358.Ocean Eel (3/10)
In addition to protecting the young cubs of other eeels, Qin Shiou did not want to directly exterminate these sea wolves.
Yes, sea wolves prey on fish, but not all the time. In general, hagfish and octopods feed on dead animals on the ocean floor most of the time. Obviously, dead fish are more accessible.
Usually when dead fish are found, they burrow into their bodies through their gills or body surfaces, scraping them from the inside out, leaving only skin and bones.
In other words, sea wolves, like fiddler crabs and hermit crabs, are seabed scavengers.
Let Shaq and the sea monster deal with these fish, Qin Shiou controlled the sea god consciousness into the fishing ground, and he was about to find a needle in a haystack, when he suddenly remembered the time when he met the trumpet fish more than ten days ago, and it seemed that he had encountered these guys.
At that time, he glanced at it roughly, thinking that it was an ordinary eel and didn't care, it seemed that he was careless.
Thinking so, Poseidon consciousness quickly drifted past following the memory, and at the bottom of an offshore water area of the former Mr. Ross fishing ground, a group of hagfish scattered to survive here.
These hagfish have lived in the darkless environment of the seabed for too long, and their eyes have completely deteriorated, although they still have eyes in name, but both eyes are covered by a layer of skin, and they cannot see anything.
But this does not mean that they are blind, and if they are blind, they will not be called sea wolves, you must know that wolves have good eyesight and sense of smell, and they are good at tracking their prey.
These hagfish have receptors on their heads and are covered with extrasensory cells all over their bodies, which allow them to correctly orient themselves and distinguish objects. Just as vultures are always the first to spot their dying prey, hagfish receptors sense the speed of a fish's metabolism and help them find dying fish and dead fish.
Don't look at them without eyes. These guys are very clever, sometimes they will chase the fishing boats to feed, burrow into the nets to catch the fish in the nets, and when the fishermen raise the nets, they will quickly escape from the nets.
There are also several large dead fish more than half a meter long in the area where these hagfish live. I don't know if they died of natural causes or if they killed them, but seeing the belly of these big fish squirming, you don't have to feel it to know what's inside.
It's really disgusting to think about it, Qin Shiou shuddered, this kind of parasitic thing is really disgusting.
What's even more disgusting is the appearance of hagfish, not to mention their resemblance to sea snakes. Not just the shape of their mouthparts, but their appearance, the glands on both sides of their bodies produce large amounts of fibrous mucus, which sticks to their bodies as if they were smeared with a layer of glue......
When Poseidon consciousness rushed over. It happened that a mackerel more than 40 centimeters long also swam over.
The hagfish felt the storage of mackerel for the first time, and five or six hagfish floated up as soon as possible. When the mackerel approaches, the hagfish quickly cling to it, and the mucus on their bodies comes into play, sticking their bodies to the gills of predators.
The good thing is that hagfish don't eat the guts of fish alive, and the mucus sticks to the gills and suffocates them to death.
Qin Shiou observed from the side. Within two minutes of the mackerel losing its gills, it flipped its belly and suffocated.
After the mackerel suffocated, a few hagfish stuck to its gills to tie themselves in a knot. Then straighten up and drill out of this knot, and lightly get rid of this slime.
There was mucus in the nostrils of a hagfish, and the hagfish poked its head forward like a person sneezing, and threw the mucus out as snot.
Then, the hagfish burrow into the mackerel's body in turn, and a big meal begins.
Other hagfish also heard the news. Share this delicious meal together. However, more hagfish slept lazily in the sand. A picture of no desire and no desire.
This is normal, and the rest of the hagfish are well fed and hold on. Once they are full, they do not move for a long time, and their metabolic rate is very slow, and they can go months without food.
Qin Shiou wants to gather hagfish to breed, which can be used for sale in the future, the price of hagfish is very expensive, the meat is delicate and tender, and contains amino acids, vitamins and minerals, suitable for the elderly and children.
In this way, he found a suitable sea area, and Qin Shiou used the sea god consciousness to shroud the hagfish in this area of water, and brought them over together - the place where crayfish were raised before happened to be in Mr. Ross's fishing ground.
Hagfish don't move much as long as they are full, so as long as Qin Shiou uses a batch of sick and dead fish from time to time, he can not only deal with these fish, but also breed hagfish.
After looking for hagfish, it is the eight-eyed eel, and the two sides have different predation methods, the former burrows into the belly of the fish, and the latter clings to the body of the fish to parasitize.
