If there is an abundance of fish, Xiang Yang will quietly swim to a farther location to catch them and bring them back.
If the resources near this sea area are scarce, Xiang Yang will have to find a reason to let the crew go to other sea areas.
There is relatively lush seaweed under this sea area.
But there is no sea mud under the sea, only fine and soft sea sand.
Based on Xiang Yang's past experience, such sea areas are often relatively barren, and usually only have some shrimps and crabs.
Xiang Yang looked carefully among the water plants.
Seabed fishing does not necessarily require the existence of abundant marine fish in this sea area. As long as there are more shrimps or crabs, this sea area will also be a rich area for Xiang Yang.
Xiang Yang stopped in front of a very lush clump of seaweed. He saw a group of brightly colored sea fish with bodies as long as sea snakes emerging from the seaweed.
Xiang Yang recognized the identity of this group of fish; they were the famous ribbon eels.
The ribbon eel is also called the large-mouthed tube-nose eel, the blue-bodied tube-nose eel, or the colorful eel.
They are native to the western Pacific Ocean and are now distributed in the coral reef waters of the western Pacific Ocean and southern my country. They are a tropical eel and an invasive species.
The body color of young colorful eels is black, that of adults is blue, and that of old adults is yellow. They like to live on the cliffs of small sand ditches in coral reef areas. Usually several fish live in one hole. Whenever the tide brings plankton, they will stretch half of their bodies out of the small hole to prey on the plankton.
Xiang Yang raised his eyebrows and quietly took a few steps back. Although the ribbon eel looked beautiful, it was very aggressive. Although Xiang Yang was wearing a protective diving suit, he was still reluctant to provoke these creatures because he did not have any tools to catch ribbon eels. If his diving suit was bitten through, he would be really distressed.
The ribbon eel can reach 1.3 meters in length and can change color and gender. The male has a blue body, yellow eyes, and a light yellow dorsal fin. When it transforms into a female, the body gradually turns yellow and its shape is similar to that of a snake.
Of course, since Xiang Yang encountered this group of ribbon eels, he was definitely unwilling to let them go.
Eels are not expensive, but ribbon eels can be used as ornamental fish. Because they look like flying ribbons when swimming, they are loved by many people in the ornamental fish market. In the ornamental fish market, an ordinary ribbon eel can usually be sold for several hundred yuan. If the body color and appearance are particularly good, it can even be sold for several thousand yuan.
Xiang Yang was just about to quietly return to the boat to get tools.
Suddenly, his face froze and a hint of surprise flashed across his face.
"Colored eels are very typical nocturnal marine fish. No wonder they are still appearing in the seaweed so early in the morning. It turns out that these little guys are here."
Xiang Yang stared at a group of strange-looking little fish with great excitement.
This small fish looks exactly like a sock, with a black stripe in the middle and silver-white on both sides. Its head is very pointed and it gets bigger towards the tail, a bit like an irregular cone.
Xiang Yang recognized this group of small fish. They were called Piaopiao fish, a kind of small fish that was popular in all ornamental fish markets.
The reason why Piaopiao fish are popular in all ornamental fish markets is not because they look good. In fact, they are very ugly and have no ornamental value.
However, the Piaopiao fish is a very famous doctor fish in the ornamental fish market. Its ecological behavior is very unique. It will help other large fish to clean parasites. They will eat dead scales and parasites on the bodies of other fish. Other fish will generally provide them with shelters to quickly avoid predators.
However, Piaopiao fish cannot be raised by ordinary aquarium beginners or ordinary players.
It’s not that the Piaopiao fish is very expensive. Among the countless fish in marine aquariums, the Piaopiao fish is considered very cheap.
The reason why Piaopiao fish is not suitable for beginners and ordinary players of marine aquariums is that it is very difficult to raise Piaopiao fish.
First of all, you have to ensure that the aquarium has a cover or an anti-jump net. This limits the water tank for raising Piaopiao fish to be large. It is impossible to raise Piaopiao fish in a small fish tank.
In addition, Piaopiao fish needs to be raised together with a certain number of fish that can clean it. This type of fish is usually large in size and expensive.
In addition, raising Piaopiao fish requires certain skills. When Piaopiao fish are first put into the tank, they will not open their mouths to eat.
Experienced fish players will use live saltwater shrimp to entice them to bite.
Beginners of marine aquariums can usually only watch the piaopiao fish starve to death in the aquarium.
Once its mouth is opened, the Piaopiao fish will eat easily. It can accept some alternative foods, such as chopped seafood, shrimps, etc., and they will eat them all.
In addition, Piaopiao fish are very resistant to hunger and need to be fed at least three times a day.
It is difficult to feed and maintain nutrition, which means that the Piaopiao fish can only be kept by experienced marine aquarium enthusiasts who have time.
The ribbon moray is a nocturnal marine fish.
But Piaopiaoyu is indeed a "doctor" who works from nine to five.
They live in coral reef areas during the day, eating parasites and crustaceans from other fish. At night, they live in reef caves, where they not only stop hunting but also spit out mucus to cover themselves.
So this group of ribbon moray eels appear in the water plants during the day, actually they are "seeing a doctor".
It is also worth mentioning that, like the ribbon eel, the piaopiao fish can also change its sex.
The Piaopiao fish is monogamous and has a gentle temperament. However, if the male fish dies, the female fish will change sex to become a male fish. However, this is not absolute. If there happens to be a single male fish nearby, the female fish that has lost its mate will not change sex.
Xiang Yang didn't care about those ribbon eels. He rushed into the seaweed in a flash, grabbed a floating fish like lightning and stuffed it into the net bag.
When such a "giant" as Xiang Yang rushed over, the floating fish were immediately frightened and they jumped and fled in all directions at the tip of their tails at the bottom of the water.
The colorful kelps suddenly became ferocious, opened their big mouths and bit towards Xiang Yang.
Xiang Yang instinctively wanted to dodge, but when the time came, Xiang Yang did not dodge. He let the ribbon eel bite his arm, then raised his other hand and grabbed the eel in his hand.
Then Xiang Yang looked down at his arm and was delighted. Sure enough, this diving suit was very bite-resistant. After the ribbon eel bit him with all its strength, Xiang Yang didn't feel any pain at all, and there were no bite marks on the diving suit on his arm.
This time Xiang Yang was not polite. He dodged left and right among the water plants and caught all the streamer eels and floating fish in his net bag.
Soon, the net bag around Xiang Yang's waist became bulging, and he swam towards the surface contentedly.