238. Add fry
There is a marine fish in Australia called the Australian tiger shark, and it turns out that the tiger and shark are both very awesome when taken out individually, but they are a bit naughty when combined.
In fact, it is a little larger than ordinary fish, and it is not at the same level as the great white shark, a distant relative, and is often fished out by fishermen with fishing rods.
This guy has an advantage, that is, he has no bladder, and all the urine is excreted through the muscles, which can be said to be very unpalatable, and this guy actually poisons the meat.
Emperor Wu had heard of it before, and today it was the first time he had seen it.
There are two big fish tanks in this fishing ground, and the boss said that they were brought back for ornamentation, but the key is that the appearance of this Australian tiger shark is too ugly!
Old fishermen say that most of Australia's freshwater fish are very old species, such as barramundi.
The boss made sure that Emperor Wu saw the barramundi with his own eyes, saying that he would definitely like this ancient freshwater fish.
With a pragmatic attitude, Emperor Wu followed his boss aboard another fishing boat in another breeding pond, driven by another brown-skinned fisherman, who was not tall and tanned, but his hands were particularly strong.
The boss called him David, which is probably his English name.
This fish pond is smaller and shallower than the previous one, and Emperor Wu has a feeling that he can run aground at any time.
The boat stopped in the center, and the boss exchanged a few words with David, who grinned and prepared to cast the net, his movements were very skillful, and after a while, he caught a big fish.
This fish is very peculiar, rectangular, more than a meter long, and its body is golden yellow, like a slender battleship.
"Is this the lungfish?" asked Emperor Wu.
"It's not complete, it's barramundi, native to Queensland. ”
The boss and David put the bouncing fish into the glass tank at the stern of the boat.
The fish occupies almost the entire tank, and her body is like a slender girl with a high pimple, and she is simply a model in the fish world.
At this time, the boss smiled and said, "In the summer, the water in the pond will be highly hypoxic, and other fish will die in large numbers, but it can breathe with lungs to survive." When autumn comes, and the pond is filled with fresh water, they breathe happily on their gills again. ”
It seems that this fish has a large origin, with both gills and lungs, which indicates that it came from a very ancient era and is a link in some evolutionary chain.
The boss's next words confirmed Emperor Wu's conjecture, saying that the barramundi was an animal of the same age as the dinosaurs, and it could be regarded as a living fossil.
The owner of the fishery told a lot about the history of barramundi, which made Emperor Wu finally make a decision, and the key sentence was: Australian barramundi is edible and the meat tastes quite good.
Today, Emperor Wu is a pragmatist, he only cares about two points, whether the fish he buys back like to eat green algae, whether he likes to be eaten, and as for who they live in and what era, Emperor Wu does not care.
There is a small situation that Australian barramundi is a protected animal, and large-scale farming requires government permission, which is not a difficult thing, and with the qualifications of Emperor Wu, these living fossils can now be farmed.
"BOSS, IT'S ALL BARRAMUNDI. Tex said on the side of the ship.
The boss smiled and nodded, saying that Chinese like to eat this fish, and customers in Melbourne will come to him to buy barramundi.
Emperor Wu is no longer surprised by this, that is, kangaroo meat and emu meat are not popular in China, otherwise they will be distributed to become endangered protected animals.
Australia's more famous freshwater also has Gong fish, that is, Arowana, this fish is mainly used as an ornamental fish, and there are different species such as golden dragon, silver dragon, black dragon, red dragon and so on.
Emperor Wu wasn't very interested in this, so he didn't ask much, and he didn't understand.
In the end, there were a total of 100,000 fry of barramundia plus the old three kinds of silver perch and freshwater grouper.
Tex thinks it's too much, Emperor Wu thinks it's not too much, these 100,000 are completely bearable for Huaxi Lake, and it's still a question whether they can all survive, and it's good if half of the children can survive until next year.
In the morning the fish were watched in the town of Corte, and in the afternoon the goods were delivered to the ranch.
I have to say that Australia's transportation system is very developed, and even remote suburbs can be delivered on the same day. Of course, in addition to garbage, Emperor Wu has always been worried about garbage, he has approached the town's cleaning department several times, and they have always disagreed to send garbage trucks to the ranch to collect garbage, even once every half a month.
The reason for the cleaning department was that it would increase the burden on the cleaners, and Emperor Wu could only laugh, it was really a place that paid attention to human rights.
For this reason, when he walked out of the town hall several times, he angrily vowed to run for mayor of the town, and sent ten vehicles to the ranch every two hours to collect garbage.
But this is all angry talk, and Emperor Wu has no interest in the position of mayor of the town at all, even though many people claim to vote for him, saying that Emperor Wu is the most promising person to lead the town after Brian's retirement.
Back at the ranch, Emperor Wu called Cheng Zhe and Xiaopa, two young people, and he was afraid that the uncles would not be able to do the physical work of releasing fish fry, and he also had to exercise and train the young people.
Cheng Zhe came in a helicopter, this guy has been obsessed with helicopters since the day he hunted wild dogs, he bought himself a flight insurance, and then got a flight permit from Emperor Wu.
The helicopter greatly shortened the distance between the two ranches, and it was about time for the glory of the two kings.
Scattering fish fry should not be arbitrarily kuangkuang, which can easily cause the small fish to die abnormally.
Emperor Wu controlled the rhythm of the yacht in the driver's compartment and kept driving at a low speed on Huaxi Lake.
The two young men carried the basket and poured it out, in a very primitive way, and they tried to move as quickly as possible, so as not to stampede the crowded fish.
Turks tended to the remaining fry among the birds of prey on the shore, and the back of the truck was filled with water frames.
The whole process lasted more than two hours, and all 100,000 small fish were sent to Huaxi Lake, where they are believed to live happily.
Algae and plankton are staple foods during the fry stage of small fish, and the green algae of Huaxi Lake provide a huge source of food for them, and they will be happy if they have a mind.
As soon as there was green algae, the feed still had to be sprinkled symbolically, so I bought some fish feed from the town of Corte and dispersed it to the lake by yacht.
These small fry will be as ecstatic as the first Australian rabbits to arrive, with plenty of food and wide fields.
Wu Di believes that the addition of fish to the lake may attract a flock of pelicans and continue to add vitality to the entire Nanao ranch.
Even if the pelicans don't show up on their own initiative, Emperor Wu intends to attract them through the big white pelican, which can hold hundreds of pelicans.
After everything was over, Emperor Wu attached his consciousness to the big silver perch and inspected the work in the lake, as long as the big guy opened his mouth slightly, those small fish would enter his mouth.
The situation in the lake was not bad, the small fish were very clever and soon spread throughout the lake.