Half a lifetime of fish, I walked together.

When I was young, I loved scaly fish. When I was a child, I raised goldfish in tile tanks and peacocks in washbasins. Later, I raised maps, arowana, and so on. Now I am middle-aged. According to the calculation, all kinds of fish have accompanied me through half my life.

Recalling that when I was young, there was a water tank in the courtyard at home, and the elders caught a small carp from the river bay and gave it to me. I was so happy that I begged my parents to put it in the tank. However, in order to keep the stored water from deteriorating, parents are not allowed to feed it, and occasionally throw in one or two pieces of steamed bread crumbs in private. I am very happy to see the fish eat. The fish had little food, but he lived in the tank for a long time. Although he didn't know where to go, he knew that the fish could not starve to death.

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When it comes to primary school, there are people who buy peacock fish at the gate of the summer school. at that time, they still don't know their name, but they are only called tropical fish. I bought a few of them with only a few cents of New year's money, went home and put them in the basin, and raised them excitedly, like the old man next door. I went to the river bay to catch red worms to feed. More than a month later, the fish unexpectedly gave birth to many larvae, and immediately felt full of achievement. when it came to the winter moon, the cold house without heating made the fish raised in the summer gradually die, and I can still remember the sadness at that time.

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At that time, the biggest dream was to have a round glass cylinder. When I worked in the 1990s, I glued a square jar half a meter long to the glass store. At that time, there was a special market for flowers, plants, fish and insects, and with simple filter boxes and heating equipment, they first raised a few maps and bought miscellaneous fish for feeding.

Later, when he got married and raised children and had plenty of money at his disposal, he bought a Jiabao acrylic integrated fish tank and raised a silver dragon. At that time, the Internet was not as popular as it is now, and the limited knowledge of fish farming came from fish merchants, or searched on the website. when they found valuable content, they printed it and ordered it into books, or even bought all kinds of ornamental fish books in bookstores, including knowledge of economic fish culture.

Nowadays, all kinds of professional ornamental fish supplies are available, all kinds of filtration systems are various, and many large aquarium tanks are greatly to meet the needs of aquarium lovers. What is more convenient is that the sharing of fish culture knowledge network makes many new entrants to ornamental fish culture quickly become experts. But at the same time of such high-speed information sharing, video sharing, and experience sharing, while more enthusiasts invest a lot of money, can we think of the ornamental value under the trend of interest and vanity in the hustle and bustle? what else does fish farming bring to us? Does it benefit us anything?

There is a saying in fish culture, that is, fish culture first raises water, which extends from this. over the past many years, my feeling is "fish culture first water, water first heart". This has to be understood from several aspects, one is patience, the second is to understand the heart, and the third is to measure the heart.

patience

The fish that have been raised by individuals prefer arowana and Luohan, not all because of their value, but because they feel that these two kinds of fish can interact with people to the highest degree in the process of breeding, but because Luo Hanshou has many short-term diseases, they do not encounter much. However, the dragon fish, which involves the auspicious factors of the "dragon totem" of the Chinese people, coupled with its huge, colorful scales, winding and beautiful figure, and so on, have greatly attracted me.

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However, raising this fish is a great test of our patience. When the dragons first entered the tank, the test followed one after another. first, they refused to eat for a long time, and if the water quality was not good and the environment was bad, there would be various problems such as lying down and hitting the tank. I recall that at that time, it was like scratching the ear and scratching the cheek, and the blind use of various means was often counterproductive, so it added other diseases and brought more trouble. Now, what we should do is to "stay calm in the face of danger". It is to change the water step by step, provide oxygen, maintain the stability of the water quality and the environment, and only wait for everything to adapt and let nature take its course.

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The second place where arowana tests the patience of its owners is the coloring process. From the beginning, only raise young dragons, enjoy the sense of achievement of this process, can really let myself face a yellow leisurely fish every day, their own eagerness for fish red is often hard to resist, one or two years, in your patience to the last few years, the fish dramatically changed in a few months, and at this time, I understand that my harvest is not only a beautiful red dragon, more important Is to harvest a persistent and ordinary mind that is not eager to show off and does not blindly compare with others.

Understand the heart

Nowadays, there are many kinds of ornamental fish products, and there are dozens or hundreds of drugs only used to mediate the water quality and the state of fish. Raised a fish, only want to provide it with the best, eager to let the fish grow into the best, the most physically fit, in order to show their own cultivation.

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I have blindly pursued the Internet to favor the "air tank", but also used a variety of nutrients for fish, all these, but did not meet their own desired results, due to improper use, occasionally or as a result of some illness. After that, I think of an old saying: when the water is clear, there is no fish. The fish enters the tank, although it is the protagonist in the tank, but in the filtration ecosystem of the tank, it and the anaerobes, aerobic bacteria and so on are the links that keep the system stable. if the pros and cons are both sides, the growth and decline of each other should not be biased, otherwise it will only lead to fish immunity deficiency, nutrition dependence and other symptoms. When it comes to doing things as a human being, we should proceed from the overall situation and consider the situation as a whole, which can avoid omissions.

Measure the center

A preliminary understanding of the basic knowledge of fish farming is often perplexed by some details, such as the amount and interval of changing water, such as the number and duration of light, the cleaning cycle of filter materials, such as PH value of water quality, TDS value, and so on. I feel dizzy and feel at a loss as to what to do. I ask many people, and the answers vary. It was customary to change the water twice a week, 1/4 each time, but because of the high density of fish at that time, the water quality gradually became a problem, so the water was changed frequently.

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Water quality is good, I also gradually or understand a truth, everything must not be rigid, blindly bound by some data. The so-called amount of water exchange should be adjusted in combination with the size of the water body, the number of fish, and the frequency of feeding, while other lights, such as the species of fish, the breeding environment, and the K value of the light, should be combined with the specific K value of the fish, as well as the human behavior, which emphasizes the word "degree". If you don't have a good grasp, if you go too far, you will get the opposite result; but if you grasp it well, you will get twice the result with half the effort.

Decades of companionship with fish, although spent energy and money, but also harvest the state of mind. There is a diligent heart to feed and exchange water day after day, and a tranquil heart to enjoy fish at leisure. The greatest benefit is to get a normal mind. Fish, will always swim around, accompany me to cultivate self-cultivation and mind, and solve more doubts about how to deal with people and things.

Editor: after reading the article carefully, the editor is deeply impressed by the writing style and thoughts of this fish friend.

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