Chapter 537: Dragon Fish
"Hi, John, this fish is... a dragon fish!" Looking at the fish swimming in the fish tank in front of him, Jiang Hai asked with some uncertainty, because the fish in front of him at this time did seem to be a dragon fish, and it was a relatively expensive breed.
When Jiang Hai was in middle school, he had been raising fish for a while. Of course, he did not raise a variety of expensive species like a dragon fish, but some small broken fish. His father didn't know who was influenced by him and began to like raising fish.
At first, I just raised some small fish like phoenix tails, traffic lights, and submarines. Later, I felt that the small fish had no meaning.
I started raising maps, later raising arhats, and then raising parrots. I kept fish seriously for a while.
In the end, all these fish died, but they were with Jiang Hai for a long time. It was not until after he graduated from college that his father gave up raising fish because the fish tank at home broke. However, Jiang Hai followed his father to the fish market to buy fish since he was a child.
He still knows some knowledge about fish. At least he knows that arowana fish, which can be sold in the aquarium market, isn't these arowana fish used for ornamental fish? Why do the Washington Convention still care about this kind of fish?
"Oh, this kind of fish, I heard that it is indeed called a dragon fish in China, but here this fish is called the beautiful hard-boobed slut, which is a variant of the bone-boobed slut, and it is indeed a protected fish species in the Washington Convention." Hearing Jiang Hai's words, John also introduced it. Looking at the fish that had grown quite large in front of him, Jiang Hai also lay there and looked.
"This kind of fish is indeed very beautiful, but its research value is not too high, because it has been found all over the world." Seeing Jiang Hai seemingly interested in this fish, John here also came over and explained it to Jiang Hai.
Arowana, which is the beautiful hard-boobedient fish, well, it is better to call it arowana than to call it a scientific name.
This fish is a very ancient species, and can be traced to the ancient Carboniferous period 360 million years ago.
This fish already existed at that time and could compete with the ancestors of sharks. This fish mainly appeared in the Asian and Indian subcontinents 140 million years ago. However, with the division of Pangu continent and the movement of the earth's crust, this fish was also distributed all over the world. The first fish found in 1829 was found on the Amazon, but it was white and golden.
The most expensive blood dragon now was discovered in South Vietnam in 1933. In addition, the Asian Peninsula, Sumatra, Banga, Baltic, Thailand and other places produced arbors. Later, people gradually divided these arbors into several categories.
The cheapest ones are the silver dragon and the green dragon, and the ones up are the golden dragon, orange and red dragon fish, golden dragon fish, and platinum dragon fish.
The most famous platinum arowana fish is even sold for $300,000.
Of course, platinum arowana can not be cultivated. This kind of arowana needs to be albinoed with golden dragons before it can be cultivated.
This type of Burmese python is different. The chances of golden pythons getting albinism are very high, especially when artificially cultivated.
But these arowanas are definitely hard to come by. According to John's words, there is also a Chinese here.
According to the Chinese, the arowana here has almost all kinds of quality, after all, this is Boston. The United States is the boss in the world, and the aquarium he runs will collect some precious fish species from all over the world.
Few people don’t sell their face, so there are all arbors here, except for many silver dragons. Golden dragons, red dragons, blood red dragons, pepper red dragons, and even golden dragons on the back. If these fish were sold in China, the price was not average. However, although there are many people in the United States who raise fish, there is really no high price for fish.
"Anyway, I can't tell it, this fish looks good." John curled his lips and said.
"Haha..." Hearing his words, Jiang Hai also smiled. Can people's aesthetics always be forced to change?
John looked bad, and Jiang Hai had nothing to say, but after listening to his introduction, Jiang Hai was a little moved.
He used to follow his father and liked to raise fish, but later he went to college and did not live at home and did not allow him to raise these things in the dormitory. Jiang Hai was fine. Although he has raised a lot of fish now, he has never raised these ornamental fish.
The most important thing is that it sounds like this fish is still very valuable...
A platinum arowana is worth 300,000 US dollars, which is much more expensive than a big bluefin gold spear. Unless it reaches the level of the Fish King, a tuna may not be sold for 30,000 US dollars, let alone 300,000!
It seems that raising this thing is also a way to make a fortune. Of course, platinum arowana is not something that can be raised.
