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 felt the feeling of Billy suddenly seeing the shallow sea coral bushes in his fishing ground, which was incredible because it was a bit contrary to common sense!
Deep-sea corals are very precious. They are small in distribution areas, long in formation, are irreplicable, and are difficult to harvest in the deep sea, so they are valuable.
Unlike shallow sea corals, there are a large number of them in Australian waters and the South Pacific waters. Deep sea corals are mainly distributed in three regions: the Mediterranean Sea, Hawaii and surrounding Midway Island, Taiwan waters and southern Japan.
These three areas are the most common areas of volcanic earthquakes in the world. Volcanic activities on the nearby seabed are frequent, and new seabed volcanoes often develop, resulting in the seawater containing a large amount of constant elements 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 major sea areas, but the number is very small and not discoverable. There are three million marine shipwrecks in the world, and the number of deep-sea coral clusters must be less than 30,000, and they are all in the deep sea. Therefore, looking for shipwrecks is more difficult than looking for shipwrecks.
The coral bush that appeared in front of Qin Shiou was very small in area, less than a thousand square meters. The heights and sizes of the corals were different, with the center being more than two meters high, while the outer ones were less than half a meter high.
In addition, except for the different heights, the color of corals is also different. The outer edges are snow-white, slightly pink, and the middle is a flame-like crimson.
This is normal. Deep-sea corals are mainly divided into five categories according to their colors, namely, deep red corals, peach red corals, pink corals, pink white corals, and white corals. The more iron-manganese-magnesium elements it absorbs. The darker the coral color, the darker the color, and the higher the value.
Qin Shiou really thanks his second grandfather for being able to find this deep-sea coral in his own fishing ground. If shallow sea corals can be said to have been introduced by him, then these deep-sea corals would never have been introduced by him.
Because deep-sea corals are the longest life cycle in the world, especially red corals. They have a life cycle of tens of millions of years, so there is a saying in the jewelry market that "thousand-year corals are red for thousands of years".
What does this sentence mean? It is very simple. It takes thousands of years to grow into a deep-sea coral, and it takes tens of thousands of years to absorb iron, manganese, magnesium and other elements to turn red.
Even if Qin Shiou has the heavenly heart of the sea god, he cannot guarantee that he can form such a deep-sea coral in decades.
He shrouded the consciousness of the sea god on this deep-sea coral and could feel the weak but tough vitality, which proves that the vitality of this deep-sea coral forest is no problem. It is normal to think about it. Deep-sea corals are the creatures with the highest life efficiency in the ocean. They only need a very small amount of nutrients to meet their survival needs.
In order to protect this deep-sea coral forest, Qin Shiou quickly inputs the sea god energy, but after inputting it for a while, he is so tired. This deep-sea coral forest still has not changed, and even its vitality has not been much enhanced.
This is the difference between deep-sea corals and shallow-sea corals. If so much sea god energy is input to such a shallow-sea coral polyps, it is estimated that they can expand half of the area.
However, the energy of the Sea God is definitely useful to these corals, and at least it can speed up their reproduction. This is also a skill of deep-sea corals. Coral polyps can survive for thousands of years and have the ability to reproduce.
From this point of view, all the thousands of years, turtles, stand aside.
The output of the sea god energy was a little too much. Qin Shiou was so sleepy that he retracted the sea god consciousness and went to bed. Finally, he looked at the small coral jungle nostalgic again, and confirmed that he was not dreaming, so he closed his eyes.
In the morning, Qin Shiou heard a shout outside. After waking up, he rubbed his eyes and walked out of the villa. As a result, the bull came towards him with red eyes and shouted excitedly: "Captain, guess what did I see?"
Qin Shiou remembered the excitement when he discovered the red coral and asked subconsciously: "Damn, have you also discovered that deep-sea coral?"
The bull looked at him in shock and said, "Deep-sea coral? What deep-sea coral?"
Qin Shiou secretly scolded himself for being confused when he was sleeping, and beat him up, "It's nothing, I'm talking casually, what's wrong? What are you so excited when you see it? Your eyes are red, and you've found gold?"
The bull chuckled and said, "No, my eyes are red because I was working all night shift. Come with me, Captain, let you see the magic of the sea!"
Following the bull curiously, Qin Shiou walked to the beach. A distance between him saw a magical scene:
On the beach by the sea, silver-white cylindrical long fish were twisting their bodies. The new rising sun shone on them, reflecting brilliant colors!
Qin Shiou looked around and saw that there were these kinds of fish on the entire coastline. Some fish had their tails stuck on the beach, and some fish were hovering around, looking very happy.
After not staying on the beach for long, these silver long fish would twist and struggle and jump back to the sea. After about half an hour of watching, Qin Shiou returned to the water. There were only a few weak and weak people who were still struggling on the beach in vain.
Light-jawed silver-haired fish!
Qin Shiou has been studying marine life in the world and is naturally impressed by this fish specialized in North America.
Light-jawed silver hank fish live in offshore North America. They are a little similar to capelin, that is, they will lay eggs in the sand and hatch with solar energy.
Every March to August, this kind of fish will be seen jumping on the beach to reproduce. The ones that Qin Shiou saw before that the tails were inserted into the sand were female fish. They were laying eggs, while the male fish jumping around them, fertilizing the eggs.
Unlike capelin, the slim-jawed silver-hair fish have super strong physical strength. They don’t have to use the big waves to go to the beach. Whenever they reproduction, they will secrete a hormone in their bodies to stimulate their vitality and let them jump on their own and go ashore.
However, after hatching, the small light-jawed silver hank fish have no strength to jump into the water. They still have to rely on the tides at night to return to the sea with the help of the waves.
The light-jawed silver hank fish is a very interesting fish. They have a natural ability like jellyfish. The jellyfish predicts the arrival of the storm fifteen hours in advance, while the light-jawed silver hank fish predicts the tide ten days in advance.
These are all masterpieces of nature. The eggs of this type of fish rely on the sun to warm the sand to hatch, which takes about ten days, so they will take advantage of the ten days before the tide arrives to come to the shore to lay eggs. Ten days later, the tide arrives, and the young fish can go back to the ocean.
However, what Qin Shiou didn't understand was how could there be a tide in ten days?
According to his experience and weather forecast, only small tides are required at this time period, and small tides cannot rush up to the beach so far, and it is impossible to bring the small light-jawed silver hanyu back to the sea... (To be continued)
Chapter completed!