At present, Lishui Town is taking phalaenopsis orchids and lilies as the leading varieties, actively building a modern flower industry cluster of "production + processing + science and technology + tourism", and the Nanhai District Flower Horticulture Modern Agricultural Industrial Park, which is built with wanqing horticultural world, South China Sea Flower Expo Park, Dream Water Town Hundred Gardens and Dream Flower Field Project as the core plates, has begun to take shape.
From now on, Lishuijun will launch a series of columns of "Nanhai District Flower and Horticulture Modern Industrial Park • Fish Leaping Pastoral Garden" to introduce the famous and excellent products of Lishui ornamental fish and reveal the story behind the breeding of Lishui enterprises.
Two or three o'clock in the morning is a dream moment for most people, the noise and noise are lost in the night, and the whole city is only quiet. However, in the South China Sea Flower Expo Park (hereinafter referred to as the Flower Expo Garden), a stingray aquarium is brightly lit, and the farmer Zhan Guilin is working feverishly, cutting the fish tail spikes, pouring water, pumping oxygen, packing and shipping in one go. Strips of stingray with diverse patterns and rich colors are transported to Baiyun Airport and delivered to buyers across the country.
Stingray with a variety of patterns and rich colors
Ornamental fish farming is a rising star in the agricultural industry in recent years, with high added value of the industry and high content of breeding technology, mainly aimed at high-end market groups. Guangdong is the national ornamental fish trade center and logistics center, the first base of production, after several years of cultivation and growth, the Nanhai District Flower Horticulture Modern Agricultural Industrial Park has developed into a famous ornamental fish breeding base in the country, the ornamental fish trading volume of 70-80 billion yuan / year, the formation of the South China Sea Flower Expo Park, Wanqing Horticultural World as the two core of the ornamental fish breeding cluster, ornamental fish aquaculture has become one of the characteristics of the water advantages of the agricultural industry.
In the South China Sea Flower Expo Park, the park's "Flower Sea Fish World" covers an area of 300,000 square meters, in addition to the traditional flower enterprises, has been stationed in the ornamental fish breeding, sales enterprises, as well as professional ornamental fish packaging, aviation logistics industry enterprises more than 300, from the water of a flower and fish is decorated with Chinese poetic courtyard.
The aquarium heats up, and stingrays become a new favorite
Stingray, a more figurative name - manta ray, because of its appearance is different from ordinary fish, often active at the bottom of the water, full of mystery and named.
Stingrays are also known as "manta rays"
Walking into the "manta ray" breeding base in Zhan Guilin, the reporter saw that the strange color of the "devil fish" is "lurking" at the bottom of the fish tank, flat body shape, like a flying saucer in the water, the fins around the circle swim up, like a wave swing, and give people a very light feeling, like an excellent synchronized swimmer, unfolding a soft body in the water, the posture is very beautiful. Slender and long tail, with spikes, wielded and powerful, like a "thorny rose", with magical powers.
The fins in a circle around them swam and swung like waves
"The current ornamental 'devil fish' is mainly freshwater stingray, originating from the Amazon River in South America, you don't look at its flat body, such as butterfly wings, tail whip-shaped, strange-looking, but the value is not cheap, the general appearance of thousands, more than 10,000 yuan is everywhere, a snow-white squid, worth more than 100,000, but also booked to have goods!" Zhan Guilin introduced that the history of stingray can be traced back to the Jurassic period, and its life span is 30 years, which is much longer than that of ordinary pets, so it also attracts more and more suitors.
The price of a snow-white snow stingray reached 100,000, the interviewee provided a picture
You may hardly imagine that about seven or eight years ago, almost no one knew about this fish, but in recent years, the aquarium fever has heated up, and stingrays have also been favored by more and more players. The boom in stingray farming has gradually appeared in Southeast Asia, Taiwan Province and many large cities, such as Guangzhou, Beijing, Hangzhou, Shenyang, etc., and many people have found business opportunities in them - artificial breeding of stingrays.
A body length of 14-15 cm, palm size, growth cycle in 40 days of stingray can be sold, these small fish color gradually change, pattern began to increase, ornamental value and commodity value are improving, the price of ordinary varieties in about 500 yuan a piece.
