Evening star., 1935-08-22
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES Z. TRACEWELL.

II goldfishes In an indoor aquarium
are to be placed In an outdoor pool,
there is NO time better than right now,
when the weather Is still warm.
AS difficult as 1t may be for some per-
sons to grasp, in q comparatively few
weeks the outdoor air will be growing
distinctly cooler. In q few months the
afr will be cold.
And when Winter really sets in, which
will rot be many months of, air may
20 down to subzero temperatures, as 1t
did last Winter and the Winter before
that.
The goldfish Is q hardy creature, but
even 1t must have some time in which
to adjust itself to these rather drastic
changes.
Especially fishes kept for q time in
glass houses need to be placed outdoors
at time when there is not much fluctu-
alton Of water temperature.
Comparative SteadineSs OF tempera-
ture is the fact of the indoor aquarium.
This deprives the fishes Of the need for
making much adjustment for heat and
cold.
In the outdoors, however, this be-
comes a primary necessity. All fishes
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water they are in.
The favorite American pet fish-and
the goldfish still must be accorded that
rank-needs a period in which to get
acclimated to the outdoors again.
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It Is common practice for fish fanciers
who have succumbed to the lure Of the
tropical or exotic specimens TO keep,
nevertheless, q few goldfiShes in q tank,
out of sympathy with the days when
they were almost the only fishes kept
inside.
Yet such q fancier will find in time
that the goldfish has lost all its lure
for him.
Then the question Is what to do with
his own specimens.
Many tropical fish fanciers keep out
door pools solely for summering their
exotic specimens.
GuppieS, plates and many other pop
ular warm, fresh water fishes, whose
names are even in common speech now,
grow large and breed rapidly in outdoor
pools. Care must be taken, of course,
not to place this type of fish in the
outdoors until the water reaches 10
degrees minimum, below which 1t does
not go either day or night.
This means, of course that the out
door pool is not safe for exotic speci-
mems until at least June, and this year
1t was scarcely so at that date.
Fishes which might suffer at So de-
grees in an aquarium often show no
evidence of i'll at very much lower tenn
peratures in the pool. We have heard
of cases of undiminished health and
vigor in pools when the air temperature
went down to As degrees.
The goldfish does not mind, being q
fresh, cold water fish.
Even he, however, ought not to be
carelesSly thrown from water of one
temperature to water Of a distinctly diff
ferent degree.
He may survive, but It Is placing q
strain on his economy which is totally
unnecessary.
The unnecessary in life is important
There are magazines, for instance,
which are unnecessarily vulgar. A little
honest, Elizabethan vulgarity now and
then will hurt no one, but when vul-
garity Is thrown in gratis, as 1t were,
for no good rhyme or reason, it becomes
unnecessary and, as such, of a distinctly
offensive type.
is-well, unnecessary.
1t is wholly unnecessary for any one
to force an aquarium or pool fish to
undergo violent changes in water tenn
perature suddenly. If this change Is