Golden Fishing Village

The coral polyp incubator is also called the coral base. It is a tool designed by the world's top marine ecological research team to protect coral reefs.

As we all know, corals are beautiful, there are many coral polyps, and the coral polyps are also small. At the same time, the growth rate of coral polyps is very slow.

Perhaps some coral polyp colonies grow faster and can grow four centimeters a year, but this is useless for a coral reef.

The youngest coral reefs in the world that have existed so far have a history of 100,000 years. For example, the Great Barrier Reef and the Maldives, these famous islands, have a history of millions or even tens of millions of years.

Because of the increase in seawater acidity caused by the greenhouse effect and human pollution, coral polyps around the world are dying in large numbers, and many coral reefs have lost their colorful glory.

In order to protect coral reefs, the coral base was born. These incubators can imitate the best living environment for coral polyps, induce them to grow and reproduce, and then put them back into the sea area suitable for their growth, in order to strengthen the coral polyp population.

Ao Muyang thinks that the warm current near Zhuantou Island can also feed coral polyps. The warm current sea area happens to be shallow, and can be exposed to sunlight freely. The warm living environment and sunlight are exactly the two elements necessary for the survival of coral polyps.

The price of coral polyps is very high. One unit of coral colony costs at least tens of thousands of yuan.

When he learned that he wanted to buy coral polyps, Lu Hu was confused: "Why buy this? To keep it in the aquarium for fun?"

Ao Muyang smiled and said: "Corals are very useful for fisheries. If I can feed coral polyps, it will be a century-old fishery."

The salesperson next to him said: "You have to pay attention. If the coral polyp colony survives, it may eventually form a coral reef, which can be a tourist attraction."

Lu Hu shook his head: "Anyway, I can't see it, and my grandson can't see it either. You really dare to think about using a batch of coral polyps to build a coral reef? That's really a big project!"

Coral polyps come in various shapes and colors, and there are many kinds.

In terms of classification, they can be divided into colony type and single type. The well-known sea anemone is a single coral polyp with a large body.

Ao Muyang bought a batch of sea anemones. They are orange-red in color, cylindrical in shape, supported by thick soles, with a mouth on the top of the head and a crown of tentacles around the mouth, which looks like a circle of beard.

In the huge incubator, the sea anemones live together and form a group. There are small fish swimming in it. It looks beautiful, but it is actually cruel. These small fish are food.

Some small fish approach the sea anemone. Once they touch the crown of tentacles that swing with the water flow, they will immediately stop moving, because there are stinging cells in the crown of tentacles of the sea anemone, which is poisonous.

He bought more colony coral polyps, which rely on a calcareous skeleton to survive collectively. This is a little expert in reef building.

Specifically, colony coral polyps are also divided into six corals and eight corals. The eight corals are the most beautiful and have various shapes. Some are like fans, some are like floor lamps, some are like dry branches, and some are like swinging whips.

But the most important thing is the hexapod coral, which is very good at secreting lime. These coral polyps constantly aggregate, expand and grow, forming a huge coral reef.

Buying coral polyps is a big investment, and Ao Muyang directly spent one million yuan.

As a result, when he bought it, the salesperson told him a good news that he only needed to pay 800,000 yuan, and the state would subsidize 200,000 yuan.

However, he couldn't get the 200,000 yuan, and the salesperson immediately told him: "Mr. Ao, if you buy coral polyps, you have to buy northern salamanders."

Ao Muyang had never heard of this thing and asked: "What? Northern salamanders?"

The salesperson smiled and said: "Yes, northern salamanders, you should know about the starfish invasion of the Great Barrier Reef in the 1990s? At that time, in just two years, the coral colonies of the Great Barrier Reef were eaten crazily by starfish, causing a large number of corals to disappear."

Ao Muyang had never heard of this starfish invasion, but he knew about starfish eating corals. The mouth on the abdomen of starfish can grind coral stones and eat coral polyps. Once they invade the coral reef in groups, it is like a locust crossing the border, which can cause great damage to the corals!

The salesman continued to explain: "Australian oceanographers and biologists studied the invasion at the time and found that the reason why starfish suddenly reproduced explosively was because tourists were fishing for northern salamanders, which like to prey on starfish and are the guardians of coral reefs."

In this case, what can Ao Muyang say? He had to buy a large group of northern salamanders again.

This creature is rare in domestic waters. They are mollusks with shells and have much stronger vitality than coral polyps. The reason why few seas have introduced them is that most seas do not have coral polyps and do not need them to hunt starfish.

Seaweed seeds and seaweed seedlings are sown at will and allowed to grow freely. Coral polyps are placed in warm current waters and attached to incubators.

These incubators will be the initial attachment points for their expansion of the population. As the population expands, they will proliferate on the corpses and bones of their ancestors.

Of course, that requires the coral polyps to survive in the fishery first.

After buying seaweed and seaweed seeds and coral polyps, Ao Muyang's spring fishery construction plan has one more step, which is to release a large number of gold drops.

He threw out drops of gold, which were scattered into countless small golden dots in the sea water, and then the fishing ground became lively.

All the fish, shrimps and crabs came out and floated in the water to catch the golden dots. Some of the golden dots would attach to the seaweed and water plants, which could also use the gold drops.

Looking at the splendid lobsters and fierce mantis shrimps floating in the sea, Ao Muyang probably figured out a puzzle: why do lobsters and mantis shrimps prey on each other in the breeding pond, but not in the sea.

The reason should be related to the living environment. They will attack each other when crowded in the breeding pond, while in the open sea, whether shrimps or crabs, they will be separated and no longer live in groups. In this case, they rarely attack each other.

Ao Muyang used underwater propellers to swim around in the fishing grounds, scattering gold drops everywhere, among which the coral polyp colonies scattered the most. The gold drops can enhance their activity and allow them to have better adaptability to the environment.

There are more and more fishing boats in spring. Ao Muyang left Zhong Cang in the fishing grounds and asked him to be responsible for guarding. He still had to go back to the village.

It was the tenth day after returning to the village. This time he stayed in the fishing grounds for two and a half days.

As soon as he entered the door, Ao Fugui followed him and shouted, "Yangzi, hurry up, someone is here to pick up your wife again."

Ao Muyang said in confusion, "What do you mean by pick up my wife?"

Ao Fugui said, "Don't you understand? Someone is here to harass Teacher Lu again."

Ao Muyang was refreshed and said, "The idiot who I cheated out of a Mercedes-Benz is back again?"

Ao Fugui shook his head, "No, this time it's a pretty boy, but his mother is much more powerful."