602. Conspiracy succeeded (2/?)
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The fake dormant of abalone has become an important turning point in the transaction between the two parties.
A scholar named Kris Koen who discovered this incident, he found that these precious abalones suddenly stopped moving and immediately felt that something was wrong.
Unlike other shellfish, abalone is not a species that will no longer change once the living environment is selected. They live a life of hiding day and coming out at night. When the day is full of light, they will hide quietly at home to accumulate energy. When the night comes, they will go out to hunt.
In addition, the living environment that Balzac arranged for B.C. abalone is very good. The fish tanks they survive are seven or eight meters long and four or five meters wide. It is said that they were used to breed small sharks before, so that the activities of B.C. abalone are not restricted.
British Columbin abalone likes to grow in reefs with rapid water and lush seaweed and in the corners of rock spit out of the coast. There is a corner of the large fish tank where some reefs with brown algae are placed, and this is the home of abalone.
In addition to hiding during the day and coming out at night, British Columbia spotted abalone has a habit of returning to the nest. No matter how far you climb out to hunt, when it is almost dawn, it will always slowly crawl back to its own "home" and will not stay outside casually.
The abalone in the fish tank gradually weakened their vitality, and their speed of traveling slowly became particularly slow, and the food placed in it was not touched, and it was distributed in the fish tank in a scattered manner.
After the experts discovered the problem, they immediately rescued the abalone. But no matter how they studied it, they could not find the reason why these abalones went dormant.
At this time, when Balzac saw that the situation was not good, he had to reuse these abalones as waste and contact Qin Shiou to negotiate again.
"If you want to get BC spotted abalone, you will not only allow us to catch those colorful crayfish, but also assist us in catching leatherback turtles. Of course, we will not harm leatherback turtles, and lobsters will try to keep their normal life as much as possible." Balzac said.
Qin Shiou expressed his questions in a timely manner: "Why did you suddenly want to trade again? I think something must have happened."
He was not worried that these people would speculate that he had done something, because since he realized that he was interested in abalone, he left someone on the boat on duty for 24 hours, and the abalone fish tank was locked into the captain's room. Qin Shiou had no chance to get in touch with these abalones.
Balzac laughed and said, "No, no, no. We were just moved by your sincerity. We have asked about your character in the town these days, Mr. Qin, your love for fishing grounds is enough to make us believe that you really want to breed BC spotted abalone to expand this species instead of eating it."
Qin Shiou secretly scolded the intellectuals for their conscience. You are moved by your sincerity? Then why are you moved until the abalone is about to die?
But he didn't care about this. Now his purpose was to get the abalone, so he quickly negotiated with Balzac. He helped the No. 2 ship to catch leatherback turtles and lobsters, and gave him the immortal British Columbian abalone.
The experts also feel that they have taken advantage of it. The abalone is very slow to move, so they will not move after being caught. They cannot tell whether they die or not.
After obtaining these fifty British Columbian abalones, Qin Shiou smiled and put them into the coral reef waters.
Of course, in order to reduce the experts' doubts about this matter, he also pretended to check the situation of these British Columbian abalones.
Qin Shiou checked the age of abalone, similar to that of trees. Generally, every year, abalone will leave a deep mark on its shell. This mark is called growth patterns, which is equivalent to the annual rings of trees.
Generally speaking, the obviousness of the growth streak is related to the living environment, season and the type of bait in which the abalone is located. In the season when the growth is fast, the growth streaks are obvious and the distance is wider; in the season when the growth is slow, the growth streaks are dense and the distance is closer.
Qin Shiou looked at it and found that the largest abalone is the size of his palm. The growth wheels on the carapace are 40 or 50. They are the old birthday stars in this race. No wonder the experts refused to hand over these abalones to him before, because they are indeed very precious.
"Okay, these abalones are fine." Qin Shiou nodded, and the experts said that of course it was fine. In his heart, he laughed at Qin Shiou's aside. Seeing the vitality of British Columbian abalones, they would not move, otherwise they would not move.
Qin Shiou also laughed secretly in his heart. After throwing the abalone into the water, he removed the control of the sea god consciousness and took the opportunity to input a large amount of sea god energy. The British Columbian abalones quickly became active and began to hunt as soon as they entered the coral reef.
The heads of these abalones have a pair of slender antennae, the eyes grow at the base, and the mouth is on the ventral surface between the antennae. In addition, the abalone has a large wrist, with a jaw and a tooth tongue on it, and there are many tooth tongues, which are located on a tooth tongue belt. The entire tooth tongue belt looks like a file.
Abalone uses teeth and tongue to grab food, mainly zooplankton, red algae, green algae, seaweed, kelp, etc.
One of the characteristics of BC spotted abalone is very interesting, that is, when they eat something, their shells will grow in a similar color to the food they eat. Therefore, the back shell of this abalone will look like spots because the color of the shell changes after eating seaweed, kelp, and red algae.
The algae resources in the coral reef waters are extremely rich. Even before night, abalones will go out to hunt under the stimulation of the energy of the sea god.
After eating and drinking, the abalones will find gaps on the coral reefs to settle down. In this way, as long as the surrounding environment does not change significantly, they will use this as their base camp to survive, and will come back during the day no matter where they go at night.
British Columbian abalone has a large and plump meat. Their appearance quickly attracted the surrounding predators, and some fish and shrimp that feed on shellfish rushed over.
Although abalone has a cute and stupid appearance, they are actually good at protecting themselves. As long as they stick their wrist feet to the reef, they can generate more than 200 kilograms of suction. It is absolutely impossible for big fish to eat them by suction.
The only thing that can affect the survival of BC spotted abalone is the sparrow-tailed mantis shrimp. These guys are very good at smashing the shells of food. The shells of abalone are not too hard and cannot withstand the critical strikes of mantis shrimp.
Qin Shiou had to go out by himself, instilling a consciousness in the mantis shrimps that he was not allowed to prey on coral reefs.
In this way, the mantis shrimps will subconsciously avoid coral reefs and avoid entering this area, and follow the instructions of the sea god consciousness.
Qin Daguan Ren relies on his chastity and integrity when he walks around the world. Virginity has been taken away by Winnie, and the rest is precious integrity.
Since he promised to help the experts catch lobsters and leatherback turtles, that's what he did.
It is easy to catch lobsters. If the water is shallow, he can just slap the lobsters and fish them up. If the water is deep, then put down the shrimp cage and you will get a harvest in half a day.
The more difficult thing is to capture the leatherback turtle. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!