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Title: Goldfish breeds and other aquarium fishes, their care and propagation : a guide to freshwater and marine aquaria, their fauna, flora and management. With 280 explanatory illustrations, printed with the text
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Wolf, Herman Theodore, 1855-
Subjects: Aquariums Goldfish
Publisher: Philadelphia : Innes & sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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IG. 45—Young Crusian Carp, Carassius carassius /• mnleS C Plbelio C oblongus and C. humi/is, all variations produced by domestication, selectionand breeding. Small specimens of all the Carp breeds make interesting aquariumfishes. In 1877, and f°r some years thereafter, attempts weremade to generally introduce the Scaled and Leather Carp in the UnitedStates, as their easy propagation recommended them for regions remotefrom a supply of better-flavored fishes, but the results were not satisfac-tory and in the past years the attempt has been abandoned. The introductionof carp into many streams is now forbidden by acts of state legislation. All carp will excavate the banks of ponds in search for food whichconsists of the tender shoots and roots of aquatic plants and the tiny ento-mostraca and insects of fresh water, for which it burrows into the mudand the banks of streams and ponds. In the aquarium it will thrive ongoldfish foods. The carp is destructive to the spawn of other fishes.
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THE TESSELLATED DARTER The Tessellated Darter, Boleosoma nigrum ohmstedi, Fig. 46 is a mostsingular and beautifully marked small fish of belligerent habits. Thename is derived from its habit of lying motionless on the bottom of clearstreams and suddenly springing upon its prey with marvelous rapidity.In the aquarium it is best kept with such freshwater fishes as are able to 80 SOME FRESHWATER AQUARIUM FISHES take care of themselves, like the sunfish, catfish, tiny eels, the young of thespiny-rayed fishes, etc.; and should be fed on small live food and boiledcereals.

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