The moment Zhang Zian opened the door, Wang Qian, Li Kun and Jiang Feifei also arrived, and they all shouted in unison: "Don't move!"
A group of little kids were taken aback, and Wu Diangong's grandson shuddered and pulled his hand from the fish tank.
"You... who are you? What do you do? Who gave you the keys? Are you thieves? Are you thieves? Let me tell you, we are not afraid, the adults are inside the house!" One of the thick-headed and thick-headed little chubby yelled sternly.
A few other kids also echoed, "If you don't leave, we'll call you!"
Zhang Zian ignored them, and stared at the fish tank over their bodies.
It may be that the little kids took turns reaching in to muddy the water, and the fish tank was turbid, like looking at flowers in the fog or watching the moon in the water, and only the outline of the reef can be vaguely distinguished.
Seeing Zhang Zian and the others, these little kids didn't leave. Some of them were about to cry, some wanted to call for help, and some were at a loss.
Fortunately, two old men, Electrician Wu and Welder Zhao, climbed up the stairs wheezing and panting, and the little brats immediately had a backbone, and huffed and surrounded them to file a complaint.
"Grandpa! A thief broke into our house, call the police!"
"Grandpa Wu~ woo woo~"
"Grandpa Zhao, I'm afraid... I want my mother!"
The house was in chaos. The neighbor next door heard the noise and went out to check the situation, but was persuaded to go back by Wu Electrician and Zhao Welder after repeated apologies.
When Electrician Wu and Welder Zhao saw that the children were intact, they finally put their hearts back into their stomachs. They were old, and went up to the sixth floor in one breath, without a break in the middle, out of breath for a long time, watching the noisy children with love and hate.
Welder Zhao usually has to go up and down the sixth floor. His physical strength is better than that of Electrician Wu. He was the first to catch his breath and asked, "How...is that thing in the water...does it move?"
Zhang Zian had already approached the fish tank on guard.
He quickly glanced at the window and said, "Bobbit bugs are usually nocturnal. It is daytime and the sun is strong. It should hide in the hiding place and rest, and it will not come out under normal circumstances... But now it is being killed by children." We're pretty disturbed, and I'm not sure if it will..."
After such a short period of time, the dust stirred up in the tank has gradually settled, and the visibility has recovered a little.
Before Zhang Zian could finish his sentence, a black-brown shadow rolled up the sand and jumped out from between the rocks like a spring, biting a passing small fish fiercely, and then retracted with incredible speed.
The adults present basically saw this scene and were stunned.
"Grandpa, what's that?"
A few children also saw it and asked tremblingly in fear.
Zhang Zian is the closest to the fish tank, and he can see it most clearly. There are five tentacles growing on the top of the thing's head. Its arthropod-like body is smooth and smooth. Its strong mouthparts are like a pair of steel pliers. The bite force is extremely ferocious. What could it be
After witnessing it with his own eyes, welder Zhao's pretentious calm disappeared, and his back was crisp and numb like an electric shock, and he was sweating without touching it.
"Fuck!"
Electrician Wu cursed loudly, and picked up the bench next to him to throw it over.
"Old Wu! Don't! My fish tank!"
Welder Zhao was so distressed that he quickly grabbed Electrician Wu.
It took him several days to find five pieces of glass of the right size, cut and glued this big fish tank together. He didn't know how many mistakes he made in the process, and he couldn't bear to smash it.
Zhang Zian also stopped Electrician Wu, because the bobbit bug had already retracted into the reef, even if the fish tank was smashed, it would not help, but would make it escape from the fish tank. At that time, it will run around in the house, catch whoever bites, what should we do
Electrician Wu was so angry that his lips trembled, wishing he could tear that bug into pieces.
"Old Zhao! Explain to me! How did you get this strange bug in?" He pointed at Welder Zhao's nose and cursed sharply. The friendship boat that had been drifting for decades was about to capsize.
"This...how do I know! If I knew, could I still put it in?" Welder Zhao also complained endlessly. Even if he wanted to raise the child extensively, it was impossible for the child to have close contact with such a dangerous animal.
What he said was the truth, but Wu Electrician was stunned by anger.
Zhang Zian had already guessed the truth of the matter, and explained for Welder Zhao: "Master Wu, don't worry, isn't something wrong? Please calm down first. I already know what's going on."
"Ah? What's going on?" Welder Zhao also wanted to know.
"The problem lies in the reefs you hewed back from the sea." Zhang Zian stared at the reefs and said, "It's no problem to hew the reefs back as live rocks, but have you sterilized the reefs before putting them into the tank?"
"Disinfection?" Welder Zhao thought for a while, "I think the reef is quite clean, so I just connected the water pipe to the faucet and washed the reef once."
"No, that's the problem—whether it's a reef or a live rock, it must be rinsed and disinfected with boiling water after it is brought back, and it's best to rinse it several times, otherwise there may be some unexpected living organisms or biological eggs hidden in the ground. They were brought into your fish tank through the pores." Zhang Zian explained, "Both clamworms and bobbit worms are stowaways who sneak in like this."
Then, he added: "Of course, some senior aquarium players like surprises. They deliberately don't sterilize the live rocks, especially the live rocks from abroad. Wait and see what kind of stowaways will come from here after a period of time." The living rocks grow out of the gaps, and there may be unexpected and rare creatures among them, but you... are you obviously not such a veteran? And even these veterans dare to do this after they are fully prepared."
This bobbit bug, similar to the ugly duckling coral, is a stowaway attached to the live rock, which is not uncommon in the aquarium biosphere.
The official procedure is to sterilize the live rock with boiling water before putting it into the tank, but some veterans deliberately do the opposite and try to take a gamble.
It was also a gamble for Zhang Zian to spend money to buy Ugly Coral.
A small gamble is fun, but a big gamble hurts the body, just like the saying goes - if you win the young model in the club, you lose and go to work in the sea!
In general aquariums, live rocks are often sterilized before selling them to customers because they are afraid that customers will not know this procedure.
But Welder Zhao went to the sea to dig the reefs by himself, and he didn't know that they needed to be disinfected. It happened that a young Bobbit worm was hidden in one of the reefs, so something happened.
This bobbit worm is well versed in Taizu's strategy of "digging deep, accumulating food widely, and not pretending to be aggressive". The key is that its body can hide in the bottom sand and reefs, and it is nocturnal, so it will not be found easily.
So the next question is how to kill it.