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# Changelog
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What changed in [Fishies](https://fishies.lol), newest first. Release posts and patch notes, exactly as they were published on [the blog](https://fishies.lol/news).
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## Releases
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### 0.8.3 · A wider tank, the Aquarium Studio and the Keeper OS
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2026-10-07 · [read on fishies.lol](https://fishies.lol/news/0.8.3)
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Enlarge your aquarium, try themes and floors in the Aquarium Studio, and find the Field Guide, Updates and Community in the site header. Everything since 0.8.0 is here.
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#### Your aquarium
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- Enlarge your aquarium at level 25: a wide panoramic tank with room for 30 fish and 60 decorations, for 200,000 coins.
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- The Aquarium Studio replaces the shop's Aquarium page. Try themes, rooms, floors and equipment on your own aquarium in a live preview, then buy everything you like at once. It shows what your aquarium is wearing, slot by slot.
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- New floors for your aquarium: buy one once with coins and swap between the floors you own at any time.
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- Plants and decorations stand on the sand instead of sinking into it.
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- Every aquarium now lives at fishies.lol/@name, and old links forward there automatically.
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- A new aquarium button beside the Map lets you switch aquariums and see the next one at a glance.
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- A shield beside the water readout shows how long your fish stay well while you are away, auto-feeder included.
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- New keepers receive their filter, heater and Conditioning Box as gifts at the moment each one starts to matter.
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- Every fish has a Grade from 0 to 100, and the shop shows each species' Stars and Care level.
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- The level-up screen waits until your sale has finished. A jump of several levels is shown once, and you can page through everything you unlocked with arrows, keys, the wheel or a swipe.
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- A Next goal line suggests what to try next. New gear arrives as a gift with a card, and six quest chains lead the story on to level 100. A quest shows where it sits in its chain.
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- Keepers who finished the tutorial long ago receive the Home Sweet Home achievement.
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- Several of the same item sell from the stash one after another.
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#### Moving around
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- Travelling between aquariums is seamless: no loading screen when you visit someone or go back home.
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- The Map opens at full size straight away, and tapping your home itself swims you home.
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- Pictures appear only once fully loaded, behind a Fishies spinner. Embedded aquariums load in seconds with a progress bar.
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- Panels and the shop open faster, and pages load less language data.
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- News, profiles and the forum no longer fail to load when the site is busy.
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- Panels pop open from where you tapped and slip away when closed. Coins and XP fly to your counters and count up, tabs glide, and buttons squash when pressed.
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- When visiting an aquarium, the map, chat and follow bar line up and no longer cover the tank's equipment.
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#### Keeper OS and the game's menus
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- The top-right button opens the Keeper OS over your aquarium, with every notification in one place and a simpler Settings.
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- Quick buttons for full screen, sound, account and settings. On Android phones the game goes full screen and sideways on your first tap.
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- Account opens straight in the Keeper OS, with a clear way back to your aquarium. The dock shows icons only; labels can be turned on in Settings.
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- Settings and notifications use the game's own buttons and switches. Settings > Sound has a proper track list.
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- Settings > Display lets you choose the graphics engine, WebGPU or WebGL.
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- Links in chat and Community open the Reef Journal, an aquarium or a thread right inside the game.
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- The Reef Journal has its new name everywhere, covers every part of the game in every language, and lists every keyboard shortcut.
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- The Keeper OS guide in the Field Guide covers the quick buttons, dock labels and the graphics engine.
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- Tooltips appear at once in the game's own style. Big coin and XP counts read like 87.6K.
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- The Aquariums and Map buttons now match.
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- The Keeper OS fits phones held sideways, laptops and desktops at 125% and 150% scale, and the aquarium switcher's cards fit inside the menu.
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#### The website
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- Field Guide, Updates and Community in the site header open their pages on the site, for everyone, signed in or not.
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- Log in in the site header opens the sign-in panel where you are, over the whole page. The forum and other pages no longer send you into the game.
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- The sign-in panel says when new aquariums are closed, and hides guest play while they are. A failed sign-in is explained wherever you are.
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- Google sign-in always asks which account to use, so a shared browser never signs in to the last account by itself.
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- Discussions is now Community: clear categories, a thread for every update and patch note, a Markdown editor, author cards and link cards.
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- A post that cannot go yet says why: a title that is too short, or an empty post.
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- The FAQ says Fishies is on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
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- The game's text, catalogue data, soundtrack and an embeddable aquarium are public.
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- Whispers come from keepers you follow back, unless you open them to everyone in Settings.
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- "See what's coming" opens the Fishies roadmap.
