Sorting and Selecting the Fish 



The goldfish varieties are very unstable, and exhibit a strong tendency to revert to the more 

 primitive type and to show peculiarities of form and color that the culturists strive to keep in 

 abeyance. This is particularly the case with the more recently developed varieties, and it is not 

 strange that many of their progeny are not like their parents, but resemble the immediate or remote 

 ancestors of the parents. 



TRANSFERRING GOLDFISH FRY FROM ONE POND TO ANOTHER. 



The pond being drawn down the young fish, concentrated in the circular depression, 

 are dipped out with a bowl and deposited in tubs 



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