This kind of ichthyosaur itself is extremely rare. According to John's words, there are two types of platinum arowana.
One is the snow dragon and the other is the platinum dragon. Of course, the prices of the two fish are similar. The snow dragon is mutated by the silver dragon, while the platinum dragon is mutated by other arowanas. However, there are very few fish that can mutate.
According to some people, there may not be one of the million fish that can mutate, which means that the probability of mutation is one in one million. Well, this is almost the same as zero...
There are many offspring of arowana. Although the maturity period takes five, six years, or even more than ten years, a lot of arowanas will be born once eggs are laid. These arowanas are carefully taken care of here and do not takeout here, so there are really a lot of arowanas here, but there are not one of them albino for so many arowanas.
And the most important thing is that even if the descendants produced by using two platinum dragons are not used for many birds, they should not be released or not.
The success rate did not increase much, and Jiang Hai had nothing to say about this except Khan.
However, if he had cultivated himself with spiritual energy, he might not have had a chance to become like this.
Even if you can't get the albino species, it is inevitable that it will grow big and good. Americans have never thought of selling these fish to China, but Jiang Hai can do it. Thinking of this, he couldn't help looking at John.
"By the way, John, I'm very interested in these fish. Can you get me a few? Money is not a problem!" Looking at John beside him, Jiang Hai looked at him with a hot face, then lowered his voice and said to him.
Although his voice was low, Dominica next to him still heard it and couldn't help but mutter in his heart, "It's coming again!"
Jiang Hai really couldn't change the food, no matter where he went, he wanted to make these things.
She wanted to raise their brown bears again, and now she wanted to raise fish again, but this time, she did not scold Jiang Hai.
Because the number of these fish is not too small, wild ones are naturally very precious, but they can be cultivated manually, but the survival rate is slightly lower, which is far from extinction.
So when Jiang Hai wanted to raise this fish, she didn't care, but looked at the dolphin next to her. Leave this to Jiang Hai and John to talk about it himself. After John heard Jiang Hai's words, he couldn't help but frowned slightly.
If Jiang Hai wanted to buy other fish, he would have turned against him long ago, but to be honest, this kind of arowana is not very valuable.
There are quite a few things here just to increase this species. Now Jiang Hai wants to buy it, but he is not easy to say.
"We will definitely not sell it, but if you donate some money, we may give it to you." After thinking for a while, it is naturally not possible to buy and sell things from the US government directly, but if you donate money and give it to you, then let's talk about it.
Of course, he couldn't take the donation money, and he wanted to give it to the zoo.
Although it was just a different saying, it looked much better for outsiders. After hearing his words, Jiang Hai also smiled. Sure enough, this is not a difficult thing. There are really few things that cannot be done in the United States.
He verbally agreed to donate 100,000 US dollars. Of course, the fish he wanted must be worth more than 100,000 US dollars.
When John here was so generous, he seemed very happy and became more enthusiastic about Jiang Hai.
He was even asking what kind of variety Jiang Hai wanted and how many of them, so Jiang Hai smiled first.
He didn't even buy a fish tank now, so it was useless to be so anxious. Besides, he didn't come mainly to buy fish. After talking to John a few words, Jiang Hai followed him and continued to move forward.
After walking through the aquatic animal area, it is the terrestrial animal area. The terrestrial animals here are also at the protection level. Jiang Hai even saw Siberian tigers here. Of course, Siberian tigers are not the original people here. Siberian tigers are only produced in Northeast China and Siberia, the largest feline in the world. Uh, but now it seems that they are indeed smaller than that mountain lion. No matter which mountain lion, this is still the most powerful feline.
Jiang Hai was not surprised to see this guy here, after all, there are actually not many species in North America.
This is what everyone knows. After European colonists landed on the American continent, the species here were almost extinct, such as large cats, which rarely appear here.
After passing the terrestrial animal area, we came to the bird area. This area is very large and has various styles. Some small birds are just in some cages that imitate nature, while some large birds occupy a piece of woodland alone. When they came outside the largest woodland here, John and the others stopped because they arrived at the place.
Looking at the artificial woods in front of him, Jiang Hai was also looking upwards. Sure enough, he looked over with his eyes.
In this forest, there were a few black shadows standing on the treetops at this time, with a few fierce eyes staring at Jiang Hai and the others. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!