74 FISH CULTURE. 



animal matter, if reduced to sufficiently small dimen- 

 sions, forms food for them. 



Tn feeding young fish, care should be taken to 

 keep the bottom of the pond in which they are as 

 clean as possible ; as, if animal food is left in any 

 large quantity deposited upon the gravel, it will of 

 course putrify, and much damage the fish. 



A few of the little squillidae previously mentioned 

 turned into the ponds then will be found useful 

 in clearing up such matters, if no other means be 

 practicable. While yet in the boxes, you may 

 remove such refuse with the glass siphon which you 

 have used to suck up the eggs ; but this will be 

 found a somewhat tedious process. Still, no means 

 should be neglected which will tend to keep the water 

 pure and clean. Lean meat, cut very thin, boiled 

 well, and then macerated or pounded to a pulp, 

 makes good food, the small fibrous particles being of 

 the right size for the little fish to feed on. This 

 kind of food is recommended in Mr. Fry's work. 1 

 If live food, however, be required, he recommends a 

 variety of matters, as the flesh of coarse fish pounded 

 small ; and chiefly he advises that the ova of various 

 of these fish should be procured and hatched, as the 



1 Published in New York, being chiefly a translation from the 

 French. 



