Littell's Living Age/Volume 115/Issue 1489/Paradise or Peacock Fish

The Brighton Aquarium has lately received two pair of beautiful specimens of the Paradise or Peacock fish. This fish came first from China, and has been acclimatized by M. Carbonnier, the great pisciculturist of Paris; they are very lovely little creatures. Some of their habits are singular: thus M. Carbonnier states that "as the eggs are laid the male carries them away in his mouth, and deposits them in a nest which he builds for them. He will not allow the female to come anywhere near the nest, and if she ventures to approach he swings himself round, and drives her away."