Chapter 69: Saury fry
What worries Xiao Ping is that he finds that the speed of upgrading the Demon Refining Pot has slowed down a lot. In the past, as long as hundreds of thousands of jade materials were consumed, the demon refining pot could undergo a significant evolution. However, this time, Xiao Ping spent more than a million dollars to make a significant change in the space of the demon refining pot, and the gap was very large.
Xiao Ping felt that the evolution of the demon refining pot was similar to playing an online game to upgrade. Maybe you only need 100 XP to go from Level 1 to Level 2, but you may need 200 XP to go from Level 2 to Level 3, and if you want to go from Level 9 to Level 10, you may need 10,000 XP.
Xiao Ping didn't know much about the Demon Refining Pot until now, so naturally he wouldn't understand why this situation would occur. But at least one thing he is sure of, if he wants the Demon Refining Pot to keep evolving, he will have to spend money in the future!
"Money!" a long howl ruined the tranquil atmosphere in the refreshed demon refining pot.
Although Xiao Ping was very distressed about the money, he had to admit that the money was really worth it. In addition to the space of the demon refining pot has become larger, the amount of spiritual liquid produced each time has also increased, reaching as many as 22 drops! If you pour so much spiritual liquid into the cup, it will be enough to cover the bottom of the cup, even if those hundreds of chicks hatch, it will be enough for Xiao Ping and the farm.
What made Xiao Ping even happier was that on the third day after the waterhole became larger, the saury fish finally spawned.
The aquatic plants in the pond were covered with fish eggs. The eggs are not much larger than the tip of a needle, and they are all translucent. If it weren't for Xiao Ping's very good eyesight and the extremely clear water in the pool, he wouldn't have been able to find these inconspicuous fish eggs at all.
Instinctively, the saury keeps a close eye on the eggs, driving away or eating any small fish that dare to come close. Although Xiao Ping knew that some fish in the Dao Dao had the behavior of guarding the eggs and even the fry, he did not know that the Dao saury also had the same habits. Seeing the appearance of qualified parents of saury, Xiao Ping also felt very interesting.
Artificially cultivated saury is a project that Xiao Ping attaches great importance to, so he is not at ease to entrust the eggs to the care of the breeding saury. Xiao Ping quickly found out the plastic fish tank that had transported the pair of saury fish in the first place, opened large holes on all sides and at the bottom of the fish tank, and then covered it with a very fine gauze net to form an obstacle that allowed the water to pass through but could block the fish from entering, which was a simple hatching box.
Xiao Ping was very satisfied with this simple incubator, and after looking up and down for a while, he made sure that there was no problem, and soon took the incubator into the demon refining pot. He hung the hatching box on the edge of the waterhole, and after making sure that other small fish could not enter the tank, he jumped into the waterhole to collect the aquatic plants that had stuck to the eggs.
Seeing that some intruders wanted to harm the fish eggs, the saury also put up a fierce resistance. However, for Xiao Ping, their actions were in vain, and it was not long before all the aquatic plants clinging to the eggs were carefully transferred to the hatching box. Xiao Ping, who was satisfied, climbed to the shore and sat on the edge of the pool wet, looking at the fish eggs in the incubator and smirking "hehe".
How expensive the price of saury is, Xiao Ping knows how to do it. I am afraid that there are no less than a few thousand fish eggs on these aquatic plants, as long as half of them can hatch and grow to the size of more than two taels, it is millions of income for Xiao Ping, how can he be unhappy?
In the next few days, Xiao Ping would enter the demon refining pot every day to observe the changes in the fish eggs. The translucent eggs first become less transparent, and then a black dot appears in the middle, and the black dot tends to get bigger. This is exactly what happened when the eggs began to hatch, which made Xiao Ping more confident about successfully breeding saury.
A week after the saury spawns, the fry finally break free from the eggs one after another. The newly hatched fry are very small, no more than three millimeters long, and the body is almost completely transparent, with only the eyes being two black spots. These fry do not know how to swim, but only hang themselves on aquatic plants with their mouths, and rely on the yolk sac in their bodies to provide nutrients and grow rapidly. After two or three days, the nutrients in the yolk sac are depleted, and the fry are ready to eat. …,
Since discovering that the saury is spawning, Xiao Ping has been looking for information everywhere, wondering what to feed the fry. But no one had successfully bred saury before Xiao Ping, so he couldn't find any relevant information. Xiao Ping had no choice but to call Professor Song Tianming to ask him, but the authority on saury breeding did not have an accurate answer, and only vaguely replied that the fry generally feed on very small plankton, but in captivity, boiled egg yolks can also be used instead. As long as the egg yolk is boiled and ground into powder, it can be fed to the fry.
This is a good idea for Xiao Ping, there is nothing else in the farm, but there are enough eggs. So Xiao Ping immediately did so and began to use the yolk of the green-shelled egg to feed the saury fry that began to eat.
The animals and plants in the demon refining pot were originally growing faster than the ones outside, and the food that Xiao Ping fed originally contained almost all the spiritual liquid ingredients, so the growth rate of these knife fish fry was even more amazing. A week after hatching, the saury fry are generally more than a centimeter long, and they no longer need to eat any egg yolks, but can feed on relatively large zooplankton such as fish and insects in the pool.
The growth of the fry is so good, which also makes Xiao Ping very satisfied. However, at present, the two fish ponds in the farm are raising perch, and there is no extra place to put these fish fry, so Xiao Ping decided to raise the fish fry in the demon refining pot first. After all the bass is sold before the Chinese New Year, the saury fry are put into the fish pond to raise. Anyway, the area of the waterhole is much larger, and it can completely raise these fry.
Xiao Ping found another net with a slightly larger mesh, and separated an area in the corner of the waterhole for the fry to live in, so as not to be eaten by their parents. Xiao Ping went to great lengths to ensure the safety of the fry, after all, each of these fry is worth thousands of dollars when they grow up, and it is worth spending more effort for them.
In order to provide enough food for the fish fry, Xiao Ping had to go to the flower and bird market the next day to buy some fish and insects and put them in the pool. The fish fry originally lived in a unique environment like the demon refining pot, and with Xiao Ping's careful care, they naturally grew strong and fast. Xiao Ping estimates that by the time they are put into the fish pond during the Chinese New Year, these fry will generally grow to an inch long, and they will be easy to feed even if they are put outside.
Time flies, and it seems that it is already the middle of December, and even in Jiangnan, the weather is starting to get cold. It was Sunday, Xiao Ping didn't go to the driving school, but went to the field to collect a few vegetables, went to the fish pond to catch two fish, and left the farm as a guest with a few boxes of green-shell eggs and two boxes of tin maple buckets.
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