The wildness of the West African style was in sharp contrast to the emptiness of the Japanese style, and other landscaping styles were in between.
Zhang Zian introduced the landscaping styles of these fish tanks to Snowy, and even the other customers who were browsing nearby were fascinated.
"Is there any Chinese-style landscaping?" Snowy looked at it once and asked, not fully satisfied.
"Unfortunately, not at the moment, at least I haven't heard of it," Zhang Zian replied. "The Japanese landscaping started 40 years later than the Western landscaping, and it took a lot of effort to catch up. You know, in Japan, the cost of building and decorating the fish tank can be counted as a housing loan, which alleviates financial pressure. China started to become popular even later, and it takes time to form a unique style. Maybe in the future, there will be a Chinese-style landscaping. "
Snowy felt a little disappointed, but this kind of artistic thing could not be forced, and China was too big, and the major cities did not agree with each other. It was too difficult to form a unified style.
In addition to economic factors, the aquarium landscaping could only be done by those who had money, time, and the state of mind. China's middle class had the elderly and the young, and they were often very busy every day. There was no time to calm down. Most of the people who could play aquarium landscaping were old people with rich pensions, successful people who had achieved financial freedom, or enterprises and institutions.
After walking around the central display area, Zhang Zian needed to do his own business.
He walked to the front of the surrounding shops, looking for satisfactory aquarium supplies.
Snowy followed behind him. She did not understand these things, so she silently watched him pick up a handful of sand and pinch it, pick up a live stone to observe the color, and put it under his nose to smell it. He basically did not ask the shop owner, and even if he did, he only asked about the price.
When the shop owner saw him like this, they knew that he was an expert, and often quoted the bottom price directly, saving both sides the trouble of bargaining.
Zhang Zian walked to the front of a shop, picked up two long rod-shaped artificial stones, and knocked them against each other.
"What is this? Hollow bricks? "
Snowy noticed that the surface of the two artificial stones was covered with fine holes. They looked very light, which reminded her of the hollow bricks used as a building material.
"No, this is a bacteria house. It's a kind of filter material used to cultivate nitrifying bacteria." Zhang Zian handed one of them to her. "Most of the seawater tanks have live rocks to take on this task, so there's no need to add additional bacteria houses. However, FOT tanks, which are bare tanks with only fish in them, still need to be used. However, the bacteria house will become acidic after a long time, so it needs to be used together with coral sand. "
After that, he called out to the shop owner, "Give me one."
Not only did Zhang Zian buy a germ house from this shop, but he also bought one from every shop that sold germ houses on the second floor. He put the germ houses in different plastic bags and marked the name of the shop with a marker.
Without waiting for Snowy to ask, he explained, "The consumption of bacteria houses is very large, and we need to buy hundreds of pounds of them at once. But these things are mixed. I'll buy some samples first, smash them, and put them under a microscope to see the internal structure. Some bacteria houses are worse. They only have small holes on the surface, but the inside is all solid. I'll come back to buy from whichever shop has the best quality. Of course, I'll ask for the wholesale price. "
"Oh," Snowy didn't understand.
The two turned a corner and came to the front of a shop that sold corals.
When it came to corals, people often confused living corals with coral reefs and decorative corals. But in fact, living corals were a kind of creature, and the latter two were the remains of dead corals.
Seawater tanks were roughly divided into three types: pure fish tanks, coral tanks, and fish and coral tanks. The difficulty of raising corals gradually increased, but so did the aesthetics. Most seawater tank players hoped to have a perfect fish and coral tank.
Therefore, Zhang Zian needed to buy some different kinds of corals to put in the display tanks, which could stimulate customers' desire to buy more than a pure fish tank.
This shop specialized in selling corals, and the whole shop was filled with large and small coral tanks. Zhang Zian glanced at them roughly. There was a rich variety of corals, at least the common corals were quite complete.
"Huh? Are there corals on both sides? "
Snowy looked to the left and then to the right. The corals in the fish tanks on both sides of the shop were completely different. The corals on the left were like huge flowers blooming on the coral reef, while the corals on the right were like cactuses.
"Yes, they are all corals. The ones on the left are soft corals, and the ones on the right are hard corals. They are clearly differentiated." Zhang Zian walked to the side of the tank and carefully observed through the water.
After observation, he found that the corals on the left and right seemed to be evenly divided, but in fact, the soft corals on the left had more species, while the hard corals on the right had more species.
The charm of corals lay in their colorful shapes and colors, especially the hard corals, which were like a dense coral jungle.
Snowy almost stuck her face to the wall of the fish tank, admiring the beauty of the corals through the glass.
The coral tank was completely different from the previous aquascaping tanks, because aquascaping tanks basically used freshwater flora and fauna resources. It was beautiful, but it was not as mysterious as the coral tank.
There was also a female customer choosing corals in the shop. She seemed to have seen all the corals in the shop, but she was still not satisfied. She asked the shop owner, "Boss, are there any other corals? Is that all? "
"No, that's all." The boss was playing with his phone and answered without looking up.
The female customer was about 30 years old. She wore famous brands from head to toe and looked rich.
"All the corals here are farmed, right? Do you have any wild ones? It doesn't matter if they are more expensive. "She frowned and said," Do you have any from the South China Sea? "
The boss raised his head lazily and glanced at her. "No, the country doesn't allow them to be sold. Only from Indonesia and Australia. Last year, several people who sold wild corals here were taken away by the law enforcement department for investigation. They were released after a few days. After they came back, they closed the shop and left. "
Wild corals were of better quality than farmed corals, and their colors were more uniform. However, because hard corals were in danger of extinction, the country had banned the mining and trade of wild hard corals. The corals in the South China Sea were especially strictly protected, which made many veteran aquarium players feel that it was a pity.
At present, the main source of coral imports was the farmed corals from Australia and Indonesia.
Zhang Zian had also heard about it, but since the country had made such a rule, he could only follow it.
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