. Goldfish breeds and other aquarium fishes, their care and propagation; a guide to freshwater and marine aquaria, their fauna, flora and management. Aquariums; Goldfish. SOME FRESHWATER AQUARIUM FISHES Red-bellied Bream and Crappie. All will survive in the aquarium, and those enumerated occur in the Delaware River. The Chastodon is an especial favorite with aquariists on account of its beautiful markings and lively habits. The sunfish should be occasionally fed with live food, flies, worms, etc. THE AMERICAN DACE . The Black-nosed Dace, Rhinichthys cataracts. Fig. 39, is a native of all swift
. Goldfish breeds and other aquarium fishes, their care and propagation; a guide to freshwater and marine aquaria, their fauna, flora and management. Aquariums; Goldfish. SOME FRESHWATER AQUARIUM FISHES Red-bellied Bream and Crappie. All will survive in the aquarium, and those enumerated occur in the Delaware River. The Chastodon is an especial favorite with aquariists on account of its beautiful markings and lively habits. The sunfish should be occasionally fed with live food, flies, worms, etc. THE AMERICAN DACE . The Black-nosed Dace, Rhinichthys cataracts. Fig. 39, is a native of all swift-running streams, preferably those of cold water. There are two varieties most generally distributed which usually inhabit the same streams and rivulets. The Black-nosed Dace, the most abundant form in the valley of the Delaware, is easily distinguished by the black line extending from the. FIG. 39—Black-nosed Dace, Rhinichthys cataracta snout along the sides to the tail. It is most remarkably rapid in its movements and in the aquarium is a veritable finny jester. Its movements are so rapid and erratic that it appears like a silvery streak as it darts about in bewilder- ing confusion. In every way it is entirely harmless and may be kept with goldfishes, especially with the fine breeds of sluggish habits, to whom it is of direct benefit in agitating the water. The spawning season begins early in June, when both the male and the female take to nest-making in some rapid running brook or trout stream, the clearing sometimes being over two feet in diameter. All waste-materials are carefully removed and when the spawn has been deposited it is cover- ed with clean pebbles which the fishes bring down stream in their mouths, the alternate deposits of spawn and pebbles often forming mounds eight inches high. This is done not only to protect the young from enemies, but also to prevent the eggs from washing away in the rapid flowing streams. The dace will thrive on the usual goldfish foo
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