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- Icons across the game and site are painted icons now. Thirty-one new ones join the set, gold buttons look the same everywhere, and the video player has a warmer reef look.
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- The header no longer shows two look-alike account buttons when you play as a guest.
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- A guest who visits your aquarium is listed as Guest, not as a link to a page that does not exist.
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#### Graphics and performance
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- WebGL is the default, which fixes flickering shadows. WebGPU stays available in Settings.
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- The game lowers its drawing resolution on its own when a device cannot keep up.
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- Fish out of view cost no drawing time, and the aquarium does less work every frame, so busy tanks run smoother.
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- Aquariums recover from graphics startup failures on supported devices. Open Water pauses safely during a graphics interruption and resumes when drawing is restored.
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- Fullscreen on large, high-resolution screens runs smoothly again. Slow fullscreen aquariums can reduce their drawing load to stay responsive.
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- A window that fails to load no longer takes the whole game down.
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- Aquarium updates reconnect reliably after a temporary service interruption.
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- The Aquarium Studio opens faster after the first time, and long shop lists scroll more smoothly.
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- The loading screen's background is calm open water, without fish swimming behind it.
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- The phone and desktop apps download much smaller, and their first update arrives faster.
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- The desktop app updates itself the next time it starts.
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#### Fixes
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- Placing an egg no longer makes the music stutter or play twice over itself.
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- Chat messages and forum replies appear again right away.
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- The net tells you plainly that a legendary fish is never sold.
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- Fish cards always fit on screen; long details scroll inside the card while its name and buttons stay put.
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- On phones held sideways, the Conditioning Box no longer hides under the water gauge.
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- On phones the shop list scrolls smoothly in one column, and its filters say what they filter.
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- Aquarium link cards always show a picture of the aquarium.
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- In the desktop app, the scrollbar starts below the window bar.
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#### Copy
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- "Noir" is she, in every language.
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### 0.8.0 · Gold and diamond fish, heaters and new back walls
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2026-09-30 · [read on fishies.lol](https://fishies.lol/news/0.8.0)
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Fishies is now on the App Store and draws with a new graphics engine, WebGPU. Fishies 0.8 (Alpha) makes quality something you raise over days, adds colours and generations to breeding, a receipt for every sale, water temperature and heaters, six themes with their own back walls and fish that swim in 3D.
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Fishies 0.8 is about the fish themselves: how well you look after them, what they pass on to their young and the water they live in. **We are still in Alpha**, and every update is shaped by the keepers playing it.
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#### Now on the App Store
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- Get Fishies on the App Store for iPhone and iPad.
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- It is on the Mac App Store too, next to the direct download. The Mac update arrives as soon as Apple approves it.
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- You can still play on Google Play, Windows, Linux and in your browser. One account, so your aquarium follows you on every device. The phone apps stay in landscape.
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#### A new graphics engine: WebGPU
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- Fishies now draws with WebGPU, the newest graphics technology in browsers, wherever your browser or device offers it.
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- Everywhere else it switches to WebGL on its own. The picture is identical on both, so nothing changes for you, except that the game is now built on what comes next.
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#### Quality you raise over days
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- A fish's quality now grows with steady care. Each meal counts for the time since the last one, so gold comes from days of good feeding, not a burst of clicks.
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- Fish you already have keep their tier. New fish start plain and grow into theirs.
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- Conditioning now lives in the Conditioning Box: a small box that hangs on the aquarium glass, free, one in every aquarium. Tap it, pick a fish (the list shows each fish's fee and the tier it will reach) and the fish rests inside for 48 hours, then comes out one quality tier higher. Never past gold, once per fish, for half its plain sale value. The fish card no longer carries a Condition button; it just shows the time left.
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- Gold and diamond fish shimmer in the tank, so you can spot them at a glance.
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#### Breeding, colours and generations
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- A pair lays a clutch of one to three eggs, and they hatch in 12 hours.
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- Two gold parents have a chance of a diamond baby, and diamond parents can go further still.
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- Bred fish come in six colours, from Sand and Kelp to the rare Coral, and the fish card shows which generation a fish belongs to.
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#### A receipt for every sale
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- Tap a fish's sale value to open its receipt: species value, level bonus, quality, colour, age, generation and health, each on its own line, with the total at the bottom.
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#### Water temperature and heaters
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- Every species has a comfortable temperature range. Outside it, a fish grows more slowly and can't reach gold, but it is never harmed.
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- Every aquarium gets a free Glass Heater, set for the fish already living there. The Titanium Heater (level 30) and the Controller Heater (level 50) reach further and hold the water steadier.
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- Filters and heaters now hang on the glass like real gear, and the water line reads plainly: "Clear water for up to 21 fish · 12 in the aquarium".
