Domesticated trout by Stone Livingston 1836-1912

Author:Stone, Livingston, 1836-1912. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Fish culture, Trout. [from old catalog]
Publisher: Charlestown, N. H., For sale at the Cold spring trout ponds
Published: 1896-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

3. Provide a suitable place for the young fry when they begin to feed. We remarked that the hatching troughs would do very well for the young trout for the first few weeks after feeding. This is true, if the fish are thinned out sufficiently, and a clean layer of gravel or sand put over the winter hatching bed ; but the hatching troughs are not favorable to growth, and usually are not so convenient for feeding as other places in which the fish might be kept. It is therefore

desirable to change them before summer, and it is very important to put them in a suitable place when they are changed ; and to effect this the following points should be secured, namely : —

The young trout, when removed from the hatching troughs, should be kept, —

Where they will feed well.

Where they will be safe from their natural enemies.

Where nothing can get in and nothing can get out.

Where no fungus can come to them.

Where the water cannot run over.

Where they cannot remain permanently out of sight.

Where the water supply cannot be cut off by accident.

Where the fish can have new, unused water.

Where they can find shade.

Where there is plenty of room.

The first six points were fully unfolded in the chapter on rearing boxes; so I will here simply refer the reader to that chapter, and pass on to the consideration of the remaining points.

It is essential that the young fry be kept where there is no possibility of the water supply being cut off, even by the most unexpected accident. It is \h^ possibility that you want to guard against, not the probability. My excuse for mentioning so obvious a principle is, that persons are so careless about this very thing. Though they may have expended hundreds of dollars to get their fish where they are, and have taken pains to have everything else safe, they will sometimes leave a faucet or a spout in such a way that it is quite possible for some accident to close the faucet or mis-

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