Pet King

Chapter 787 ugly duckling

The shape of the third aquarium is a bit special, flat and wide, with nothing but a thick ice floe.

Zhang Zi An kneels down and looks up at the bottom of the ice floes. The mystery is there.

Looking at the past, the bottom of the ice floes is like a beautiful flower, with the gentle water flowing gently, but the flowers are far from so slender, even under the illumination of the ice, the ice is crystal clear and almost transparent.

There are only a few such “flowers”, all of which are rooted in ice, and it is doubtful whether they are animals or plants.

On the beach in Germany, when Zhang Zi An put the mermaid into the phone, a large number of weird creatures retreated from the beach like a low tide, and a thin piece of ice was also slightly creeping. When he picked a thin ice with a branch, he found these strange creatures on the back of the thin ice.

He immediately recognized it. This is ice anemone, a new species found in the Antarctic in 2010 years. The quantity is unknown, the habit is unknown, and the whole body is a mystery.

They were tightly huddled after being scared, less than three centimeters in length, but when they were brought back to the pet store and adapted to the new environment, the body stretched around seven or eight centimeters, and more than twenty different tentacles of different lengths bloom like petals.

Fortunately, he did not rush to open thin ice, because the anemone’s tentacle is generally poisonous, and the toxicity of this newly discovered anemone is unknown, he does not want to test the poison.

Ice sea angels, snails and ice anemones all need low temperature feeding, and they can only be cooled down by this simple and rude method before the chiller is shipped.

“Hey~ So beautiful~” Xinghai stared at the ice anemone and said, “Like the stars.”

In the dimly lit room, the faint light on the ice floes barely illuminates the ice floe itself. The sea water under the ice floes is full of darkness. However, in this darkness, these soft ice anemones are like The cat’s eyes with the condensing effect are shining, looking up like a star.

In fact, the sea is not empty. There are some freshly hatched brine shrimps floating in the water. As a food of ice anemones, they are not as picky as ice sea angels.

Zhang Zi An carefully observed their status, confirmed that everything was normal, and went to another coral reef to inspect.

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

Thanks to the high-end aquarium equipment, the corals are growing well and don’t have to worry too much.

Despite this, he still needs to measure the water quality every day, and the water quality suddenly deteriorates. After all, the equipment can not completely replace people, and some indicators of water quality can only be determined manually.

He used a test tube to take a sample of water in each coral tank and label it to prevent confusing. Later he would test the KH value in the hard coral reef tank, which is the concentration of bicarbonate ions and artificial seawater. One of the biggest differences in natural seawater. The natural seawater has a KH value generally ranging from 7 to 8dH, and the amount of water in the aquarium is limited. In order to avoid the sudden deterioration of water quality, the hard coral coral is killed, and it is necessary to maintain the KH value at 9 to 12dH.

Soft corals, on the other hand, need to prevent an increase in KH.

When he took the water samples one by one, the Xinghai also came over and stared at the last coral tank and said: “Zionan, there are beautiful mushrooms in the water.”

mushroom?

Zhang Zi An A glimpse of the heart, how can there be mushrooms in the water, is Richard’s idle egg hurting the root mushroom into the coral tank? If this is the case, he will not take it out!

The last coral reef is the tank that raises the ugly coral. Although it grows up day by day, it is still ugly.

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

He quickly took a magnifying glass and looked at it again.

Despite the lack of light, through the magnifying glass, he vaguely found that the edge of the ugly coral was slightly white, like a white circle.

Is the coral sick?

Not like it.

He thought a little and adjusted the lighting settings to convert the original white light into a faint blue light.

In an instant, a miracle has appeared!

This faint coral glows with a dreamy combination of colors, the white circles show a dazzling blue color, and the taupe in the white circle turns pale red, like a mushroom with a red-and-blue ring.

As the saying goes, since the ancient red and blue out of the CP.

The light red and bright blue make this originally ugly coral become the most striking star, even if several other beautiful corals can’t hide its light, even if it is placed between hundreds of corals, people also I will see it at a glance.

If the former coral store owner saw this scene, he would regret to miss 100,000,000!

Zhang Zi An stared at it with a stunned look, and suddenly remembered a name and an anecdote.

This rare coral is called Mesophotic Leptoseris and has no corresponding Chinese name so far.

The first appearance of this coral was in 2011 years. They were mixed in a group of live rock produced in Indonesia and sent to a tropical fish shop in California, and were accidentally discovered by the owner. This is very similar to this time.

Not only this kind of coral, but also some rare corals have been discovered – people originally bought other common corals, and after going home, they were examined and found that there are mysterious storks mixed in…

It is now clear that the Indonesian coral farm, which is the source of the coral store, probably does not only sell farmed corals, but also quietly extracts natural corals for sale to increase production. Because of its smallness and inconspicuousness, the coral was mined by coral fishermen along with other corals and packaged for transport to China.

The owner of the coral store and the female customer are both veterans of the aquarium and have a wealth of experience, but after missing some theoretical foundations, they will miss the opportunity.

At the same time as his name, Zhang Zi An wakes up and immediately dims the lighting intensity and lowers the water temperature by 1. Because he remembers that the coral is about 30 meters underwater, the sun that shines there is already very weak. It is a kind of low-light coral. The reason why it grows slowly is because the light he used to give is too strong. At the same time, the water temperature is also somewhat high.

The woods are not forested, and some species of corals are more beautiful only when they are clustered into a community. The same is true of corals. When it grows into a coral, it will have a breathtaking beauty.

“喵呜~子安, what is the name of this coral?” Xinghai asked curiously.

“Well, this…” Zhang Zi An felt that the English name was long and lingering. Anyway, this coral has no Chinese name at the moment, and simply said: “It is called the ugly duck coral.”

One day, the ugly duckling will grow into a white swan.

(End of this chapter)