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- The equipment panel fits short, wide screens without scrolling.
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#### Themes with their own back walls
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- Six themes change the water behind your fish, each with a back wall you can recognise at a glance: Lagoon, Shipwreck, Sunken Ruins, Ice Shelf, Volcanic Vents and Gallery. Clear Water stays the default, Lagoon is free and the rest open up as you play.
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- Rooms around the aquarium are optional. Every aquarium starts with no room, and the Pet Shop Counter, The Study, the Garden Shed and the Penthouse wait in the shop's Aquarium tab, next to the themes.
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#### Rarity, ready for what comes next
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- Items now have a rarity ladder: Common, Fine, Rare, Pristine and Mythic, shown as a coloured tag on a stash tile. The first things you can make or find will be the first to carry one.
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#### Fish that swim in 3D
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- Fish swim toward and away from the glass and move with more purpose. A full aquarium spreads across its whole width, height and depth, and nobody sinks into the sand any more.
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- Mouths are back, now sitting exactly where they belong, and fins meet the body cleanly when a fish swims toward you.
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#### More to see and do
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- Open Water has depth now: a hazy far reef, light shafts, shimmering sand and drifting marine snow, and other keepers' fish swim at different depths.
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- Room chat appears as speech bubbles over the aquarium, chat settings sit behind a gear, and visits are tidier: chat inside the glass, the visitor bar on the floor below.
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- Fish details and equipment are clear cards: bars for growth, food and health, tiles for quality, colour and temperature. Hover or tap the filter, heater or feeder in the tank to open its own card.
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- The Coral Neighbourhood is easier to read: every home shows its keeper's name and a card with Visit and Follow. Friends rows and the Map's Friends page have Follow buttons too, and they work instantly.
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- Swimming is smoother: fish no longer tremble when they brush past each other or on high-refresh screens.
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#### Also new since 0.7.5
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- The shop is now one place for everything you buy or place, your stash included, and a big painted Map in the corner opens the ocean map, from your aquarium, out in Open Water and when you visit someone.
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- Fishies now speaks Thai, our thirteenth language.
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- Auto-feeders can be filled with pellets or brine shrimp, and feeders now unlock at levels 22, 34 and 48.
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- You get a reminder before a filter needs a service or a feeder runs dry.
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- A small dot next to a keeper's name in chat shows they're out swimming in Open Water.
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- The ocean map has been repainted: calmer, clearer and easier to read.
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- The Field Guide has new pages on water temperature, rooms and themes, item rarity and conditioning, and now covers filters, feeders, water quality, the pleco and the Shipwreck.
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- On Android phones with an older system browser, the top bar, tutorial card and loading screen now draw correctly.
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Thank you for playing the Alpha. If something feels off, tell us from the game menu or in Discussions.
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### 0.7.5 · 61 new fish, filters and water quality
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2026-09-25 · [read on fishies.lol](https://fishies.lol/news/0.7.5)
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Fishies 0.7.5 (Alpha) brings 61 new fish up to level 99, redrawn fish art and rewritten descriptions, 58 new decorations and plants, and water to look after, with a free filter for every keeper.
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Fishies 0.7.5 is our biggest content update so far. **We are still in Alpha**, and the aquarium keeps growing with you.
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#### 61 new fish, all the way to level 99
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- A new species unlocks at every level from 39 to 99: tarpon, dolphinfish, cobia, powder blue tangs, a butterflyfish with a tweezer snout and many more.
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- Every fish has been carefully redrawn. Eyes, fins and gills sit exactly where they belong at every angle, babies included, and each new species looks like its real animal.
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- Every Field Guide description has been rewritten, each with one true fact worth remembering.
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#### Water to look after
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- Aquariums now have water quality. The water and its plants clean themselves up to a point; past that, cloudy water slows growth and caps the quality your fish can reach.
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- A filter keeps more fish in clear water. Every keeper gets a Sponge Filter for free, and the Power and Canister Filters unlock as you level up. Service the cartridge now and then.
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- Auto-feeders feed hungry fish while you are away. Refills are free, and feeding by hand is still what earns XP.
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- Meet the Bristlenose Pleco, from level 6: a small armoured catfish that grazes the glass, so algae builds up more slowly while it is grown and fed. One per aquarium.
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#### 58 new decorations and plants
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- Twenty-eight new pieces unlock every few levels all the way to level 100.
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- Thirty more fill out the early levels and round off the lagoon, shipwreck, ruins, ice, volcanic and gallery collections.
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#### More ocean to explore
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- The Explore map is now a painted ocean map.
