Chapter 785: The Ugly Duckling

The shape of the third fish tank is somewhat special, flat and wide, and there is nothing in it except thick ice floes.

Zhang Zian squatted down and looked up at the bottom of the ice floe, where the mystery was.

At first glance, the bottom of the ice floes looks like beautiful flowers blooming, floating gently with the weak currents, but the flowers are far from being so slender, and even under the glimmer of light on the ice surface, they are as crystal clear as ice cubes, almost transparent.

There are only a few such "flowers", all of which are rooted in the ice without exception, making it doubtful whether they are animals or plants.

On the beach in Germany, after Zhang Zian put the mermaid into his phone, a large number of weird creatures retreated from the beach like the tide was ebbing, and a piece of thin ice was also wriggling slightly. When he turned the thin ice over with a branch, he found these strange creatures on the back of the thin ice.

He recognized it right away. It was an ice sea anemone, a new species discovered in Antarctica in 2010. The number and habits were unknown, and the whole body was full of mysteries.

After being frightened, they curled up tightly, less than three centimeters long, but when they were brought back to the pet shop and adapted to the new environment, their bodies stretched about seven or eight centimeters, and more than twenty tentacles of different lengths bloomed like petals.

Fortunately, he didn't rush to lift the thin ice with his hands, because the tentacles of sea anemones are generally poisonous, and the toxicity of this newly discovered sea anemone is unknown, so he didn't want to try the poison himself.

Ice sea angels, panhu snails, and ice sea anemones all need to be kept at low temperature. Before the chiller arrives, they can only be cooled by this simple and crude method.

"Meow~ So beautiful~" Xinghai stared at the ice sea anemone and said, "Like a star."

In the dim room, the weak light on the ice floe can barely illuminate the ice floe itself, and the seawater under the ice floe is a thick darkness, but in this darkness, these weak ice anemones are like The cat's eyes with light-focusing effect are shining like stars when looking up.

In fact, the sea water is not empty, there are some newly hatched brine shrimp floating in the water, as food for the ice sea anemone, fortunately, they are not as picky eaters as the ice sea angel.

Zhang Zian carefully observed their status, confirmed that everything was normal, and then walked to several other coral tanks to inspect.

The coral tank is located under the other wall, because the water temperature of the coral tank is above 20 degrees, and the three fish tanks with a few degrees above zero will affect each other.

Thanks to high-end aquarium equipment, the corals are growing well and require little attention.

Even so, he still has to measure the water quality every day in case the water quality suddenly deteriorates. After all, equipment cannot completely replace people, and some indicators of water quality can only be measured manually.

He sampled each reef tank with a test tube and labeled it to prevent confusion. Later he will test the KH value in the bony reef tank. This is the concentration of bicarbonate ions, which is also the difference between artificial seawater and natural One of the biggest differences in seawater. The KH value of natural seawater is generally 7 to 8dH, and the water in the fish tank is limited. In order to avoid the sudden and sharp deterioration of the water quality and the death of bony corals, it is necessary to keep the KH value between 9 and 12dH in advance.

Soft corals, on the contrary, need to prevent the KH value from rising.

While he was looking at the coral tanks one by one, Xinghai also came over, staring at the last coral tank and said: "Zian, there are beautiful mushrooms in the water."

mushroom?

Zhang Zian was taken aback, and wondered how could there be mushrooms in the water, could it be that Richard took a mushroom and threw it into the coral tank? If so, he must beat the shit out of it!

The last coral tank is the tank where the ugly coral is kept. Although it grows up day by day, it is still ugly.

Zhang Zian bent down and looked in through the glass. There were no mushrooms in the water, but the ugly coral seemed to have undergone some slight changes.

He quickly took a magnifying glass and took a closer look.

Despite the lack of light, through a magnifying glass, he vaguely found that the edge of the ugly coral was slightly white, as if a white circle had grown out.

Coral sick?

Not really.

He thought for a while,

Adjusted the lighting settings to convert the original white light into a faint blue light.

In an instant, Qi Jian appeared!

This dull coral has a dreamy color combination where the white circle is a vivid blue and the taupe within the white circle turns reddish like a mushroom with a blue ring on a red background.

As the saying goes, red and blue have produced CP since ancient times.

Light red and bright blue make this originally ugly and repulsive coral transform into the most eye-catching star. Even a few other beautiful corals cannot hide its light. Even if it is placed among hundreds of corals, people will Will see it at a glance.

If the owner of the coral specialty store saw this scene, he would definitely regret missing 100 million yuan!

Zhang Zian stared at it dumbfounded, and the Brain Monkey immediately remembered a name and an anecdote.

This rare coral is called Mesophotic Leptris, so far there is no corresponding Chinese name.

This kind of coral appeared for the first time in 2011. They were mixed with a batch of live rocks from Yu and sent to a tropical fish store in California, USA.

Not only this kind of coral, but also some rare corals have been discovered in this way-people originally bought other common corals, checked them after returning home, and found that there were mysterious stowaways mixed in

It has become clear by now that the Yu coral farm, which is the source of the coral specialty store, probably not only sells farmed corals, but also secretly mines natural corals and mixes them for sale to increase production. Fishermen mined the reefs along with other corals and packed them for shipment to China.

The owner of the coral specialty store and the female customer are both veterans of aquarium and have rich experience, but they lack some theoretical foundation after all, so they miss the opportunity.

At the same time as he thought of its name, Zhang Zian immediately dimmed the intensity of the light and lowered the water temperature by 1 degree, as if waking up from a dream. Because he remembers that this kind of coral lives about 30 meters underwater, and the sunlight that can shine there is already very weak. At the same time, the water temperature is also a little high.

A single tree does not make a forest, and some species of corals will be more beautiful only when they are gathered in a community. The same is true for this kind of coral. When it grows and multiplies into a piece of coral, it will definitely have a breathtaking beauty.

"Meow ~ Zian, what's the name of this coral?" Xinghai asked curiously.

"What?" Zhang Zian felt that the string of English names was long and convoluted. Anyway, this kind of coral has no Chinese name for the time being, so he simply said, "It's called ugly coral."

One day, the ugly crumbs will grow into white swans.

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