Unexpected ending

2017-5-26

The Feng Shui Table Louis ordered came in May 26, 2017. (Figure 1)

(Figure 1 was the close-up images of Feng Shui Table).

Louis found this fancy thing in a marketing research accidentally. He’s finding the reason that the retail net location in the old city can do excellent business and beat the online shopping. All kinds of shopping malls are developed excessively lead to a high vacancy rate. Most shopping malls on Huaihai Road are closed up. But there’s still a flourishing market covers an area of less than 20 acres in Huangpu district. There’re lots of flower, bird and fish markets, small commodity markets, clothing, shoes and hats markets, vegetable, fruit, seafood and meat markets in it. With the small articles and the restaurants surrounding the street, they make a vulgar but tenacious ecosphere. Although a variety of medium markets around them squealed with the customer loss, they still have unending stream of people.

 

Louis went to the bird and flower market bought some props after he received the Feng Shui Table at first time. He also bought 2 small goldfish that made the Feng Shui Table looked more unique. (Figure 2)

(Figure 2 was the panoramic photo of the Feng Shui Table).

This little Feng Shui Table inspired Louis to keep more goldfish. I summarized some information in this news release, you can subscribe our wechat for more details.

Louis bought Thailand betta in May 27, 2017. (Figure 3)

 

(Figure 3 was various of betta fish in the bird and flower market).

 

Louis bought a 40 cylinder (Figure 4) in May 31, 2017. He used stone and water plants made a landscaping (Figure 4). (But just 3 days later the landscaping has been destroyed by the goldfish. After that Louis realized that the 40 cylinder can keep tropical fish only).

(Figure 4 was the 40 cylinder).

Louis carried a 1.8 meters wide giant fish tank in June 7, 2017. We don’t talk about the difficulty about carried this huge thing. The following picture was putting stones and dead-wood after washing the tank by potassium permanganate. (Figure 5)

(Figure 5 was the 1.8 meters wide tank after put some dragon stones, rocks and dead-wood took from left).

Louis put the goldfish that he kept in the 1.8 meters wide tank before into the 50 cylinder he bought in June 20, 2017. (Figure 6)

(Figure 6 was the bactericidal pump with UV hung over the 50 cylinder).

 

Louis bought a 2.8 meters wide fish cabinet in June 30, 2017. He assembled this cabinet from every screw and board by himself for about one week. (Figure 7)

(Figure 7 was one side of the cabinet, there’re still 85% didn’t complete. Louis only had an inner-hexagon screw to install all kinds of screws and door stoppers. It’s a big challenge to him without instruction to assemble a whole cabinet. Fortunately, through the efforts of about 1 week, and his waist tired, skin abrasion and slept only 2-4 hours a day, the work had finally come to an end. Should remind everybody here a bit, if you are not a carpenter, please do not look down upon installation and buy the end product directly).

 

Louis put water into the 1.8 meters wide giant fish tank in July 2, 2017. He used acrylic plate divided the tank into 8 small spaces, in this way the aggressive fish, the large fish and the small tropical fish can share the same water.

(In the figure 8, the water covered the 3-4 white sand, blue sand, dragon stones, dead-wood, cobblestones slowly. The first step of keep fish is to keep good water).

Louis bought a ceramic cylinder to specifically keep goldfish. (Figure 9).

(Figure 9 was the ceramic cylinder originates from Jingdezhen. After change the water 2 or 3 times, dozens of fish dead, Louis had keep a good water quality before the time of writing. This is the result of investment in putting a 9w filter pump and an UV light. The ceramic cylinder is in the office corner and there’s 4 trash fish and 6 gold fish in it now).

 

Louis put the 40 cylinder and the 50 cylinder together in June 6,2017 and installed a side splitter to avoid the attack between the parrotfish. (The parrotfish always bite each other and result in casualties. Figure 10)

(Figure 10, there were 2 independent spaces in the 40 cylinder and 50 cylinder to save those internecine parrotfish).

 

In July 7th, 2017 Louis began to make an attempt to decorate the grass landscape within the 1.8 meters wide stone cylinder, as shown in figure 11. (The fluorescent system on the original cylinder lid was broken; then Louis equipped it with LED lamp belt, two blue and red LED fluorescent tubes, which could change three colors; he just completely built a "villa" hollow place for the small fish to jump, without hesitation.)

(Figure 11 was the panoramic 1.8 meters wide cylinder. This cylinder has acquired many hydrophytes so far, such as hexagon, fragrant marshweed herb, Moss, Uruguay, etc., which was more beautiful. Louis had 3 nights sleeping on the ground, because he could see the underwater world he created himself when lifting eyes; according to Louis's share for the internal motive power, the reason why he could desperately fight for more than 2 months under severe lack of sleep lied in that he saw the results of his efforts, the fishes which could not alive and that the fish farmers said that could not be kept well, as well as the enigmatic temptation in the professional field that the fish masters deliberately made it look mysterious; Louis proved it by his own efforts that it was not difficult to keep fish, but it must be done with heart and mind.)

 

In July 14th, 2017, the filter system for tap water was built up, (Figure 12), which completely solved the troubles that adding water did not need to regulate the water quality or sprinkling the sodium hyposulfite. On the same day, I purchased 4 Brazil turtles (Figure 11), and thus the path of ecological feeding for the fish, turtles, crystal shrimp was started.

(Figure 12, quartet for tap water filter. Louis gradually woke up to the importance of everyday potable water through the purchase of the filter equipment and the lessons that water culture was prior to fish culture. Not long after, he bought two PHILPS water clarifiers for himself and company to re-filter the water which had already been purified water in family and company so as to ensure that the human injuries caused by water quality decline due to disinfection, aging pipes and bacterial propagation could be minimized.)

 

(Figure 13, four Brazil turtles provisionally placed in the basin for temporarily culturing, which were poly-cultured with the fish. But so far only 2 have survived).

 

As of July 24th, 2017, the stone landscape-grass cylinder eventually came to a conclusion (Figure 14), and the cultured fish types ranged from conventional ornamental fishes such as Bubble Eye Goldfish, cryprinus carpiod, etc. to small tropical fishes such as Red / Blue zebrafish, guppy and angel fish, etc., including medium-sized fishes, such as Gen Gi Khan sharks, Silver Arowana, white dragon carp and mullets, etc., as well as turtles, shrimps, snails and various tool fishes. The total (including the sacrificed) was more than 200. There were no less than 10 fishbowls, such as glass, ceramics, resin, turnover box, etc. All kinds of fish farming equipment, tools, fish food and others were no less than 100 pieces. And the total investment was over more than 40,000. In this period, it also experienced a series of difficulties, such as the painful rainy season (difficult period for fish farming), hot summer, fish disease (skin vitiligo), etc. Sleep was less than 4 hours a day. This was the achievement of persisting for more than 2 months.

(Figure 14, panorama)

In July 31st, 2017. Louis laid out the scene with golden cudgel and the Incantation of the Golden Hoop on the stone gained from the middle of the river before watching the tide in Qian Tang River in Haining, it meant that "Don't wear the trammels, how can I save you? Wearing it, how can it make me love you?" (As shown in Figure 15) The fish-farming road came to an end temporarily. In this period, Louis also became interested in flowers and birds due to purchase of fishes (5 pots of flowers, 20 kinds of seeds (more than 100 cottonseeds) were bought), it was said that he could probably hit the fields of flower and bird in the next stage; after heavy motorcycles and games, he would completely create a small fascinating place at home to pursue the "desired region in heart" that he had talked about but nobody had seen.

 

Journalist: Rurouni Kenshin

Translator: Sara