126 GOLDFISH VARIETIES AND 
once daily all the flies they can consume which will be found to be a 
considerable number. In winter when flies are scarce they may be fed 
on meal worms and meal bugs, which are easily cultivated in bran flour, 
once a small stock is started. Particular care should be taken not to 
allow any of the meal breeding stock to escape into the house, as it is 
liable to become a pest in the kitchen. 
Newts and salamanders are fed on bits of meat, fish, oysters, fish 
eggs and worms. 
Snakes and lizards require large and small insects, worms, small live 
fish and animals. 
Alligators and carnivorous turtles want live fish, tadpoles, crayfish, 
small animals. In the absence of living food they can sometimes be in- 
duced to take chopped oysters, fish, etc. 
Box tortoises and land turtles are largely vegetarians and should be 
supplied with berries, garden vegetables, mushrooms, cooked cereals, 
snails and worms. 
As with the aquarium, particular care should be exercised not to 
allow any excess of food which is liable to decay, all such surplus being 
removed immediately after the feeding hour. 
