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A New Method to Promote the 

 Growth of Goldfish 



By WM. L. PAULLIX 



It is very often a difficult matter to 

 get a young goldfish to grow. This can 

 be very easily overcome by a method I 

 have used for several years, a method 

 which is also good for young tropical 

 fish. Often you will find among your 

 hatching one or two young fish that 

 will not grow, no matter how much you 

 feed them. 1 take each of these fish and 

 place it in a glass jar holding one gallon 

 of water. I feed them every day on live 

 daphnia, always giving enough at a 

 feeding to last during the day, and keep- 

 ing the temperature of the water about 

 75° Fahrenheit. You will be surprised 

 to find in a short time that the one gal- 

 lon jar is too small for the fish. I in- 

 crease the size of the jars once a month, 

 one gallon at a time, until I am using a 

 five gallon jar. At that time 1 have a 

 fish that will pass for a three year old. 



Fisherman's Stag 



The Chicago Fish Fancier's Club will 

 attend a Fisherman's Stag at the Ham- 

 ilton Club of Chicago, on Saturday Eve., 

 January 17th. 



J. W. Gage, Editor of "The Aqua- 

 rium," will speak, taking the subject of 

 Fish from an Aquarist's Viewpoint. 



Noted Woman Painter of Fish Life 

 Dies 



Mrs. Nellie Burrell Scott Exhibit for Panama Fair. 



Mrs. Nellie Burrell Scott, who won in- 

 ternational fame as a painter of fish life, 

 died in San Francisco, November 17th, 

 from a complication of diseases. Exhi- 

 bitions of Mrs. Scott's canvases have 



been made in every state in the Union, 

 and one of the features of the art ex- 

 hibit of the Panama- Pacific Exposition 

 will be a collection of her paintings. 



Hints on Paradise Fish 



By HOWARD S. CREES, Phihidelphia. 



Paradise fish, if in a healthy aquarium, 

 will stand for a short period a very low 

 temperature — say 40 degrees Fahren- 

 heit. Exposure to so low a temperature 

 for more than a day, however, would 

 probably prove fatal. I saw fish of this 

 species kept all last winter in water 

 ranging in temperature from 50 to 60 

 degrees, but this is not advisable. In 

 this particular instance there were very 

 few fish and an abundance of plant life. 

 Different persons have different experi- 

 ences with the same kinds of fish, but 

 from my own general observations I 

 should say that it is not the best policy 

 to attempt to keep Paradise fish, in the 

 winter, in a temperature lower than (35 

 degrees or higher than 75 degrees. When 

 the temperature gets above 75 degrees 

 the fish are liable to start breeding, 

 and unless one has special facilities for 

 the rearing of the young, they will all be 

 lost except those hatched in June, July 

 and August. 



When any of these tropical fish show 

 the earliest signs of being afflicted by 

 fungus they should at once be treated 

 with mild salt water or some other rem- 

 edy. Fungus diseases, when they once 

 attack these fish, develop with surpris- 

 ing and distressing rapidity. 



If a man never deals with you it may 

 be his fault; but if he deals with you 

 once and does not continue it is your 

 fault. 



