There really is nothing strange in this world, do you believe it? In 2000, a fisherman in Vietnam caught a strange fish in the river and took it home to feed, but after 10 years, someone offered 30,000 yuan to buy the fish, but he refused to sell it.
Does this sound a little strange, but this is really happening, what is going on? Let's take a look together!
Li Van Bang, Vietnamese, lives in District 1, Pei Youyi Fang, Can Tho City, Vietnam, Li Van Bang is an ordinary fisherman in Pei You Yi Fang, because Li Van Bang's home is near a big river, so he usually mainly catches river fish for a living.
In 2000, while fishing in the river, Li Wenbang accidentally caught a strange fish with a very strange appearance, he had never seen this fish before, but he thought that the stripes of this fish were very good, so he decided to bring this fish home to farm.
Later, after Li Wenbang asked several elderly fishermen in the village, he learned that this fish was called red-tailed catfish, and the Vietnamese also called this fish red-tailed cat.
The red-tailed catfish, known scientifically as the red-tailed catfish, also known as the dog whale, the warship platypussy, and the red-tailed duckbill catfish, is an ornamental fish mainly distributed in the Amazon River, Mekong River and other river basins.
Since then, Li Wenbang will take it to his home to raise as long as he catches this red-tailed catfish, and he has only eaten this fish once since breeding it, and Li Wenbang said that this fish tastes delicious and grits.
This red-tailed catfish is a fairly rare fish, and there are many red-tailed catfish farmed in captivity today, but there are fewer and fewer red-tailed catfish in the wild, and this fish has a large head that looks like a skeleton.
The skin of the fish is thick, white-bellied, black-backed, the tail fin is red, if it is farmed, usually the tail fin is not red, and the whiskers are usually white.
Red-tailed catfish is a very strange fish, they do not have sharp teeth, when preying, mostly suck or swallow to catch prey, red-tailed catfish's visual ability is very strong, they lock the prey, often hit a hit.
In addition, like cats, they have dense nerve fibers around their long beards, which can detect slight vibrations in the water very sensitively, and in some European and American countries, red-tailed catfish is the most popular species of fishing in fishing.
After years of fishing, Li Van Pong has more than 20 red-tailed catfish in his fish pond, and the price of wild red-tailed catfish in Vietnam has been high in those years, and 1 kilogram of red-tailed catfish can even sell for several million VND.
Lee Van Pong said that if he sold all the red-tailed catfish in his fish pond, he would make at least more than a billion Vietnamese dong, but he was not willing to do so.
This red-tailed catfish is native to the Amazon River basin in South America, and the red-tailed catfish grows fast, and its maximum size can grow to more than 80 kilograms, so it is often called the "Amazon monster" in South America.
In 2010, a wealthy businessman from Ho Chi Minh City approached him and offered to bid 100 million dong (about 30,000 yuan) to buy the largest red-tailed catfish in his fish pond, which was the red-tailed catfish he first caught that year.
But even so, Mr. Lee refused to sell it, saying that in recent years, as Vietnam's tourism industry has continued to develop, the profits of his fisherman's club have been steadily rising, relying on his own fish pond to collect tickets for tourists to feed the fish, and he has tasted a lot of sweetness over the years.
In addition to the red-tailed catfish, his fish pond also keeps other very rare and rare fish species such as tea fish and tiger fish, and using these rare ornamental fish species, he earns no less than the money he earns by selling tickets and surrounding seafood catering every year.
Mr. Li said the large red-tailed catfish, which grew to weigh tens of kilograms, was the treasure of their fish pond, and he decided to reject the rich businessman's offer for long-term interests.
Other rare fish species in the Li Wenbang fish pond
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