First Batch of Ten Arrive in Scharnhorst Their nostrils almost snorting with pride, a rollicking trio of live sea-horses "greeted a" North- China Herald" reporter with a flourish. of their tails in a_pet store situated in Bubbling Well Road on June 22. They were part of the firet batch of ten live sea-horses which arrived at the store a few days ago. 'They are be-Tieved to be the first live sea-horses over to reach the Far East. Until a few months ago, it was not known what these strange creatures of the sea, found in the coral reefs in the Pacific, lived on, A. keen aquarist the' United Staies then found that their diet was microbes, a small fish known as a "guppy," and other Aiminutive inhabitants of the sea.
Three attempts have been mode fo import this strange commodity into China, The first was made two months ago, special tanka and pumping apparatus having been provided by the store fo the vessel which was fo make the precarious attempt, Both "the first and second attempts were failures however, but on this the third attempt the whole batch of ten were as much alive and kicking at the end of the journey as when they loft their familiar Pacific haunts, They are selling for no. less" than $50 aplece—and four out of the ten have been carried away by trlumphant purchasers within a week.
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