A_crazo for keeping tropical fsh gradually sweeping across Shang hal' with the force of an epidemic, This is especially among the Chinese community, who love to. ieeep the strange fish, "some with the "most gorgeous colourings, which Alt. fand out of coral reefs and sparkle In the blue waters of the Paci, 'Along with the ten sea-horses, which arrived In special tanks fitted' to the s. Scharnhorst a week ago, travelled fa selection of blue" Xing-fish, sen dragons, clown fish, puffer fish and The blue king-fish, also an inhabit fant of the coral reefs, isa most beautiful creature" with exquisite colouring. This particular type of fish costs $60 each. The sea dragon resembles the sea horse as far His head is concerned, the remainder of its body being wormeshaped. The clown fish is gaily coloured in the familiar colours of a clown's costume, The puffer sh is most extras ordinary, Its habit is to. swell several times its normal size on the approach of an enemy. The larger Aish, who hopes to swallow his prey ft one ulp, has several attempts before he "discovers that it is too large to enter his jaws. The fish diminishes to its normal size when the danger of being swallowed past. Keepers of this fish may Obtain the unusual delight of holding them, and watching their strange transformation, The unicorn fish has a single horn on the end of its snout in the same style as, the mythical four-footed east. from which It takes ite name, All of these fish their natural surroundings. But outshining them in the beauly of {ts colouring is the neon tetra Ash, algo. on its first visit to the Orient, which is a fresh-water fsh found in South "America, These fish were Giscovered only a short time ago by 1 French explorer.
He was so intrigued by the tiny creatures, less than an inch tong, with their colouring of red and blue that he organized an expedition to bring back more specimens for eager aquarists on the continent, 'The oxpedition crossed the wAtlaniie by the Hindenburg, and the—specimens which they "brought back were quickly sold in all European countries, "Three pairs of these Ash, named after the' sparkling neon lights because of their beautiful colouring, were sent out to China. One pair died en route, one has been sold—and one is left,
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