Due to El Niño and global warming, wild bone corals around the world are facing a catastrophe. Some people even joke that buying some bone corals now may be more valuable than gold in 40 years...

Corals are both strong and fragile creatures.

They are said to be strong because they are constantly replicating and splitting, and can survive for thousands of years. The coral reefs formed by the accumulation of bones after death gradually rise and eventually float to the sea, forming a series of pearl-like reefs and even islands in the vast sea. For example, the Nansha Islands, and the Xisha Islands are composed of coral islands and reefs.

Without coral, China's territorial waters would be much smaller than today.

They are said to be fragile because although most of them live in tropical oceans, they cannot tolerate water temperatures above 30 degrees for a long time, otherwise they will excrete symbiotic zooxanthellae in their bodies and quickly move towards death.

However, the intensification of greenhouse effect has caused global seawater to continue to heat up, and corals cannot swim into cool waters like fish to inhabit. It may take less than 40 years. In 20 years, there will probably be no wild bone corals in the world.

In addition to rising water temperatures, seawater acidification and eutrophication are also important reasons why bone corals are facing catastrophe, and both are entirely attributed to the discharge of human domestic sewage and industrial wastewater.

The seabed of Dapeng Bay in Deep City was a water park with dense coral species more than ten years ago, but now it is a large underwater desert.

Against this background, the country decided to vigorously rectify the aquarium market and ban the mining and trade of wild bone corals, especially in the South China Sea. Currently, most of the bone corals circulating in the aquarium market are Indonesian, and this is the theory of breeding in the Philippines and Australia. But in fact, since it is profitable to dig corals, in addition to breeding, fishermen will also go to the sea to dig corals to increase production. Anyway, they are mixed together for sale, and it is difficult to tell whether they are artificial or wild.

There are not so many taboos for soft corals, because soft corals have high temperature tolerance and no risk of extinction for the time being, so there is obviously more types of soft corals in this store than hard corals.

The female customer had browsed the store before and seemed to have not found the coral she liked, and she looked disappointed. She shook her head, as if she was about to turn around and leave.

The owner of this coral franchise store intends to keep him. He raised his chin and pointed to the one hanging on the wall. He said proudly: "I have a license here. I have put a lot of effort into getting a license. My colleagues who joked about it before are now in prison. Today you are here, so why not wait, a batch of newly arrived corals will be delivered in a while."

"Oh?" The female customer suddenly became interested, "How often do you need to introduce a new batch of corals here?"

"The time is uncertain, it's about three months." The boss replied: "Often you go to buy new ones when you're almost finished selling. You can introduce which ones you sell well. At the same time, you can introduce a small number of new varieties to try selling."

The female customer frowned, "Your business method is too conservative. There are too few types and too few colors that make people unable to raise interest in purchasing, okay? For example, this large disc coral is only golden, and the brain coral is basically green. Whether it is a horoscope brain or an Australian donut, it is all green, dark green, light green, dark green. Do you like to give your brain green so much?"

puff!

Xiaoxue couldn't help laughing when she heard this, and the netizens in the live broadcast room also laughed so hard that their stomachs were ache, and she just regretted that there was no picture to watch.

The female customer spoke sharply, sounded like a veteran aquarium player, which hurt the store owner to look embarrassed and argued with a wry smile: "I also want to introduce more varieties, but the corals are too delicate, and I can't even raise many kinds of corals. After introduction, they must be sold as soon as possible, otherwise they will be hit on my hands."

This store owner dares to run a coral store and is definitely an expert in raising corals. The breeding level is definitely higher than that of this female customer, but he has to take care of too many corals, and each type of coral has different requirements for water temperature and light breeding environments. After a long time, he will definitely be exhausted and suffer heavy losses if he is not careful.

Zhang Zian felt deeply sympathy, but he did not intend to trek into this muddy water to avoid getting involved in it.

He focused on observing the corals currently on display in the store. As the female customer said, although there are many types, they are common colors. Although the colors are rich, they often lack the rare color. The tanks that feed brain corals are all green.

The color of corals is an important factor in determining price. Even for the same coral, the price can be several times or even dozens of times as long as the color is different.

Scarcity is precious, and everyone wants to raise corals with rare colors. Therefore, corals with rare colors are often sold out as soon as they appear in the aquarium market, and common colors are less popular.

Zhang Zi'an originally planned to go to other coral shops to check out, but when he heard that a new batch of imported corals would be shipped, he and Xiaoxue decided to stay and wait for a while.

Xiaoxue wanted to open her eyes, while he looked at each other with the female customers, tacitly thinking about taking Taobao. If he could find rare types of corals or rare colored corals, it would definitely add a lot of color to his aquarium.

However, this means his wallet is going to be bleeding.

Xiaoxue asked tentatively: "Boss, the landscaping tank display area outside is not allowed to take photos. Is this OK? I am an anchor. If possible, it may help your store promote it..."

The boss pondered for a moment. Seeing that Xiaoxue was a beauty, he reluctantly nodded and agreed: "I only shoot in the store. Actually, I don't expect any publicity. After all, those who raise corals are small circles. Those who buy corals in this city can only come here to buy them."

With his permission, Xiaoxue was finally able to take out her cell phone openly and use a camera to surround the store. The bizarre coral tank immediately aroused the exclamation of netizens in the live broadcast room.

Some netizens were dissatisfied when they heard the boss's words and said that they would come to this store to buy coral in two days, and they also specifically stated that they had watched Xiaoxue's live broadcast...

bite!

The elevator was parked on the second floor, not an ordinary elevator for customers, but a freight elevator dedicated to employees, with the entrance and exit wider than ordinary elevators.

"Flash! Flash! Flash! The one in front, please let me go!"

As soon as the elevator door opened, the employee wearing a fish market uniform appeared in the elevator with a cart carrying cart and whispered to the customers blocking the road.

The cart was filled with huge insulated boxes and looked quite heavy.

"Here you come." The boss was excited and quit the mobile game he was playing.

Zhang Zian and the others were also looking forward to it.
Chapter completed!