Qin Shiou had observed before that some fish were sucked dry of blood and flesh and died, and the internal organs were not moved, which was obviously the masterpiece of the eight-eyed eel.
There are two species of eight-eyed eels in North America, one is called the American stream lamprey, also known as the American eight-eye eel; The other is called the Lamprey's lamprey, also known as the Atlantic eight-eyed eel.
The American eight-eyed eel lives in freshwater rivers and is non-parasitic, while the Atlantic eight-eyed eel is the real vampire.
One day and one night, Qin Shiou roughly swept through the fishing grounds, and after looking for a while to no avail, he had to find snowballs and ice blades, and gave them a task to find this group of bastard eight-eyed eels.
The reason why hagfish are easy to find is that as long as you look for dead fish, where there are many dead fish, it must be the masterpiece of hagfish.
The eight-eyed eel clings to the body of the fish and does not die for a long time, so it is very slow to find.
Qin Shiou also wanted to give orders to the sea pythons and other fish, but it was useless, these fish and sea snakes were not as smart as ice blades and snowballs, and they couldn't understand the instructions issued by the sea god's consciousness.
can only give orders to ice blades and snowballs, Qin Shiou was a little depressed, he was about to run to find the eight-eyed eel by himself, and got the order of the Poseidon consciousness, the eldest of the seven brothers of the cat shark cried and cried and found it, and the other six brothers gathered around, shaking their heads and tails, and they didn't know whether they were in a hurry or gloating.
Qin Shiou took a look,, what's wrong with you, boss, why are there two eight-eyed eels lying on your body?
It really didn't take much effort to get it.
Qin Shiou removed the eight-eyed eel, and the cat shark immediately became energetic, it turned around a few times in the sea god's consciousness, and then gritted its teeth and rushed towards the depths of the ocean.
The other six brothers followed behind with shouting and drinking, seemingly cheering for the little brother, but no matter how obscene they looked, one was further behind than the other, and they seemed to be very afraid.
The cat shark has been rushing into the fishing ground more than 400 meters deep in the sea, where there are fewer fish, and most of the big fish can get here, and in this place, a group of eight-eyed eels are swimming slowly.
Feeling the sight of the seven catshark brothers, these eight-eyed eels immediately came head-on, and they needed to find a host to parasitize.
Seeing these eight-eyed eels shooting like a swarm of arrows, the cat shark boss who ran at the back decisively took the lead in turning around and running.
As a result, he didn't swim far, and found that the boss had rushed in front of him, and the boss was immediately furious: What about the trust between fish? Said that you didn't rush away, you said that you fled to the front of Lao Tzu in an instant, didn't you run away, did you practice shrinking the ground into inches?
The eight-eyed eels rushed up, just throwing themselves into the net, and Qin Shiou controlled these eight-eyed eels and sent them over together.
Different from lazy hagfish, eight-eyed eels are much more active, Qin Shiou has a headache, these bastards are so blind, how can they still run like this?
But it's normal to think about it, the eight-eyed eel and its distant relative, hagfish, are not the same thing, people are migratory fish, inhabiting the sea in the early years, growing up to swim to freshwater rivers to spawn, parkour experts who shuttle in the river and sea every year, can this be compared?
Eight-eyed eels and hagfish are not actually dealing with each other, their predators are different, which determines the conflict between them.
The appearance of hagfish is too terrifying, don't think that sea fish are stupid and bold, they will also be frightened by the hagfish's eyesless and noseless appearance, and run away from afar.
However, hagfish don't care, they can sense sick and dead fish, and these fish can't escape. Eight-eyed eels care, what they need is deception, and that's where we talk about their appearance and predatory habits.
Eight-eyed eels are different, they look much like ordinary eels, with a slender body and no scales on the outside. But they have terrible mouths, no jaws, just round mouths full of sharp teeth.
As long as the eight-eyed eels don't open their mouths, they are good guys and beautiful girls, and the fish are not afraid of them and will swim past them.
Therefore, where there are hagfish, there are generally no hagfish, and where there are them, there are no hagfish--the eight-eyed eels work hard to parasitize a fish, and before the fish has two sips of blood, the hagfish rushes up and directly sticks to the gills with mucus and suffocates to death......
Qin Shiou brought the two sides together, and he was simply going to brew a conflict! (To be continued)