. 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. 152 FEESH-WATEE AQUAKIA, "taking in," as the schoolboy would say, equal to that of the fresh-water shark himself. SmaU Pike or Pickerel can easily be kept in an aquarium, but of course it is almost unnecessary to say that they should have no companions. Even two Pike, especially if one were much bigger than the other, would not be safe together. I have seen it serio
. 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. 152 FEESH-WATEE AQUAKIA, "taking in," as the schoolboy would say, equal to that of the fresh-water shark himself. SmaU Pike or Pickerel can easily be kept in an aquarium, but of course it is almost unnecessary to say that they should have no companions. Even two Pike, especially if one were much bigger than the other, would not be safe together. I have seen it seriously stated that Pike will not touch tench, perch, or gold-fish. And the reasons given for the Pike's very unusual reluctance to dine iipon his fellow-fish are, that he is never ungi-ateful enough to forget that the tench is the curer of aU the ills the piscine tribe is heir to; that he dare not attempt to swallow the perch and his formidable " fixed bayonets"; and that the gold-fish is quite safe because of his colour. But I. Fig. 105. Pike (Esox lucius). am quite sure that if a hungry Pike had these three fish for his companions in an aquarium, it would not be very long before he and his friends became so closely acquainted as to arrive at a state of perfect unity. Most fishermen know quite weU that the Pike is often ready to take both perch and tench; and as for the gold-fish, there can be for Pike no more deadly bait. There are, however, circumstances under which, with care, Pike may be allowed companions while in confinement. The circumstances are these: If when a young Pike is first caught he is placed in an aquarium with other small fish also just caught, he seems to look upon them as companions of his misfortune, and will not touch them, at any rate for some days. Directly he begins to get very hungry, a strange fish should be placed in the tank, and he will, if the owner will stand far back, most likely immediately pick this one out from the rest. Please note
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