The wildness of the West African style contrasts with the emptiness of the Japanese style, and the other landscaping styles fall somewhere in between.

Zhang Zi'an introduced the landscaping style of these fish tanks to Xiaoxue, and even the other customers who browsed casually listened to it.

"Is there a Chinese-style landscaping?" Xiaoxue asked after reading it.

"Unfortunately, not yet, at least I haven't heard of it. Zhang Zi'an replied, "Japanese landscaping started more than 40 years later than Western landscaping, and it took a lot of effort to catch up with the last train - you know, in Fuso, the cost of building and furnishing fish tanks can be counted in the housing loan, which relieves the economic pressure." Fish tank landscaping began to become popular in China even later, and it takes time to form a unique style, and perhaps one day there will be Chinese-style landscaping. ”

Xiaoxue was a little sorry to hear it, but this kind of artistic stuff can't be forced, and China is too big, and the major cities don't accept each other, so it's too difficult to form a unified style.

In addition to economic factors, fish tank landscaping is rich and leisurely to have a mood to play, and China's middle class is old and young, often busy every day, there is no time to calm down, most of the people who can play fish tank landscaping are the elderly with rich pensions, successful people who achieve financial freedom, or enterprises and institutions.

After visiting the central exhibition area, Zhang Zi'an needs to be busy with his business.

He walked to the shops around him and looked for aquarium supplies that he was satisfied with.

Xiaoxue followed behind him, she didn't understand these things, silently watched him pick up a handful of bottom sand and pinch it, picked up a live stone to observe the color, put it under his nose and smelled it, basically didn't ask the merchant, even if he asked, he just asked about the price.

When the merchant saw him like this, he knew that he was an expert, and often quoted the reserve price directly, saving the trouble of bargaining between the two parties.

Zhang Zi'an walked to a shop, picked up two long stick-shaped artificial stones, and knocked them on each other.

"What is this? hollow bricks?"

Xiaoxue noticed that the surface of the two artificial stones was covered with fine holes, which looked very light, reminiscent of hollow bricks as a building material.

"No, it's a bacteriological house, a filter material that is used to grow nitrifying bacteria. Zhang Zi'an handed one of them to her, "Most seawater tanks do not need to add additional bacteria houses because of the living stones to undertake this task, but the FOT fish tank, that is, the bare tank, the kind that only has fish in the tank, still needs to be used." However, the bacteria house will be acidic for a long time, and it needs to be used in combination with coral sand. ”

After saying that, he beckoned to the shopkeeper, "Bring me one." ”

Zhang Zi'an not only bought a bacteriological house in this store, but he stopped to buy one from every shop that sold germ houses on the second floor, put it in different plastic bags, and marked the name of the store with a marker.

Without waiting for Xiaoxue to ask, he explained: "The bacteria house consumes a lot of money, and you have to buy hundreds of catties when you buy it, but this thing is uneven, I will buy some samples first, smash them and put them under the microscope to see the internal structure, some bacteria houses are more pitiful, but there are fine pores on the surface, and the inside is all solid." Which one is of good quality, I will come back and buy which, of course, it will be the wholesale price. ”

Xiaoxue let out a sharp sigh unconsciously.

The two turned a corner and came to a shop that sold coral.

When it comes to coral, living coral is often confused with coral reefs and decorative corals, but in fact, living coral is a living organism, and the latter two are the remains of coral after death.

Seawater tanks are roughly divided into three types, namely pure fish tanks, reef tanks, and fish and coral polyculture tanks, the difficulty of breeding is gradually increasing, but the aesthetics are also gradually increasing, and most seawater tank players want to have the perfect fish and coral polyculture tank.

Therefore, Zhang Zi'an needs to purchase some different kinds of coral to place in the display tank, which can stimulate customers' desire to buy more than a bare pure fish tank.

This shop specializes in selling corals, and the entire store is filled with large and small reef tanks, Zhang Zi'an took a cursory glance, the types of corals are quite rich, at least the common coral species are quite complete.

"Huh, are there corals on both sides?"

Xiaoxue looked to the left and then to the right, and the corals on the left and right sides of the store were completely different, with the corals on the left side blooming on the reef like huge flowers, and the corals on the right side resembling cactus-like branches.

"Well, it's all corals, soft corals on the left, bony corals on the right, and it's very well divided. Zhang Zi'an walked to the side of the tank and carefully observed through the water.

After observation, he found that the corals on the left and right sides seemed to be evenly divided, but in fact, there were more types of soft corals on the left, and the bony corals on the right were filled by quantity.

The charm of corals lies in the variety of shapes and colors, especially bony corals, which resemble a dense coral jungle.

Xiaoxue almost pressed her face against the wall of the fish tank, and admired the beauty of the coral in amazement through the glass.

The reef tank is completely different from the previous landscape tank, because the landscape tank basically uses the animal and plant resources in fresh water, which is beautiful, but it is not as full of deep mystery as the reef tank.

There was also a female customer in the store who was looking for corals, and she seemed to have seen all the corals in the store, but she was still not satisfied, and asked the shopkeeper, "Boss, are there any other corals?"

"No, that's all. The boss was looking down to play with his phone and replied without raising his head.

This female customer is about 30 years old, and she is covered in famous brands, and she looks relatively rich.

"Your corals here are all artificially farmed, right? Are there any wild ones? It doesn't matter if they're more expensive. She frowned and said, "Is there one over there in the South China Sea?"

The boss raised his head lazily and glanced at her, "No, the country is not allowed to sell, only Indonesia and Australia." Last year, several of the wild corals sold here were taken away by law enforcement for investigation, and it took several days to release them back, and when they came back, they closed down and left. ”

Wild corals are in better condition and more uniform in color than artificially bred corals, but because bony corals are in danger of extinction, the state has banned the mining and trade of wild bony corals, especially the corals in the South China Sea are strictly protected, which is deeply regretted by many veteran aquarium players.

At present, the main source of coral imports is corals raised in captivity from Australia and Indonesia.

Zhang Zi'an has also heard of it, but there is no way, since the state is so stipulated, then it can only be complied with.