Woo hoo and fish and bear paws
<h1>Excuse me, excuse me, I'm a buoy! </h1>
Welcome friends back to this somewhat different ornamental fish column once again.
Last month, a fan of the uproar asked me a question: Do you think the millennium grass roe is real?
Originally, I just casually asked, and I also casually expressed my opinion, but I didn't take it seriously, and I always felt that there would be few friends interested in this kind of question.
Yesterday, i saw a friend who wrote an article to share his experience with "thousand-year-old grass roe".
Maybe he was worried about being sprayed, but this friend only stated the facts and did not conduct a deep analysis.
I am not afraid of being sprayed, so I will combine my own practical experience and experimental results to discuss and clearly give my conclusions.
The conclusion of the quake is: I don't understand the thousand-year-old grass roe, I don't comment on it, and the ten-thousand-year-old fish roe is impossible.
Many friends can't think straight about this problem, and they have figured it out, and they have seen it and done experiments, and I will find a way to let you think through this problem today.
Is your brain ready? Please accept my indoctrination!
This article is suitable for inquisitive aquarists, not for friends who only love to eat fish. Expected reading 218 seconds.
Pretty baby medaka
<h1>Can fish grow in wild ponds? Of course! </h1>
The small fish in the picture above is called "Beautiful Baby Medaka", native to Africa, and is a short-lived ghost that can only live for about a year. This type of fish is called "egg medaka" by professional players.
However, don't look at its short life, its fertilized eggs are indeed very long-lived. In an arid environment, its eggs can live for many years, and the data available so far show that they can live for at least 2 years.
The eggs of this fish are also made into toys, taking a very interesting name, called "magic fish", which sells very well on an e-commerce platform, most of which are bought for children to play, and there are also a few big masters who enjoy it.
In Africa, when it rains, small puddles form on the ground, and as long as there are medaka eggs in the soil, they can quickly hatch into small fish, which is not surprising.
Some friends know the "three-eyed dinosaur shrimp", it also has similar skills, it is said that its eggs can live for hundreds of thousands of years, but it is not actually a shrimp, but an insect, we will no longer analyze here.
Having said all this, it seems that the boy is punching in the face, is this not a proof of the idea that "fish can grow in the wild"?
wrong! Big mistake!
Because this is a rare exception in the fish world, in addition to medaka, you really can't find the eggs of other freshwater fish that can live in a dry environment for more than a year, if there is, it has long been made into toys by chinese people who are good at making money and selling to children.
Some fish can survive in arid environments for a period of time, but that doesn't mean their eggs can't either.
What's more, the term "fish roe" in the mouth of the millennium grass is in China, and the "fish roe" in the mouth of the Chinese can not refer to medaka, but mostly refers to crucian carp.
crucian
<h1>Crucian carp can fall from the sky, it's true! </h1>
If there are fish in a pool, there are only ten possibilities.
The first is to connect with other water systems and swim in from other water systems.
Second, there are fertilized eggs of drought-tolerant fish in the soil.
Third, there are fish fertilized eggs in the rain.
Fourth, the fish will walk on land on their own and wander around on their own.
Fifth, it is brought over by other amphibians or wild cats and dogs to fertilize eggs.
Sixth, live fish or fertilized eggs brought over by birds.
Seventh, live fish that have been stocked by humans.
Eighth, some kind of bug turned into a fish.
The ninth is a prank that aliens engage in after traveling through time and space.
Tenth, the tornado forcibly carried the small fish.
Whether the possibilities are great or not, there are only these ten possibilities, and there is nothing else, right?
Next, let's use a scientific method to find the correct answer, the name of this method is - the method of elimination.
The idea of the sissy: to gather all the possibilities together, and then to rule them out one by one, and the answer that is left at the end, even if it is incredible, please believe it - that must be the truth!
We can first exclude the first one, because this has no value for discussion, and everyone must have no opinion. If the wild pond is connected to other water systems, no one doubts the source of the fish, and there is no value in discussion.
