Er erhält dann regelmäßig sein Lieblingsfutter, einen Regenwurm, den er vin den Fingen wegnahm. Es tat uns leld, dass das Tierchen dazu verurteilt war, sein Leben allein zu fristen, aber alle Bemuhungen, ein Weibchen fur ihn zu erlangen, blieben erfoglos. Ich hatte meine Hoffnung auf Groches nachste Ruckkehr gesetzt, aber als dieser Anfang April 1906 von der Reise nach dem Niger weiderkam, brachte er nicht einen einzigen Fundulus mit; er erklarte, dass in dem Tumpel, in welchem er im Vojahre diesen Fundulus in grosserer Anzahl erbeutet
hatte, nich ein Exemplar diser Art zu sehen
gewesen ware, obgleich er das Gewasser nach
allen Richtungen hin durchucht habe; es seien
ihm nur Cichliden und Eleotris, sowie
ausgewachsene Haplocheilus sexfasciatus ins Netz gegangen.
Da die Moglichkein der Enrlangung
eines Weibchens nun wieder in weite Ferne geruckt
war, gesellte ich unserem "Mobbi" ein
grosses Paar Rivulus elegans zu, mit dem er sich
sehr gur vertrug; er teilte das Futter, welches
aus Regenwurmen, Wasserasseln, Kafer- und
Muckenlarven, fliegen und geschabtem rohen
Rindflesch bestand, mit ihnen und schlen sich
in ihrer Gesellschaft rech wohl zu fuhlen. So
verstrichen Monate; unser "Mobbi" war stets
vergnugt, frass tuchtig und hatte Ende Augusr
1906 eine Totallange von 9 1/2 cm erreicht. Da kam der K. und Siggelkowsche Import! Derselbe
brachte zwar diesen Fundulus in grosserer
Anzahl Exemplaren, die mir fur mein ausgegewachsenes Mannchen nichts nutzen konnten
zudem wollten K. und Siggelkow einzen Fische
nicht abegeben. Mit einem passenden Weibchen
fur unseren "Mobbi" was es alto wieder nichts!
Da ich dad Aquarium fur andere Zwecke dringend
benotigte, siedelte ich, Ende September 1906,
unseren Fundulus mit dem Rivulus in ein anderes
Becken uber, in welchem sich etwa funfzig erwachsene Haplocheilus panchax und deren Varietaten befanden.
Um die Haplocheilus kummerte
under "Mobbi" sich gar nicht, diese furchteten
sich in der ersten zeit sogar von ihm, auch bei
der Futterung kam er nicht zu kurz, denn sobald
er eine Bewgung machte, stob die ganze
Haplocheilus-Geselleschaft ausinander und er
konnte sich in Ruhe die fettesten Bissen aussuchen.
Als die Haplocheilus aber merkten dass
ihr neuer Genosse, trotz seiner Grosse, durchaus
harmlos und vertraglich war, wurden sie
dreister und liessen sich schllesslich durch seine
Anwesenheit nicht mehr storen, so dass ich bei
der Futterung spater stets eingreifen musste
um unserem "Mobbi" vor den gierigen Maulers der Haplocheilus seinen Teil zu sichern.
Während unser liebling bis dahin immer munter und zutraulich gewesen war, wurde er jetzt ruhig und
murrisch, immer seltener liess er sich sehen
und selbst zur Futterung verliess er sinen Platz
am Boden under einer starken Ludwigia nicht.
Dieser lethargische Zustand des Tierchens, in
dem ich nichts Gutes erblickte, gefiel uns durchaus
nicht; ich brachte daher unsern "Mobbi"
in einem anderen geraumigeren Becken ganz
allein unter, aber auch das anderte nichts an
dem Definden des Fisches. Eines Morgens,
Ende November 1906, fanden wir ihn tot im
Aquarium und zwar in einer Farbenpracht, die
er im leben nur bei ausserstem Wohlbehagen
gezeigt hatte. Wir traurten um das herrliche
Tierchen, an dessen Besitz wir uns so lange
erfrut hatten! Welcher Art mogen wohl die
Ursachen dieses langsamen Hinsiechens des Tierchens
Gewesen sein? Sollten sie vielleicht mit dem Geschlechtsleben dieser Fische in Zusammenhang stehen?
