The wildness of the West African style contrasts with the emptiness of the Japanese style, and other landscaping styles fall in between.
Zhang Zian introduced the landscaping style of these fish tanks to Xiaoxue, and even the other customers who were casually browsing nearby were fascinated.
"Then is there any Chinese-style landscaping?" Xiaoxue looked at it once, and asked with endless interest.
"Unfortunately, not yet, at least I haven't heard of it." Zhang Zian replied, "Japanese-style landscaping started more than forty years later than Western landscaping, and it took a lot of effort to catch up with the last train. Fusang, the construction and layout of the fish tank can be included in the housing loan, which relieves the economic pressure. The fish tank landscaping became popular in China later, and it takes time to form a unique style. Maybe it will appear one day in the future Chinese-style landscaping."
Xiaoxue felt a little regretful, but this kind of art cannot be forced, and China is too big, and the major cities are not satisfied with each other, so it is too difficult to form a unified style.
In addition to economic factors, aquarium landscaping can only be done with money, leisure and mood, and the middle class in China, old and young, are often so busy every day that they have no time to calm down and play. Most of the fish tank landscaping are old people with rich pensions, successful people who have achieved financial freedom, or enterprises and institutions.
After visiting the central display area, Zhang Zian needed to get busy with his business.
He walked to various shops around, looking for satisfactory aquarium supplies.
Xiaoxue followed behind him, she didn't understand these things, she silently watched him pick up a handful of bottom sand and squeeze it, picked up a live rock to observe the color, put it under her nose to smell, basically she didn't ask the merchant, even if she asked Also just ask the price.
Seeing him like this, merchants know that he is an expert, and often quote the reserve price directly, saving both parties from the trouble of bargaining.
Zhang Zian walked to a shop, picked up two stick-shaped artificial stones, and knocked on each other.
"What is this? A hollow brick?"
Xiaoxue noticed that the surface of the two artificial stones was covered with fine holes, which looked very light, which reminded her of hollow bricks as building materials.
"No, this is a bacteria house, a kind of filter material, used to cultivate nitrifying bacteria." Zhang Zian handed one of them to her, "Most seawater tanks don't need to add extra because they have live rocks to undertake this task. The bacteria house, but the fot fish tank, that is, the bare tank, the kind with only fish in the tank, still needs to be used. However, the bacteria house will become acidic after a long time, and it needs to be used in conjunction with coral sand.”
After finishing speaking, he greeted the shop owner, "Give me one."
Not only did Zhang Zian buy a bacteria house from this store, he also stopped to buy one from every store selling bacteria houses on the second floor, put them in different plastic bags, and marked the name of the shop with a marker.
Without waiting for Xiaoxue to ask, he explained: "The bacteria house consumes a lot, and it costs hundreds of catties to buy it, but this thing is not good or bad. I will buy some samples first, smash them and put them under a microscope to see the internal structure. Some bacteria houses are more cheating, but there are pores on the surface, and the inside is all solid. Whichever one is of good quality, I will come back to buy whichever one, of course I will ask for a wholesale price.”
Xiaoxue let out a sharp oh.
The two turned a corner and came to a shop selling coral.
Speaking of corals, living corals are often confused with coral reefs and decorative corals, but in fact living corals are a kind of organism, and the latter two are coral remains after death.
There are roughly three types of seawater tanks, that is, pure fish tanks, coral tanks, and mixed fish and coral tanks. The difficulty of raising them gradually increases, but the aesthetics also gradually increases. Most seawater tank players hope to have perfect fish and coral polyculture tank.
Therefore, Zhang Zian needs to purchase some different kinds of corals and put them in the display tank, which can stimulate customers' desire to buy more than a bare fish tank.
This shop is specialized in selling corals, and the entire shop is filled with large and small coral tanks. Zhang Zian took a cursory glance and found that there are quite a variety of corals, at least the common types of corals are quite complete.
"Huh? Are there corals on both sides?"
Xiaoxue looked at the left and then at the right. The corals in the fish tanks on the left and right sides of the shop were completely different in shape. The corals on the left bloomed on the coral reef like huge flowers, while the corals on the right were shaped like cactus-like twigs.
"Well, they are all corals. The soft corals on the left and the bony corals on the right are very clearly distinguished." Zhang Zian strolled to the side of the tank and observed carefully through the water.
After observation, he found that the corals on the left and right sides seem to be evenly divided, but in fact there are more types of soft corals on the left, while the hard corals on the right are filled with numbers.
The charm of coral lies in the colorful shapes and colors, especially the hard bone coral, which is like a dense coral forest.
Xiaoxue almost pressed her face against the wall of the fish tank, admiring the beauty of the coral through the glass in amazement.
The coral tank is completely different from the previous landscaping tanks, because the landscaping tanks basically use freshwater animal and plant resources, which are beautiful, but not full of deep mystery like coral tanks.
There is also a female customer in the store who is picking corals. She seems to have seen all the corals in the store, but she is still not satisfied. She asked the store owner: "Boss, are there any other corals? Is that all?"
"No, only these." The boss was playing with his phone with his head down, and replied without raising his head.
This female customer is about 30 years old, with famous brands all over her body, and looks relatively rich.
"The corals here are all artificially cultivated, right? Are there wild ones? It doesn't matter if the price is more expensive." She frowned and said, "Are there any in the South China Sea?"
The boss raised his head lazily and glanced at her, "No, the country does not allow the sale, only Indonesia and Australia. Last year, several of the wild corals sold here were taken away by the law enforcement agencies for investigation. Put it back, close the shop when you come back, pack up and leave."
Wild corals are better in appearance and more uniform in color than artificially raised corals. However, due to the danger of extinction of bony corals, the country has banned the mining and trade of wild bony corals, especially the corals in the South China Sea are strictly protected. It makes many senior aquarium players feel sorry.
At present, the main source of coral imports is artificially raised corals in Australia and Indonesia.
Zhang Zian has also heard of it, but there is no other way. Since the country stipulates this way, he can only abide by it.