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- Open Water has a second place: the Shipwreck. Swim there from the map, or straight across from the Kelp Garden.
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- The Coral Neighbourhood shows other keepers' aquariums on their own plots, one click from a visit.
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#### Smaller touches
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- Levelling up has a new screen: a bigger celebration, everything you unlocked at a glance and a single Continue button.
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- Cards in the shop's Aquarium Works tab show your own aquarium, and the tab now holds filters and feeders too.
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- Your stash no longer has a limit, and blocking someone keeps them out of your follows, gifts, visits and Discussions.
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- The press kit at fishies.lol/press has new logos, wallpapers, screenshots and a collage of every fish.
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Thank you for playing the Alpha. If something feels off, tell us from the game menu or in Discussions.
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### 0.7.1 · Made for phones
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2026-09-24 · [read on fishies.lol](https://fishies.lol/news/0.7.1)
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Fishies 0.7.1 (Alpha) lets you start as a guest in the iPhone and Android apps, plays full screen on Android and makes the first run fit a phone held sideways.
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Fishies 0.7.1 is a smaller update about one thing: playing on a phone. **We are still in Alpha**.
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#### Start playing straight away
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- The iPhone and Android apps open straight into your own aquarium as a guest. You can link Google, Apple, X or a phone number later and keep everything.
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- Android now plays full screen, without the status bar and the gesture bar taking part of the tank.
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#### A first run that fits a phone held sideways
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- The tutorial card sits in a corner instead of covering the water, and the fish card no longer hides under it.
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- The shop's buy buttons, the level-up screen and the notices all fit on a short screen.
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- Instructions say tap on a touch screen, in every language.
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- Leveling up during the tutorial waits until you have finished your first steps.
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#### Clearer everywhere
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- The level-up screen shows your new level once, and names a new title only when you earn one.
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- Loading tips read in full, and the newest update has a line of its own.
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- Guests see the experience their sales and achievements really pay.
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- Achievements now pay their coin rewards to signed-in keepers.
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Thank you for playing and for telling us what feels off.
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### 0.7.0 · More aquariums, clearer care
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2026-09-21 · [read on fishies.lol](https://fishies.lol/news/0.7.0)
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Fishies 0.7.0 (Alpha) brings more aquariums, an in-game Field Guide, clearer care and Remedy guidance, positional sound, smoother arranging and twelve languages.
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Fishies 0.7.0 is here. **We are still in Alpha**: the game will keep changing as we learn from how you play.
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#### More room to grow
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- Keep several aquariums and expand their capacity as your collection grows.
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- Open the Field Guide without leaving the game.
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- Moving fish and decorations between the stash, Arrange and the shop is clearer and quicker.
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#### Care you can read
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- Fish bubbles and fullness feedback explain what needs attention.
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- Remedy gives clearer guidance when a fish needs help.
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- Care alerts are easier to notice without crowding the aquarium.
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#### An aquarium you can hear
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- Fish and aquarium sounds now come from where the action happens.
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- Alerts sit more naturally alongside the water, music and the rest of the tank.
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#### Smoother everywhere
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- Fishies now speaks twelve languages, with Italian and Polish joining the aquarium.
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- The game, shop and aquarium interface received a broad reliability and performance pass.
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- On macOS, closing the main window no longer leaves you stranded: reopen it from the Window menu.
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Thank you for playing the Alpha. If something feels wrong, report it from the game menu or in Discussions.
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### 0.6.0 · Quests, a living aquarium and ten languages
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2026-09-18 · [read on fishies.lol](https://fishies.lol/news/0.6.0)
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Fishies 0.6.0 (Alpha): a quest storyline, achievements, fish that breed and need real care, 19 new species, ten languages and apps that keep themselves up to date.
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Fishies 0.6.0 is here. **We are still in Alpha**: things will keep changing, and what you tell us shapes where they go.
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#### Quests and achievements
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- Quests are now one story that starts with your first egg. Each quest in progress is an icon on the left of your aquarium; click it for its story, its steps and its reward.
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- A finished quest pays its coins and XP by itself and joins your history. Fold the rail away whenever you like.
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- 38 achievements to earn, each with its own painted medallion. Track up to three of them beside your quests.
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#### A living aquarium
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- Fish have names, are female or male, and pair up to lay eggs on their own.
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- Health is real now: hunger wears it down, a sick fish shows it, and a fish left hungry too long is lost.
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- Three foods: Flake is free forever, Pellet keeps a fish fed twice as long, and Brine shrimp three times as long while giving back health. The picker shows what a meal really costs.
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- Good care raises a fish's quality, and a better fish sells for more.
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- Fish swim around your decorations, rush their food, and tell you what they need with little bubbles.
