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Title: The complete aquarium book; the care and breeding of goldfish and tropical fishes
Identifier: completeaquarium00inne (find matches)
Year: 1936 (1930s)
Authors: Innes, William T. (William Thornton), 1874-1969
Subjects: Aquariums; Goldfish
Publisher: New York, Halcyon house
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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FISHFOOD 75 A beginner will do well to make the acquaintance of an experienced daphnia collector and go along with him on a trip. There are now aquarium societies in many of the large cities, part of their activities being the dissemination of such knowledge. All those interested should have active or corresponding membership in such an organization. All beginners seem to develop the idea that sufficient daphnia to feed with can be raised in a tub or trough. This has been tried many times, but seldom with any degree of success. If the daphnia pools are too distant to make collecting practicable it is best to try to inoculate some suitable pond nearby, but there should be no fish in the pond. Daphnia, if not crowded, may be shipped quite a distance. The practical way to raise daphnia for food purposes is described in the chapter on Wholesale Breeding (page 217). A Method of Carrying Live Food growing in favor is to crate them (without water) in layers in a tin box. Frames about 10 x 12 inches, made of Ji-'m. square wood, are covered on one side with thin muslin. These are floated, the daphnia dropped in, spread out evenly while the raft is floating, then carefully lifted and placed in carrying box, which,
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Fig. 59. Carrying Case and Live-Food Trays of course, needs to be airtight. The number of layers is only limited by the depth of the box. Daphnia may be spread to a depth of about J^-inch, but mosquito larvae may be piled to )4-inch without injury. This method avoids carrying the great weight of water needed in collecting pails, and, in the experience of the writer, gets a higher percentage of the food home alive. If spread out thinly and in a cool temperature in October they have been kept alive in a moist condition on the rafts in storage for two days. The only disadvantage is the chance that the rafts,

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