Judging from recent, correspondence in' the "North-China Daily "News," the question of how to keen goldfish is one that has been di forbing the minds of many people in Shanghai. It must be supposed that when titis question is asked it jis meant, how to keep goldfish alive jand healthy in bowls indoors, for in the case of goldfish in outdoor artificial ponds, and even in tanks for Soochow tubs, it is an easy enough matter. Provided there are 'a certain amount of water weeds plants, and the fish are not, over-crowded and are Left more or less undisturbed, they need no! looking after, but will live on indefinitely, thrive and breed. Food, such as mosquito larve and other minute aquatic insects and animals will generate and keep the fish well fed. If it is desived to breed fancy fish, then much more care must be taken, and an extra supply of food given. The Ohinese and Japanese are past masters at this. But presumably the keepers of goldfish who write to the papers. in Shanghsi have no such ambitions as. thi they merely want to keep a few. fish in a bowl in one or other of their rooms, more as pets than any thing else.
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