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Title: The Aquarium bulletin
Identifier: aquariumbulletin1917broo (find matches)
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Brooklyn Aquarium Society, Inc
Subjects: Aquariums; Aquarium fishes
Publisher: Brooklyn, N. Y. : Brooklyn Aquarium Society, Inc.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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12 THE AQUARIUM BULLETIN and forth at the front of the aquarium. The best food for these tishes is large daphnia, mosquito larvae, all kinds of bugs and water insects, earth- worms and enchytraen. The Scalane does not like to pick food off the bottom of the aquarium unless very hungry; they prefer to get it while it is dropping, floating or swimming around. They are on very rare occasions inclined to tight and some- times fly around the tank at a ferocious speed ending up with a fierce impact against the sides or more darkly colored than in the female. Eyes mostly a deep red color, but on some specimens pale red or yellow. The threadlike extensions to the u)»per and lower ends of the tail are considerably longer, but very readily damaged as they are delicate and easily buckled. The front edge of the feelers of the young males are bordered in red, have stronger and sharper serrations than those of the female. The forehead, especially in the old fishes is arched considerably. The female fish has tranverse bands
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covering of the aquarium. But this happens very seldom and they do not injure themselves as a rule. The male fish is more pale in color with less distinct transverse black stripes, but the stripe passing through the head is a deep black. Dorsal fins are narrow, run out to a more acute point than those of the female. These fins, especially in the young fishes, are bordered in a gleaming red color, so are also the long drawnout ventral fins. The extensions, often very long, (mostly in older fishes) branch out at ends of dorsal and ventral fins and are of a dee() velvety black color, breast an iridescent green, abdomen a lighter color. Dorsal fin extends broadly, in older fishes up to one inch wide and also of the same deep black marking. Feelers much shorter than those of the male. Abdomen broad and full, with a greater distance between the ventral and pectoral fins. Generally speaking the female is much more beautifully colored than the male, a rare occurence in fish. These distinguishing features can- not always be depended upon. The very changeable coloring, the more or

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