TEOPICAL AQUARIUM FISHES 



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Fig. 18. The Chinkse Celestial 



The Celestial Telescope is the most difficult of the imported gold- 

 fishes to rear or to keep alive in the aquarium. 



THE JAPANESE BARNACLED GOLDFISH 



Barnacled goldfishes are so rare that the majority of leading fan- 

 ciers have never seen them. They vi^ere first imported from Japan in 

 1897, soon disappearing from viev^'. Although no new stock is known to 

 have been imported, the peculiar characteristic has recently made its 

 appearance again. Whether these fishes are inheriting from the original 

 imported stock, of whether they represent an independent "break," such 

 as the Japanese breeders utilized in starting the breed, it is impossible even 

 to surmise. The scales are raised sharply in the center, presenting regular 

 lines of dots along the sides of the fish. These should not be confounded 

 with fishes suffering from dropsy. In the latter case the scales stand from 

 the body at the outer edge. Otherwise the fish has the characteristics of 

 the telescope fish. 