Brightly colored stingrays
"There was once a college student buyer who had just graduated, rented a house for stingray, set up a fish tank, and spent every day to take care of his beloved fish." Zhan Guilin said that he is looking at the future development momentum of the aquarium industry, and now not only the older generation of players like to raise feng shui fish such as koi and dragon fish, but also more and more young players like to raise. "Stingrays are elegant and graceful, and their swimming posture is exquisite and luxurious, and it is difficult to fall in love with them!"
The cute-looking stingray has been sought after by many fish lovers
At present, Zhan Guilin's one-pint stingray aquarium has a breeding base of more than 4,000 square meters in the Flower Expo Garden, and a breeding base of 6,000 square meters in Taiwan, where pure-blood crown black and white stingrays, crown white seeds, black emperor white seeds, true red-eyed white seeds, straight line white seeds and other series of stingrays are bred, there are more than a thousand adult breeding fish, which can produce 500 high-quality stingray fry per month, with an annual output value of 7 million yuan, selling well in major provinces and cities across the country.
The Poinsettia Stingray Aquarium has bred various series of stingrays such as pure-blood crown black and white stingray, crown white, black emperor white, true red-eyed white, and straight-line white
"Just planned to buy a fish, didn't expect to buy a farm"
"We have to be very careful when changing the water, because its tail spikes are poisonous, and if they are accidentally pricked, the consequences are unimaginable, but at the same time they are also very squeamish and very demanding for breeding..."
White stingray with special grain
Talking about how to raise stingrays, the post-90s Chaoshan guy changed his shyness and became an expert and told reporters. "Stingrays are tropical fish, and the water temperature must be maintained at around 26-30 °C all year round. Because stingrays do not have scales, so the water quality should be very stable, the PH value is best maintained between 7.0-7.5, when changing the water can not be changed too much at a time, the water required for breeding should be oxygenated, chlorine removed, and left to stand for several days before it can be used. Zhan Guilin said that once the value is deviated, the stingray will react immediately, so it is necessary to observe the growth of the fish every day."
It is hard to believe that this stingray farming expert who is mature and sophisticated in farming technology is actually a novice who has been halfway out of the house. "I was first introduced to stingrays in 2016, and from being an aquarian player at the beginning to being a stingray breeder later, my relationship with stingrays was really amazing." Zhan Guilin recalls that in the past, he followed his grandfather in antique collection, but in recent years, the gradual rise of feng shui fish has made him aware of many rare fish species. Among them, the dragon tiger stingray is a famous feng shui tank decoration, a fish tank has three kinds of fish, dragon fish, stingray, these three kinds of fish in turn live in the upper, middle and lower waters of the fish tank, can coexist harmoniously, there is the meaning of the dragon leaping tiger leaping, the dragon and the earth tiger.
"The first time I saw the stingray, I was deeply attracted, although it lives at the bottom of the fish tank, not as domineering as the dragon fish and the tiger fish, but it is like a calm wise man, and the graceful swimming posture gives people a sense of satisfaction!"
Stingrays range from the bottom of the fish tank
With a love for stingray, Zhan Guilin went to the largest flower, bird and fish market in Guangzhou at that time to buy stingray, when the owner of the farm was a Southeast Asian person, planning to transfer the farm for sale, seeing that Zhan Guilin loved stingray so much, the two hit it off and sold the farm to Zhan Guilin. "I was just going to buy a fish to go back to, but I didn't expect to buy a farm!" Zhan Guilin laughed.
Today, Yipin Stingray Aquarium has 14 oversized fish ponds in the Flower Expo Park, and more than 200 large and small fish tanks, but there are only two staff here, one of which also includes the owner Zhan Guilin, which benefits from the powerful and efficient filtration and water circulation system of Yipin Stingray Aquarium.
The Stingray Aquarium has multiple fish ponds and tanks
Because the stingray is particularly sensitive, the water quality requirements are very high, so a product of stingray aquarium introduced an automated operation system very early, each fish pond, fish tank are equipped with a large pump, the flow rate is flat with the total water body, can be cycled more than five times per hour, large flow cycle can try to drive the flow of water, avoid the existence of dead ends, and better ensure the stability of water quality. In addition, a natural filter media is used here to bring the water closer to the original environment of the stingray.