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He then regularly receives his favorite food, an earthworm, which he took from his fingers. It did not help us that the animal was doomed to eke out its own life, but all efforts to get a female for it were unsuccessful. I had set my hopes on Groche's next return, but when he returned from his trip to Niger in early April 1906, he did not bring a single Fundulus with him; He explained that in the pool in which he captured this Fundulus in large numbers in the previous year
hadn't seen a copy of this kind
would have been, although he was following the water
searched all directions; be it
him just Cichlids and Eleotris , as well
adult Haplocheilus sexfasciatus caught on.
Since the possibility of obtaining
of a female now moved into the distance again
I joined our "Mobbi"
great pair of Rivulus elegans with whom he is
very well tolerated; he shared the feed, which
from earthworms, water lice, beetle and
Mosquito larvae, flies and scraped raw
Rindflesch insisted with them and munched on
to feel good in their company. So
months passed; our "Mobbi" was always
happy, ate hard and had at the end of August
1906 reached a total length of 9 1/2 cm. Then came the K. and Siggelkow import! Same
Although brought this Fundulus in larger
Number of specimens that could not be of any use to my grown man
in addition, K. and Siggelkow wanted some fish
not surrendered. With a matching female
for our "Mobbi" there was nothing!
Since I have an aquarium for other purposes
needed, I settled at the end of September 1906,
our Fundulus with the Rivulus in another
Basin above, in which there were about fifty adult Haplocheilus panchax and their varieties.
The Haplocheilus took care of
under "Mobbi" not at all, they were afraid
in the first time even from him, also with
He didn't miss out on feeding, because soon
he made a movement, the whole puffed up
Haplocheilus society apart and he
was able to choose the fattest bites in peace.
But when the Haplocheilus realized that
her new comrade, in spite of his size, absolutely
was harmless and contractual, they became
bolder and finally let himself through his
Presence no longer bother me, so that I am with
the feeding always had to intervene later
to protect our "Mobbi" from the greedy mouths of the Haplocheilus .
While our darling had always been cheerful and trusting until then, he was now calm and
grumpy, he showed himself less and less
and even to feed he left his place
on the ground under a strong Ludwigia not.
This lethargic state of the little animal in
whom I saw nothing good, we thoroughly liked
Not; I therefore brought our "Mobbi"
whole in another, more spacious basin
only below, but that didn't change anything either
the definition of the fish. One morning,
At the end of November 1906, we found him dead in the
Aquarium in a blaze of colors that
he in life only with the utmost comfort
had shown. We mourned the wonderful
Little animal that we have owned for so long
had refreshed! What kind do they like
Causes of this slow sniffing of the animal
Have been? Should they be related to the sex life of these fish?
I would love to have a replacement for this one Fundulus , but where I am also in lover- and asked around sugar circles, nowhere was this species still represented, only a Berlin lover should, as reported to me still own a man of this Fundulus , which from the Siggelkow-Schneisingschen Import came, the others numerous Specimens of this kind which the import mentioned so were without offspring to have surrendered very quickly the way everything Meat gone. From an import that Siggelkow started December 1906, I got the only one Copy of a Fundulus , which later as a female of these blue Fundulus species turned out to be; it was my concern on March 8, 1907 A cluster of scales and later used to identify the fish. Because of me on the dead man studies carried out on the Flooding and scaling of this Fundulus I came to the conclusion that the number of Fin rays and dorsal and anal fin and the dimensions of the body, as well as the number the scales of the longitudinal line with the description by Fundulus gularis Blgr. in Proceedings of the Zoological Soociety, London 1901, P 623 agreed, but the description given here the color of the body and the |