Let's talk about the second kind - there are fertilized eggs of fish in the soil. In Chinese mainland, we have not found any kind of fish with the supernatural ability of medaka with fertilized eggs, not to mention that when we say "fish growing out of the soil", we mostly refer not to medaka, but to fish such as crucian carp loach ears of wheat, and more often, we refer to crucian carp.
Speaking of which, I want to tell a story.
There is a koi floor jar. In the spring of the previous year, I did not intend to raise koi in the ground tank, but wanted to try to raise lotus flowers, so the ground tank was modified. If you want to raise lotus flowers, you naturally have to have silt, so I retrieved a lot of semi-dry silt from the bottom of my fish pond, piece by piece.
Notice that there have always been a lot of crucian carp living in that pond.
After tossing and turning for a year, the lotus flowers were not well raised, but I had never seen crucian carp emerge from the tank.
Practice makes the truth - the mud of the old pond where crucian carp has been raised for more than ten years does not have the live fertilized eggs of crucian carp, so why do you make me believe that there are live crucian carp fertilized eggs in the wild soil?
Let me tell you another story.
Ten years ago, for some reason, my family's two-acre earthen pond was deactivated, and all the water in the pond was emptied. This pond is used to raise crucian carp, crucian carp that has been kept for nine years.
In 2016, in order to expand operations, it was necessary to add water to this long-abandoned pond. Because it has not been used for a long time, the pond is so badly seeped that the fry cannot be stocked. Only constant hydration to maintain water levels. After a year of replenishment, the pond was abandoned due to poor water retention.
After a month of abandonment, the pond water has all seeped out, and not a single crucian carp has been seen.
So allow me to rule out the second possibility. If you have to raise the bar and say that my earthen pond, which has raised crucian carp for nine years, is a special case, I seem to have no way to do it. If your line of thinking is true, it can only be understood that there are no fish eggs in the ponds where crucian carp has been raised, but there are crucian carp eggs in the wild ponds where crucian carp has not been raised. I can't think of any other reason than to raise the bar.
The third possibility is that there are fish fertilized eggs in the rain. Believe it or not, I don't believe it anyway. The essence of fish is water evaporated from the ground, and if you say that there are bacterial viruses in this part of the water, I believe it; if you say that there are fish fertilized eggs in the evaporated water, I don't believe it. So, the brawler stubbornly rules out the third possibility.
The fourth possibility is that the fish will walk on its own.
It is true that in the south of our country, there is really a freshwater fish that may hang out on its own on land, called "over the mountain carp", which is said to taste good. Unfortunately, it is neither crucian carp nor loach, but a species of sea bass. I haven't seen the usual crucian carp wandering around anyway. So I ruled out that possibility.
The fifth possibility was brought over by other land animals.
Let's assume a scenario where a single frog is foraging in a fish pond just in time for a male and a female to do something shy, and the female is desperately throwing her eggs.
Just so, the frog passing by was thrown by the mother fish with a face of fertilized eggs. Fish fertilized eggs are very sticky.
So, the frog was depressed, felt that his self-esteem had been hit by ten thousand points, and decided to go to another pond to fight the tooth sacrifice.
Walking and walking, the frog carrying the fertilized eggs of fish found a new pond and decided to catch bugs here.
In this way, the fish eggs come to the new pond, and the fertilized eggs hatch into fish.
So, the possibility exists. But there is a limitation here, that is, the distance between the two ponds cannot be too far, otherwise the frog cannot do it.
In any case, there is a statement that can be justified. Let's put that narrative aside, and we'll continue to rule it out.
The sixth possibility is that birds play the role of porters.
Birds may carry small fish, or they may carry the fertilized eggs of fish.
Let's start with the first one.
Every June, I see large flocks of water birds coming to "steal" my koi seedlings.
Dozens of white water birds plunged into the pond one after another, each holding a koi seedling that I had worked so hard to cultivate in its mouth.
Note that this water bird does not eat the small fish immediately, but continues to fly in its mouth until it finds a place where they think it is safe, and before that, you can see the red fish struggling desperately in their mouths.
Most small fish can't escape the fate of death, but there are always lucky ones.
Some water birds are more stupid, the bird's beak does not clamp the fish tightly, the small fish continue to struggle, you can escape the bird's mouth, back to another fish pond or grass again, those who happen to fall into the water have a chance to continue to survive.
