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Fish-Carrying Case. A box similar to illustration, built to hold the 

 standard straight-side candy jar is a great convenience in carrying fishes 

 for short distances. It may safely be used for tropicals in moderately cold 

 weather if the jar is completely wrapped in several thicknesses of news- 

 paper before placing in box, provided the 

 exposure is not unreasonably long. Many 

 of these cases are in use. The height is 14 

 inches. 



Feeding Rings. Many aquarists pre- 

 fer training their fishes to look for food at 

 a certain place in the aquarium. One way 

 of doing this is by use of a feeding ring, in 

 which floating food is placed. It has the 

 advantage of confining the food to one 

 spot, and that when it sinks it can be over a 

 cleared space where it will easily be found 

 Telescopic-eyed goldfishes are nearsighted, 

 and a feeding ring helps them locate the 

 food. It must in truth be said that such 

 fishes find their food largely by the sense of 

 smell, and that they will, in nearly all cases, eventually locate it, but 

 they come to it with more certainty, having learned the use of the ring. 



Fig. 107. Carrying Case 



Fig. 108. Glass Feeding Ring, with Food Floating In It 



The illustrated subject is three inches in diameter, and is made of 

 bent glass tubing. Sold by the dealers in aquarium specialties. They 

 may be made from a piece of cork, with a large hole cut in the centre. 

 After the cork becomes partially water-logged one can sow grass seeds 

 on it. When the grass has become about an inch high the cork is turned 

 upside down so the fish can enjoy themselves nibbling it off. 



