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

Corals are known to be beautiful, there are many polyps, and polyps are small, and at the same time, polyps grow slowly.

Some colonies of polyps may grow faster, growing up to four centimetres tall in a year, but this is useless for a reef.

The youngest coral reefs in the world are 100,000 years old, and famous islands such as the Great Barrier Reef and the Maldives have a history of millions or even tens of millions of years.

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

In order to protect the reef, coral bases were born, and these incubators can mimic the optimal living environment of polyps, lure them to grow and reproduce, and then release them back into the sea suitable for them to grow in order to grow the polyp population.

Ao Muyang feels that the warm current near Brick Island can also feed the polyps, and the warm current sea area happens to be shallow, so they can freely receive sunlight, and the warm living environment and sunlight are the two elements necessary for the survival of polyps.

The price of polyps is very high, and a unit of coral colony costs at least tens of thousands.

Knowing that he was going to buy polyps, Land Rover was confused: "Why do you buy this?

Ao Muyang said with a smile: "Coral has a great effect on the fishing ground, if I can feed the polyps over there, it will be a century-old fishing ground." ”

The salesman next to him said, "You have to be careful, if the polyp population survives, maybe in the end a coral reef can be piled up to create a scenic spot." ”

Land Rover shook his head: "Anyway, I can't see it, and my grandson can't see it, do you dare to think that you can build a coral reef with a batch of polyps? That's really a big project!"

Polyps come in a variety of shapes and colors.

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

Ao Muyang bought a batch of sea anemones, their color is orange and red, their bodies are cylindrical, they support their whole body with thick soles, and there is a mouth on the top of their heads, and there is a tentacle around their mouths, which looks like a circle of beard.

In the huge incubators, the sea anemones live on each other and form a group, and there are small fish roaming in it, which look beautiful but are actually cruel, and these small fish are food.

Some small fish are close to the anemone, and once they touch the tentacle that swings with the current, they immediately do not move, because the anemone tentacle has stinging cells in the tentacle, which is poisonous.

He bought more colonies of polyps, living collectively on a calcareous skeleton, which is a little reef builder.

Specifically, the group of polyps is also divided into six corals and eight corals, eight corals are the most beautiful, with various shapes, some like fans, some like floor lamps, some like dry branches, and some like swinging whips.

But the most important thing is the six-coral, which is very good at secreting calcareous matter, and these groups of polyps are constantly agglomerating, expanding and increasing in height, which is why the huge coral reef is formed.

Buying a polyp is a big investment, and Ao Muyang directly sprinkled one million yuan.

As a result, when he bought it, the salesman told him a good news, 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 salesman immediately told him again: "Mr. Ao, if you buy polyps, you have to buy northern newts." ”

Ao Muyang had never heard of such a thing, and asked, "What?

The salesman laughed: "Yes, Northnewt, you should know about the Great Barrier Reef starfish invasion in the nineties, when in just two years, the coral colony of the Great Barrier Reef was frantically devoured by starfish, causing a large number of corals to disappear. ”

Ao Muyang hadn't heard of this starfish invasion, but he knew that the starfish devoured corals, the mouth of the starfish's abdomen could grind the coral stones and eat the polyps, once they invaded the coral reef in groups, it would be like locusts transiting, which could bring great damage to the coral!

The salesman continued: "Australian oceanographers and biologists studied the invasion and found that the sudden burst of starfish was due to tourists fishing for the newt, which likes to prey on starfish and is the patron saint of coral reefs. ”

In this case, what could Ao Muyang say? He had no choice but to buy a large group of northern newts.

This creature is rare in domestic waters, they are mollusks with shells, and their vitality is much more tenacious than that of polyps, and the reason why they are rarely introduced in the sea is because most of the sea areas do not have polyps and do not need them to hunt starfish.

Seaweed seeds and seaweed seedlings are sown at will and allowed to grow freely, while polyps are placed in warm currents and attached to incubators.

These incubators will be the initial attachment point for their extended population, and later as the population expands, they will multiply on the corpse remains of their ancestors.

Of course, first of all, the polyps can survive in the fishing grounds.

After buying seeds of seaweed and seaweed and polyps, Ao Muyang's fishery spring construction plan has one more step, that is, a large number of golden drops will be released.

He threw out the drops of gold and scattered them into countless small gold dots scattered in the sea, and the fishing grounds were bustling with activity.

All the fish, shrimp and crabs come out and float in the water to catch gold spots, some of which will attach to the seaweed aquatic plants, and the seaweed aquatic plants can also use the gold droplets.

Looking at the splendid lobsters and prawn crickets floating in the sea, Ao Muyang probably figured out a puzzle: why do lobsters and shrimp crickets prey on each other when they survive in the breeding pond, but not in the sea.

The reason is probably related to the living environment, they will attack each other when they are crowded in the breeding pond, and in the open sea, both shrimp and crabs will be separated from each other and no longer live in groups, in which case they will rarely attack each other.

Ao Muyang uses underwater thrusters to swim around in the fishing grounds, scattering gold droplets everywhere, among which the polyp colony is the most sprinkled, which can enhance their activity and allow them to have better adaptability to the environment.

There were more and more fishing boats in the spring, and Ao Muyang left Zhong Cang in the fishing ground and asked him to be in charge of guarding, and he still had to go back to the village.

When he returned to the village, it was the tenth day of the new year, and this time he stayed in the fishing ground for two and a half days.

He entered the door with his front foot, Ao Fugui followed his heels, and when he came in, he shouted: "Sheep, hurry up, someone will come to warn your daughter-in-law again." ”

Ao Muyang said inexplicably: "What is my daughter-in-law?"

Ao Fugui said: "I don't understand this? It's just that someone is harassing Teacher Lu again." ”

Ao Muyang perked up and said, "The idiot who was cheated by me for a Mercedes-Benz is back?"

Ao Fugui shook his head: "No, it's a little white face who came this time, but he's much more powerful." ”