Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-01-11

tention to individual fishes, such as
fishes in good health but blind ALL
ing, sensitive or languid fishes are in
| duced if possible 70 eat suitable food
in sufficient quantity to keep up their
strength and bring them into a state
of health and contentment 1t might
| not be that the men who had the well
fare of the fishes at heart would feel
toward them, as to their feeding as a
mother does toward her children, but
their feeding would in some respects
resemble it.
So far as the fishes are concerned
there are some at least that get about
the same care that children would.
Take for instance, at the aquarium,
that ugly creature, the green moray,
comonly called the sea serpent. The
green moray is seven feet long, plenty
big enough to keep itself, which, how
ever, it practically never does. The big
baby has had it's food put into its
mouth for it since the day it came into
the aquarium, now more than four
months ago. But nobody objects to
feeding it in that way; in fact, they
are mighty glad to feed it so, if that's
the way the serpent wants to be fed.
All they ask of the serpent is that it
will eat in some way. The green mo-
ray is fed mostly on Goldfish and her.
ring, this food being cut into strips or
convenient size for it to take into it's
mouth and to swallow. A piece of this
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end of a slender wooden rod, which is
then thrust down under the surface,
the tip with the food upon it being
moved gently about in the water. II
the serpent is hungry it rears its head
and raises, like name, its long dorsaI
fin, which extends the length of its
body. If it is hungry it rears its head
and rises to the food with It's big, deep
jawed mouth open, and into the open
mouth the food is put, being gently
disengaged from the end of the stick
upon which it was carried down to it.
The strip may be placed crosswise on
the moray's jaws, and extended n lit
tie on either side, so that it will be less
likely to spill it out, and sometimes 1t
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resting lengthwise in the cavity of tho
lower jaw. 1t is always placed in the
mouth in some way.
Then the serpent may swallow 1t,
and eat in succession two, three, half
a dozen pieces; il may be that he
doesn't eat any; that he just holds the
first piece in his mouth, few seconds
or ho1 n mil and fhon OF ~ fol
out, to drop on the bottom of the
tank. While he eats more on some
days than on others, on some days he
eats nothing at all. Sometimes when
he won't eat at one hour he will at
another. On days when he hasn't been
eating well, or perhaps has eaten moth
ing the last thing done at night, al
ways by the man under whose special
care the sea serpent falls, is to go
around and hand him down the best
piece of Goldfish III the aquarium, and
to give him a chance OF getting bite
of something to eat if he wants it.
The green moray just now is eating
very well. The size of the peices fed
to him has been gradually increased
until those now fed are twice as big as
the pieces fed originally The serpent
does not apparently note the differ
ence; but now, when he will eat only
one piece he is really taking in that as
much nutriment as he formerly took
in eating two pieces. This might
seem to some folks like playing it on
the sea serpent just a little bit, but it
is done for the serpent's good.-New
York Sun.