680. Fish that come ashore to spawn
The appearance of this deep-sea coral surprised Qin Shiou, which was completely unexpected!
At this moment, Qin Shiou realized the feeling that Billy felt when he suddenly saw shallow sea coral bushes in his fishing ground, which was unbelievable, because it was a bit against common sense!
Deep-sea corals are very valuable, they have a small distribution area, a long formation time, they are not replicable, and they are not easy to harvest in the deep sea, so they are very valuable.
Unlike shallow corals, which are found in the waters of Australia and the South Pacific, deep-sea corals are found in three main areas: the Mediterranean, Hawaii and surrounding Midway Islands, Taiwan, and the southern islands of Japan.
These three areas are the world's high-incidence areas of volcanic earthquakes, the volcanic activity of the nearby seabed is frequent, and there are often new submarine volcanoes developing, and the sea water contains a large number of macroelements such as iron, manganese and magnesium, which provides extremely important material conditions for the emergence of deep-sea corals.
In addition to these areas, there must be deep-sea corals in all seas, but the number is very small, not discoverable, there are three million shipwrecks in the world's oceans, and the number of deep-sea coral bushes must be less than 30,000, and they are all in the deep sea, so it is better to look for shipwrecks than to find shipwrecks.
The coral bush that appeared in front of Qin Shiou was very small, less than a thousand square meters. Corals vary in height and size, with the central ones being more than two meters tall and the outer ones being less than half a meter tall.
In addition, in addition to the height difference, the color of the coral is also different, they are snow-white on the outside, pink on the inside, and flaming crimson in the middle.
This is normal, deep-sea corals are mainly divided into five main categories according to color, which are dark red coral, pink coral, pink coral, pink white coral, and white coral. The more iron-manganese-magnesium elements are absorbed, the darker the color of the coral. The darker the color, the higher the value.
You can find this deep-sea coral in your own fishing grounds. Qin Shiou really has to thank the second grandfather for blessing him in heaven, if the shallow sea corals can be said to have been introduced by his old man, then these deep-sea corals can never be introduced by him.
Because deep-sea corals are the world's longest-lived organisms, especially red corals, which have a life cycle of tens of millions of years, there is a saying in the jewelry market that 'thousand-year-old corals are ten thousand years red'.
What does this mean? Quite simply, it takes a thousand years to grow into a deep-sea coral. After 10,000 years of absorbing iron, manganese and magnesium elements, it can turn red.
Even if Qin Shiou had the heart of the sea god against the sky, he didn't dare to guarantee that he would be able to form such a deep-sea coral in a few decades.
He shrouded the Poseidon consciousness on this deep-sea coral, and could feel the weak but tenacious vitality of the vitality, which proved that the vitality of this deep-sea coral forest was okay. It's normal to think that deep-sea corals are the most efficient creatures in the ocean, requiring only a very small amount of nutrients to meet their survival needs.
In order to protect this deep-sea coral forest, Qin Shiou hurriedly entered the Seagod's energy, and as a result, he entered it for a while. I'm tired, this deep-sea coral forest still hasn't changed, and even the vitality of life hasn't strengthened much.
This is the difference between deep-sea corals and shallow sea corals, if so much Poseidon energy is injected into such an area of shallow sea polyps. It is estimated that half of the area can be expanded.
However, Poseidon energy is definitely useful for these corals, at least it can speed up their reproduction, which is also a skill of deep-sea corals. Polyps can live for thousands of years and have the ability to reproduce.
From this point of view, what a thousand-year-old king eighty-thousand-year-old turtle. Stand aside.
The output of the sea god energy is a bit much, and Qin Shiou is sleepy. He retracted the consciousness of the sea god and went to sleep, and finally he glanced at this small coral jungle with nostalgia, and made sure that he was not dreaming, so he closed his eyes.
In the morning, Qin Shiou heard shouting outside, and after waking up, he rubbed his eyes and walked out of the villa, but the bull came with red eyes and shouted excitedly: "Captain, guess what I saw?!" ”
Qin Shiou remembered his excitement when he discovered red coral, and subconsciously asked, ", have you also found that deep-sea coral?" ”
The bull looked at him in amazement and said, "Deep sea coral? What deep-sea corals? ”
Qin Shiou secretly scolded himself in his heart for being confused, and said with a haha: "It's nothing, I said it casually, what's wrong, what are you so excited about?" The eyes are all red, and you have found gold? ”
The bull laughed, "No, my eyes are red because I was on the night shift all night. Come with me, Captain, and let you see the magic of the sea! ”
Curiously following the bull, Qin Shiou walked to the seaside, and after a distance, he saw a magical scene:
I saw that on the beach by the sea, the silver-white pike long fish were writhing their bodies, and the newborn morning sun sprinkled the sun on them, reflecting brilliant colors!
Qin Shiou looked at it, and the entire coastline was full of this kind of fish, some of which had their tails stuck in the beach, and some of which were hovering and bouncing around, looking very cheerful.
It doesn't take long to stay on the beach, and these silver long fish will twist their bodies and struggle to jump back into the sea, so that Qin Shiou will watch for about half an hour, and the silver long fish will return to the water, only a few are weak and weak, and they still stay on the beach and struggle in vain.
Bare-jawed silver fish!
Qin Shiou has been studying the world's marine life and is naturally impressed by this fish, which is unique to North America.
The barejaw silverfish live off the coast of North America and are similar to capelin in that they lay their eggs in the sand and hatch them on solar energy.
Every year from March to August, this fish will be seen jumping on the beach to breed, and the ones that Qin Shiou saw before with their tails stuck in the sand are the females, who are laying eggs, and the males who are bouncing around, fertilizing the eggs.
Unlike capelin fish, barejaw silverfish are super strong, they don't have to use big waves to go to the beach, and every time they reproduce, they will secrete a hormone in their body to stimulate their vitality, so that they can jump on their own and go ashore.
However, after hatching, the small barejaw silverfish does not have the strength to jump into the water, and they still rely on the tides at night to return to the sea with the help of the waves.
The barejawed silverfish is a very interesting fish, they have the same innate ability as jellyfish, which predicts the arrival of storms fifteen hours in advance, and the barejaw silverfish that predicts the arrival of a high tide ten days in advance.
This is a masterpiece of nature, and the eggs of this fish rely on the sun to warm the sand and take about ten days to hatch, so they will come to the shore to lay their eggs ten days before the tide arrives. Ten days later, when the tide arrives, the juveniles can return to the ocean.
However, what Qin Shiou didn't understand was, how could there be a sea tide after ten days?
According to his experience and weather forecast, only small tides are right at this time of day, and it is impossible for small tides to wash up so far on the beach to bring the small barejaw silverfish back to the sea...... (To be continued......)