The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-11-29
FISH IN AQUARIA.
The United States Fish Commission Tell
How to Feed Them.


How to Feed Them.
In feeding the fish care must be taken
to introduce no more food than they
can eat in short time, as what is not
eaten will soon decOmpose and make
the water cloudy, and generate nox-
iOus gases as we'll. If due care is OBJ
served in regard to quantity it does
not matter how often fish are fed ex-
cept that if fed abundantly they will
grow rapidly. which is not generally
desired. Fish may be fed every day,
or but two or three times week, with
equally good results apparently. They
will always find small amount of food
in the aquarium in the vegetation.
Where they are not fed sufficiently
they are apt to strip the plants of their
leaves. In natural condition fish are
feeding continually and grow very
rapidly. The water food which is uni
versally sold for goldfish and other
vegetable-feeding fishes is good,
nutritious food. Bread, cake and
cracker sour more quickly, and are
therefore somewhat Objectionable un-
less carefully used. Most fish, even
those supposed to be strict vegetarians,
are fond of raw beef. 1t should be
scraped to get the pulp free from mus
cular fiber, or chopped very fine. Lean
beef, unsalted, may be dried quite hard
and can then be scraped quite fine. 1t
soon softens in the water, but does not
give off the blood as when raw. The
fish, however, prgfer it raw. Ants
eggs are excellent food. They can be
generally bought at bird stores. Oys-
tiers and CLANS, well washed to get rid
of the juices and chopped fine, are en-
joyed by most fishes. Worms. chopped
fine for small fish, are enjoyed most of
all. All chance of communicating the
water in feeding the fish may be
avoided by having an ordinary con-
fectionery or other jar into which the
food may be dropped after placing it
insthe aquarium. The fish will soon
find their way into it. Many of our
common brook and pond fishes will eat
animal food only, ard some of them
only living things. Among such are
the various sunfshes, sticklebacks, etc.
They are perhaps more lively and in
teresting in their habits than the
more peace-loving vegetarians, the
goldfish and others of the cyprind@,
but there is more difficulty in finding
food for them. A small scoop-net made
with cheese cloth and used in almost
any quiet water among the dead leaves
will often yield large numbers of insect
larvae small crustaceans, which afford
them natural and needed food.-Bulle-
tin United States Fish Commission.
There is good deal of truth and
philosophy in the remark made by
wit when he heard of the divorce of
couple recently married, II am glad
they married each other, for if they
had each married somsoody else there
would have been two unfortunate
couples instead of one"
INDUSTRY n7GKes.a man a purse.
and carelessness gives him strings to
It. He that has it needs only to draw
the strings as carefulness directs, and
he will always find useful penny at
the bottom of it.
When once a concealment or de-
celt has been practiced in matters
where all should be fair and open as
the day. confidence can never be re-
stored, no more than you can restore
the white bloom to the grape or plum
that you have once pressed in your
hands