Evening star., 1946-05-20
Readers Clearing House

the female is plain. Put your fish
in the tank. feed them once a day,
all the food they will eat in FIVE
MINUTES. This is important, as
overfeeding will cause the water to
sour and kill your fish. Purchase
your food from the pet shop, not
from the dime" store. When the
young are born remove the parents
to another tank. 1t is advisable to
keep fish together only if they are
equal in size, as the larger fish might
make a meal of the smaller. Feed
the young brine shrimp (brine
shrimp eggs may be bought at the
pet shop with complete instructions
for hatching) and dust fine fish food
three times day. remembering not
to put too much food in at time.
When the young grow enough. feed
them the same as the parents.
(From Mrs. !. S., Vienna, Val
In answer to Mrs. E. B. c., WASH
ington, I am just an amateur but will
try to give you some information
about guppies. I would like to hear
others experiences with them and
also with other kinds of tropical fish
which would be easy to raise, as
am planning to buy some in few
months.
Having several females, I do not
know exactly how often each one has
little ones, but it must be quite often.
The baby guppies have to be re-
moved or else the adults will eat
them. I use a tropical fish food
and sift some through a fine mesh
tea strainer for the little ones and
then feed the adults the balance
that is left in the strainer. They all
should be fed once a day not more
than they will eat in about Is min
utes. Too much feed will sour the
water.
If you keep snails, the water has
to be changed only when it becomes
very murky. Perhaps you will notice
your snails multiplying also If the
water is not changed too often. The
little Snails look like small dots to
begin with.
You should have sand or small
gravel on the bottom of your aqua
rum, and growing plants are good
for the health of the fish, too. DO not
let your aquarium have more than
an hours direct sun every day. A
light glass cover raised slightly for
air will keep dust from the water.
When adding water to replace that
lost from evaporation, let it stand
in a bottle for about a half hour so
that it will be the same temperature
as that in the bowl.
DANISH PASTRY?
From Mrs. J. M. S., Laurel, Md
Please help me by asking some of
your readers for a recipe for Danish
pastry.
THANK YOU" NOTE.
From Mrs. M. R. B., Mount
Rainier, Nd
Re playpen problem. Thanks to
E. G. c., Greenbelt, Md, for her
helpful suggestions regarding the
playpen problem. I am following
her advice, but find baby still has
fear of the vastness above her, even
though I'm sitting down next to her.
Temporarily I will abandon the idea,
then start from scratch In a week or
so.
CONSERVATION" COOKIE.
From Mrs. C. E. S., Bethesdd.)
For the benefit of Mrs. ]. A. S..
and any one else who in these con-
servation days is interested in a
delicious cookie that takes almost
no fat or wheat, repeat the recipe
for Lace Waters which came to me
originally through this column.
Two tablespoons shortening, l cup
sugar, tablespoon flour, eggs, u
teaspoon salt, u teaspoon nutmeg,
2h cups oatmeal, 21A teaspoons
baking powder, l teaspoon va
nilla. Cream shortening and
sugar. Add beaten egg. Mix salt,
nutmeg, oatmeal, flour and baking
powder and add to first mixture.
Mix well. Add vanilla Drop by tea
spoonful on creased cookie sheet
about inches apart as they spread
while baking. Bake at $50 degrees,
IL to Is minutes, or until lightly
Drowned. Remove at once with spa
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