FROZEN FLEA SERVICE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22949, 29 January 1938, Page 10

FROZEN FLEA SERVICE

FOOD FOR ROYAL GOLDFISH EXPERTS VISIT TO PALACE [fhoii a special correspondent] LONDON, Jan. 1 A man with a curious job is Mr. C. Schiller, a tropical fish expert, ™ takes fleas every week day to Buckmf ham Palace, as part of liis work & tending and feeding the inmates of t». Royal aquarium. Mr. Schiller is of those fleas. They are semi-frozen as that is his own idea. The fleas are nc« tho human or animal type, but water variety. Goldfishes dote on themThe difficulty usually is to handle theffi. One cannot pick up a water flea afc haiid it to a fish. Mr. Schiller had a brainwave. M not freeze them—make them fleas aspic? So now the?e fleas, brought n" secret breeding ponds in Surrey, ' semi-frozen on to gauze traps in don refrigerators. Each dav - • Schiller drives to tlje Palace, drop pinch or so of frozen fleas l'lto _ tank, and in two minutes .(.it the te' have not gobbled first) the fleas -co. to life and give them their morn® exorcise. " , ... Mr. Schiller said this week: Ge ° ally we sell, about a teaspoonful a time. About 3000 frozen fleas look, ■ brown granulated sugar. The fleas • reared on a special diet of bullo blood and sour milk."