Title: Aquatic life
Identifier: aquaticlife319171918baus (find matches)
Year: 1917-1918 (1910s)
Authors: Bausman, Joseph E
Subjects: Aquariums; Fish culture
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. E. Bausman
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
A Japanese MetKod of Breeding the GoldfisK EIICHIRO NAKASHIMA ——^»
Text Appearing After Image:
JAPANESE BROADTAIL ORANDA OWNED BY FRANKLIN BARRETT Propagating- goldfish by "stripping" or artificial expression, that is, forcibly pressing the eggs and milt from the par- ent fishes, has been practiced successfully for several years by Japanese goldfish breeders. More than 80 per centum of the eggs are fertile. Usually it is only the rare and high-priced fishes that are handled in this manner. The parent fish should be selected among those from three to five years old, and should be well formed and perfectly healthy. These should be kept separately. and from the end of autumn fed good, nourishing food, such as ground shrimp mixed with boiled corn meal, or worms, etc. The breeding season depends upon the climate, weather, water, temperature and other conditions. When the season has so far advanced that the water tem- perature is uniformly more than 60 de- grees, Fahrenheit, spawning commences. Whether or not the fish are ripe can be ascertained by a slight pressure on the abdomen, or by the actions of the male

Note About Images