as the loach. After turning over a few of the rather large and flat stones of those streams in which Miller's Thumbs are known to exist, one or two will be almost certainly. Fig. 102. Bullhead (Coitus gobio). discovered. Upon the removal of the stone, the cunning little fish wUl remain perfectly motionless, trusting, no doubt, to its chameleon-like power of assuming the shade of the gravel upon which it is resting. Now is the opportunity of the aquarium-keeper, for, if he be quick, he can either catch the Bullhead in both of his hands, or he can throw it with one hand into a net held in front of the fish with the other. If the Bullhead is allowed to escape, it will dart away with such quickness to some other retreat, that it will be almost impos- sible to follow it with the eye, especially when the water has been disturbed by the ineffectual attempt to throw it into the net. It is wiser, therefore, to hunt for another fish rather than waste time in looking for the one that has just evaded capture. The Bullhead wiU. Kve more happily in a shallow aquarium than in a deep one. It is a great eater, and when at liberty feeds upon the larvsB of insects, worms, and the fry of fish. In confinement it will be satisfied with small garden-worms or pieces of meat, and will soon learn to take its food from its owner's fingers. The Bullhead is a plucky little fish. A few weeks ago I witnessed an interesting struggle between. Please note that t
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