The difference between wild ricefield eel and farmed ricefield eel

Monopterus Albus is a benthic fish living in tropical and warm temperate zones, with strong adaptability, and can survive in rivers, lakes, ditches and rice paddies. During the day, it likes to drill holes in humic silt or live in stone crevices with water on the embankment. It comes out to look for food at night. Now most of the rice field eels on the market are farmed ricefield eels. Let's take a look at the difference between wild ricefield eel and farmed ricefield eel.

First: wild ricefield eels live in rivers or ponds. To build a home, you have to dig a deep hole so that it can survive in dry weather, so the head of wild ricefield eel is sharper than that of farmed ricefield eel.

Second: if you touch the tail of a wild ricefield eel with your fingers, its tail will wind around your fingers. Raising Monopterus Albus is not.

Third: the color of wild eel is bluish yellow or orange, and the patterns and spots on both sides of the belly and body are large and deep, while the whole belly of cultivated ricefield eel is yellow or orange, there are no spots on both sides of the belly or the spots are very light, and the pattern on the body is not deep.

Fourth: after the wild eel is split, the blood is crimson or dark red, sticky and abundant. On the other hand, the blood of cultivated ricefield eel is pink, small and as clear as water after splitting.

Fifth: the wild eel is muscular and feels very powerful when it is held in the hand. On the other hand, the cultivated ricefield eel has loose muscles and feels weak.

Sixth: wild eel has compact meat, tough taste, chewy head, and has a unique sweet and fragrance. On the other hand, the meat of cultivated ricefield eel is loose, sour and has a strange smell.

Note: some people think that as long as the color of ricefield eel is very yellow, it is a wild ricefield eel. In fact, it is a big mistake. Nowadays, the color of cultivated ricefield eel is very yellow, and some farmed ricefield eels are raised by buying wild small ricefield eels. So the color can not distinguish between wild and farmed.