CONTENTS 



PAGE 



List of illustrations 5 



Introduction 7 



I — General Aspects of Goldfish Culture i\ 



.1 \pa\ 9 



Importance of the goldfish i i the Japanese 



people 9 



i Irigin of the goldfish and it- culture in Japan 11 



Centers of the industry 12 



II — Japanese Goldfish Breeds 15 



The Wild Fish IS 



Evolution of the Varieties 17 



Tlu- VVakin 21 



The Ryukin 24 



The Ranchu 28 



The Oranda Shishigashira 32 



The Demekin 35 



The Detne-Ranchu 38 



The Watonai 39 



The Shukin 40 



The Shubunkin 42 



The Kinranshi 43 



Til — Goldfish Breeding Establishments and 

 Their General Eqi ipment and Man- 

 agement 45 



Goldfish farms 45 



General principle- of breeding 48 



The ponds and the water supply 49 



IV — The Parent Fish, tiik Egg-Laying, and 



the Hatching 53 



The care, selection, and matins of the br I 



fish 53 



The spawning pond- and their preparation • • 55 



The eggs, their care and development • • ■ ■ 57 



V — Food, Growth, and Care of tiik Fish ... id 



Living crustacean food and its cultivation . . 61 



Other food- and their preparation .... 65 



Care of the young fish 67 



Growth and color changes 77 



Sorting and selecting the fish 73 



Transportation of goldfish 79 



VI — Diseases and Fatalities of Eggs and Fish S3 



YI1 — The Standards of Quality wd tiik Trade 



in Goldfish 87 



Fashions, criteria, and exhibitions 87 



Sales and prices 90 



YIII — Japanese (ion. fish in America 93 



Historical and other note- 93 



Goldfish culture for profit 95 



Suggestions for maintaining goldfish aquaria 



in the home, school, and office 97 



Literature cited . . 105 



Index 107 



