. Goldfish breeds and other aquarium fishes, their care and propagation; a guide to freshwater and marine aquaria, their fauna, flora and management. Aquariums; Goldfish. FOOD AND FEEDING Natural Food. The live food consists of the following Crus- tacean denizens of still water ditches, ponds and streams, which are classified as follows: Phyllopoda. Entomostraca ^ Branchiopoda. Cladocera. Ostrocoda. Copopoda. Crusta Malacostraca C Amphipoda. I Isopoda. (^ Decapoda. Entomostraca. This sub-class of the Crustaceans are simple organ- isms usually of small, often microscopic size. Order Phyllopoda.
. Goldfish breeds and other aquarium fishes, their care and propagation; a guide to freshwater and marine aquaria, their fauna, flora and management. Aquariums; Goldfish. FOOD AND FEEDING Natural Food. The live food consists of the following Crus- tacean denizens of still water ditches, ponds and streams, which are classified as follows: Phyllopoda. Entomostraca ^ Branchiopoda. Cladocera. Ostrocoda. Copopoda. Crusta Malacostraca C Amphipoda. I Isopoda. (^ Decapoda. Entomostraca. This sub-class of the Crustaceans are simple organ- isms usually of small, often microscopic size. Order Phyllopoda. Body segmented, covered with a carapace, swimming feet with branchial sacs, man- dables without feelers, and reduced maxillse. Sub-order Branchiopoda. Body distinctly segmental, numerous pairs of swimming feet, shieldshaped carapace, heart an elongated dorsal vessel with numerous pairs of ostia. Branchipus Stagnalis. Fig. 64. This freshwater Crustacean,known as the Spring-time shrimp, reaches a length of to 2 centimeters. The body is covered with a segmental mantle, the head is large and the abdomen furnished with caudal appendages. It has eleven pairs of legs, furnished with breathing and swimming hairs, two pairs of antennae, and a lengthened caudal appendage with swimming bristles. The crablike eyes are large and distinct. The almost transparent body is of bluish-green color on the back, the head, sides of the abdomen and the swimming bristles yellow, the antennte and caudal appendages red, and the eyes black. Its food consists of tiny water animalculae and algae, but it will attack spawn and young fishes. It usually swims on its back and is FIG. 64. Branchipus "^''^'' ^^ 'â ^^^' ^^^ movement is eratic, either by quick stagnalis. Greatly enlarged, strokes of the legs or by Springs in the water by means of a rapid movement of the abdomen. A good food for adult goldfishes, and other freshwater fishes. Apus Cancriformus. Fig. 65. This freshwater Crustacean may occur
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