. Goldfish breeds and other aquarium fishes, their care and propagation; a guide to freshwater and marine aquaria, their fauna, flora and management. Aquariums; Goldfish. THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOLDFISH successful season, should produce many thousands of goldfishes of both the common and the highly prized Oriental breeds, for which there would always be a constant and remunerative demand. The Paradise Fish, Ide and Tench could also be cultivated. Pond Aquaria. Vol. VII of the Bulletins of the U. S. Fish Com- mission, 1887, gives two excellent suggestions for pond aquaria which are here reprodu
. Goldfish breeds and other aquarium fishes, their care and propagation; a guide to freshwater and marine aquaria, their fauna, flora and management. Aquariums; Goldfish. THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOLDFISH successful season, should produce many thousands of goldfishes of both the common and the highly prized Oriental breeds, for which there would always be a constant and remunerative demand. The Paradise Fish, Ide and Tench could also be cultivated. Pond Aquaria. Vol. VII of the Bulletins of the U. S. Fish Com- mission, 1887, gives two excellent suggestions for pond aquaria which are here reproduced and no better explanation can be given than to quote the accompanying article by Mr. Wm. P- Seal:— "With this idea in view I offer the following suggestion for the consideration of those in- terested in the establishment of large aquaria, hoping for further development through interchange of ideas. The plan or principle herein suggested might be termed not inaptly Pond-Aquaria, it being essentially a combination of the pond and the aquarium; the aquaria being constructed on the margin of the pond or reservoir used, as shown in the accompanying illustration. Fig. 61; the. Pond Aquaria. FIG. 61 Pond Aquarium. idea being to have a water-pen or pond-garden (A) extending back from each aquarium front, and to be surrounded by a wire or other fence or partition (B) of sufficiently small mesh to pre- vent the escape of the occupants, but large enough to allow the smaller fry, which would furnish them with food, to pass through freely. (C) represents the glass fronts. (D) the upper or perforated aquarium bottom, which allows the escape to a lower funnel-shaped bottom (E) of all sedimentary deposits. (F) represents rocky eminences containing pockets, in which could be planted aquatic vegetation at depths adapted to their needs. The whole creating a close ap- proximation of natural conditions. An arrangement of wire gates would keep fishes in close confinement for short periods
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