The automated operation system introduced by the Stingray Aquarium can better ensure the stability of water quality
"Because stingrays eat fresh shrimp and loach, we just need to feed food regularly and pay attention to the health of the fish, and the rest of the water body heating and water system circulation are completed by automated facilities." Zhan Guilin introduced.
"You see, these are the juveniles that I personally 'delivered' to the female stingrays the other day, and as the number of juveniles breeds has increased, the 'nursery' has just been expanded to accommodate more than 3,000 juveniles, and now they are 'isolated' from adult stingrays, and when the juveniles mature, they are integrated into group life." Zhan Guilin said that only by really liking can the stingray be taken care of thoughtfully and get a higher return.
Newborn stingray
Quality is king, and the post-90s boys specialize in the genetic improvement of stingray
From novice Xiaobai to seasoned breeding experts, Zhan Guilin also paid a lot of "tuition" in the process of raising stingrays.
"In the beginning, I purchased a batch of stingray from Brazil for farming, and due to the unfamiliarity with the culture technology, the stingray has high water quality requirements, resulting in a large proportion of stingrays dying, and the survival rate is only a quarter." Zhan Guilin was not discouraged, feeling that being young was to give himself the opportunity to try and make mistakes. Therefore, he studied hard, consulted professional farmers, read a large number of stingray knowledge, repeated experiments, and finally found the cause of the stingray death.
In the tempering of wind and rain, Zhan Guilin, with his character of not accepting defeat, perfectly conquered the technical problems in the early stage, and now, Zhan Guilin's stingray survival rate can reach 99%. Subsequently, Zhan Guilin began to study the varieties and improve the genes of stingrays.
Meeks stingray, priced between 3000-5000
"No stingray has exactly the same pattern, and each fish has its own unique beauty." Zhan Guilin said that the most important principle of stingray breeding is pure blood, breeding a new species of stingray takes at least three years, need to go through multiple pairing experiments, so that the characteristics of stingray offspring are gradually stabilized, and then the next step of hybridization improvement.
Stingrays are oviparous animals, and baby stingrays are produced outside the mother after they develop into new individuals in the mother's body, and the number of reproductions per time is generally 3-5. As the size of the breeding fish grows, the more numbers can be produced, and a peak breeding fish can reproduce up to 15 fry.
Huge breeding fish
After 5 years of development, yipin stingray aquarium has gradually gathered a senior professional team, completed the whole chain of stingray breeding work such as fingerling introduction, breeding and breeding, small fish breeding, gene purification, etc., and successfully bred the highest quality crown black and white stingray.
Crown black and white stingrays have very high ornamental value
"The crown black and white stingray has a very high ornamental value and is the most attractive and classic species. Each stage of its growth will have different changes, and as it ages, the patterns on its body will continue to increase, until the entire back is covered with cute spots like tangyuan. Zhan Guilin introduced that at present, the crown black and white stingray is the most sold species, accounting for 60%-70% of the total sales.
Crown black and white stingray with even pattern distribution
In addition, the Poinsettia stingray aquarium has also bred "true red-eyed" white stingrays with stable genetic traits. In general, the eyes of the white stingray are "burgundy eyes", which are black as a whole, and red can only be seen at certain angles. The "true red-eyed" white stingray eyes are pure red at any angle, so the price of stingrays of the "burgundy-eyed" species will be higher.
True Red-Eyed"'s white stingray eyes are pure red when viewed from any angle
"Although the price of purebred stingray is high, fry can also achieve high returns, but if you want to let the company go further, the quality is better than the quantity, to create more varieties of excellent stingray is the long-term development strategy." Zhan Guilin said.
Dream Water Town Editorial Department
Source: Foshan News Network Reporter: Du Wanrong Photo: Chen Jiajun Correspondent: Liao Yanna
Proofreader: Jie Chen
Reviewers: Chen Shuyi, Zhu Jiayong, He Jinting, Wu Bixia
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