As a result, in the fish ponds where koi fry are not stocked, there are also koi fry. For example, in the pond mentioned above, where the water is very strong, although no crucian carp is found, koi seedlings are found. Note that I have never raised koi in this pond, and I have not artificially stocked koi seedlings. Moreover, all the koi species found in this pond are all original species in my fishery, without exception.
That is to say, water birds do not show mercy and free airlift small fish, but objectively there are very stupid water birds, which inadvertently play the role of "charity couriers".
Crucian carp can live for at least an hour without water, and a few exaggerated cases have shown that crucian carp can even live for 12 hours from the water. I don't want to debate here about how long it can live, you just need to know that crucian carp can really live a long time away from the water.
If the water bird has been returning to the nest with a small crucian carp in its mouth, and it happens that it has been a stupid bird, it is entirely possible to carry the crucian carp from a fish pond to a puddle formed by rain. This possibility is very likely.
Hurrah to the point! It is a small probability event that a stupid bird has lost its own fish, and it is a high probability event for a bird in a group of water birds to lose its own fish, not to mention, this group of birds is to catch fish every day all year round, not to mention, there is more than one flock of birds! It's not so strange that these little fish thrown away by stupid birds just fall into puddles in the wild. In addition, many water birds nest not far from the shore, and water birds roost after aquatic grasses.
In addition, during the breeding season of fish, some water birds will feed in the shallow waters of the pool, and their claws and legs may also stick to the fish fertilized eggs. This approach also makes sense.
The seventh is artificial delivery. If it is a pond that has existed for a long time, the possibility of artificial stocking of fish exists, and if it is a wild pond that has existed for a short time, this possibility does not exist. So this does not explain the wild ponds where crucian carp appear in a short period of time, so the seventh possibility is excluded.
The eighth possibility is that bugs turn into fish. Many older generations will think that the insects in the water become fish, the most common saying is that locusts are locusts on land, and when they enter the water, they become fish. As a young person in the new era, you can just listen to a smile and laugh, don't take it seriously!
As for the ninth possibility, saying that the fish brought by aliens is purely brain-opening, I believe that this statement is jokingly said by netizens. If you really dare to believe it, admire you!
Finally, let's talk about the tenth possibility – tornadoes. It's possible and makes sense. Tornadoes are abundant in the United States, and every year there are reports of tornadoes carrying relatives with fish strings. However, China's land is a tornado-poor area, and if you have to use tornadoes to explain all the cases of fish in wild ponds in the country, it doesn't seem to make sense. Tornadoes are not found in every region, but as long as they can form wild ponds, water birds are definitely there.
In summary, Hezai believes that the appearance of crucian carp and other wild fish in the puddles formed by the rain of God is most likely the masterpiece of a stupid bird, and the small probability is that the land animals have sticky fish fertilized eggs, and inadvertently completed the masterpiece of carrying fish. There is a very small probability that the tornado will complete the task of delivering the fish. This also explains why there are fish in some small puddles on the top of the mountain. If small colorful fish are found in a small puddle in the wild, the probability of anything other than medaka is almost zero. As for the 10,000-year-old fish roe, you can listen to it as a joke, don't believe it!
In short, it is impossible for a pond in the wild to grow fish out of thin air, and there must be some creature that brings in the fish or the fertilized eggs of the fish, but you just don't see it with your own eyes. If you don't see it, please don't deify it.
To put it more, as long as this wild puddle can exist for a few more years, as long as there is more than one crucian carp carried by birds, and it happens that there is a male and female, then it is natural for a few fish to become tens of thousands of fish. One day in the future, a group of friends who love wild fishing come to this wild pond to fish wildly, and they will definitely make a lot of gains.
As a result, the rumor of crucian carp growing in wild ponds was once again spread by "goodwill".
When you have the opportunity to see a flock of water birds flying overhead, you can put a wash dish on top of your head, in case there is a stupid bird in the flock, maybe your crucian carp soup today will fall. Ha ha! Just kidding, Bo Jun smiled.
There may be only one gap between you and successful fish farming.
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