. Goldfish varieties and tropical aquarium fishes; a complete guide to aquaria and related subjects. ver, that the past few years has witnessed a gratifyingdevelopment of general interest in the better aquaria and fancy fishes ofall kinds. THE SCALELESS VEILTAIL TELESCOPE While it is true that some of the early Chinese scaleless importationshad broad tails and medium length bodies, it is highly probable that noneof them equaled in short bodies and long fins the present American stand-ard type. We crossed Japanese Fringetails wnth scaleless Chinese Tele-scopes, thereby producing two new varieti
. Goldfish varieties and tropical aquarium fishes; a complete guide to aquaria and related subjects. ver, that the past few years has witnessed a gratifyingdevelopment of general interest in the better aquaria and fancy fishes ofall kinds. THE SCALELESS VEILTAIL TELESCOPE While it is true that some of the early Chinese scaleless importationshad broad tails and medium length bodies, it is highly probable that noneof them equaled in short bodies and long fins the present American stand-ard type. We crossed Japanese Fringetails wnth scaleless Chinese Tele-scopes, thereby producing two new varieties which have become permanent—Scaleless Japanese Fringetails and Scaleless Veiltail Telescopes. Bothhave been bred for broad-tail qualities (veiltail), and may be consideredan American variation. The characteristic points of the .Scaleless Veil-tail Telescopes are the same as those for the body and fin formation of theJapanese Fringetail and the eyes and coloring of the Chinese coloring almost always tried for is calico, but if a fish fails in this and 32 GOLDFISH VARIETIES AITD. Perfect Calico Veiltail Telescope still retains the other characteristics of the breed, it is considered a goodfish. A perfect caHco veiltail telescope is the acme of perfection whichmost American breeders have in mind as their highest goal. THE CHINESE CELESTIAL TELESCOPE GOLDFISH For a long time an erroneous belief existed that the peculiar eyes ofthe celestial goldfish are produced by placing the young in jars whichwere lighted only from a small slit in the top. Although this variety isdifficult to breed, it has been done several times in the United States. Nopeculiar contrivances of any kind were used. At the usual period ofabout ten weeks they developed ordinary telescope eyes in the regular they gradually turned towards the top of the head as shown inFigs. 18 and 39. If any such peculiarity had been produced by mechanical means, itwould not be reproduced in the offsprin
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