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#### 19 new species
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- 36 species now, from the Mandarin and the Lionfish to Lumi and Noir, two legendary fish for keepers who reach level 100.
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- Every fish has one simple name.
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#### Tools that feel good
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- The net scoops a grown fish out with a splash, and Review the catch lists everything before anything is sold.
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- A bubbly sponge for the glass, a little food shaker, and tools that stay in your hand.
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- Press ? for keyboard shortcuts and rebind any key. Pinch to zoom on a phone.
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- Coming back tells you what happened while you were away: hatches, hunger, visitors and new followers.
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#### Together
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- Discussions, our own community board, with a profile for every keeper.
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- Every aquarium has its own room chat, Explore has a Friends tab, and visiting fish swim around your aquarium.
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- Sign in with Google, X, Apple, Discord, Steam or your phone.
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#### Everywhere, in your language
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- Fishies speaks ten languages: English, Turkish, German, French, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese.
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- The desktop app opens a launcher with news, your account and one-click updates, and every desktop app now keeps itself up to date.
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- Notifications on iPhone, Android and desktop.
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- The Field Guide has a new home with categories, search and videos of the real game in your language.
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#### Music
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- Six soundtrack pieces take turns in the jukebox: Home Tank, Visitors, Lights Out, Open Water, Window Shopping and Deep End. The soundtrack is free for anyone to use.
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Thank you for playing the Alpha. Found something odd? Report it from the game menu or in Discussions.
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### 0.5.5 · Straight into the water
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2026-09-13 · [read on fishies.lol](https://fishies.lol/news/0.5.5)
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Play the moment you arrive, glass from top to bottom, gifts and a stash, new music, and Turkish that finally reads like Turkish.
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Fishies 0.5.5 is the biggest update since alpha began. **Here is what changed.**
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#### Play first, sign in later
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- Opening Fishies drops you straight into your own aquarium as a guest. No sign-in panel stands in the way.
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- When you are ready, save your progress by linking Google, X or Apple. Signing out as a guest warns you first, so a tank is never lost by accident.
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- Sign in with Apple now works on the web and in the desktop app.
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- Opened Fishies inside Instagram, TikTok or Facebook? Sign-in now tells you to open it in your browser instead of failing quietly. Guest play works everywhere.
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- Your first egg hatches in seconds, so you meet your fish right away.
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- Choosing your keeper name is what opens chat, visits and Open Water.
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#### A new glass interface
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- The whole game moved into glass: a level ring up top, a tool dock along the bottom of the tank, and a simple menu.
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- Shop, level-up, news and settings open as rooms in the same deep-blue glass, and fit a phone held either way.
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- Coming back shows how long you were away and what happened, card by card.
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- Explore lives in the dock, with keepers who are online right now up front. Long names no longer get cut off.
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- Right-click puts down the tool in your hand without opening a menu underneath.
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- The loading screen is a small reef of its own: fish dive in from above the water as the tank fills.
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- Each new release greets you once with its notes when you come back.
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#### Your account
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- A proper account centre, on its own page and inside the game: your aquarium, sign-in methods, badges, notifications and language.
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- You can permanently delete your account from there.
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- Aquariums without a name show as their keeper's aquarium.
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#### Stash, gifts and the shop
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- A stash: buy now, place later. Fish and decorations both wait there.
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- Gifts wait safely in the other keeper's stash, eggs included, so nothing starts hatching until they place it. A gift sent on a shaky connection arrives once.
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- A cart in the shop: fill it and check out once.
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- Pick the sand your tank sits on.
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#### Together
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- Open Water is open: swim out as one of your own fish, zoom in and out, and find everyone on the map.
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- Visit a friend's aquarium and join it as a fish, and watch its keeper feed and level up live.
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- Chat is always open, with a channel for the tank you are in, whispers from level 10, painted emotes, and a card when you tap someone's name.
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- Aquariums show their followers and stars, and you can star the ones you love.
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- Block and report keepers; reports are reviewed by hand.
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#### Fish, music and looks
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- Fish loosely shoal with their own kind, rush their food, and big schools keep their spacing.
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- Hungry fish show it straight away, and fourteen species got a fresher look.
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- New music: Kelp Lullaby is the main theme, Coral Crossing follows it, and the jukebox lets you pick which tracks take turns.
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- A new mascot, a new tab icon, and a press kit page.
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#### Words and privacy
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- Fishies uses one simple word for each thing: aquarium, food, News. The English is shorter and clearer.
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- The Turkish version has been rewritten to read naturally.
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- No more cookie popup: page counts are kept on our own server, and nothing is tracked about you personally.
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- The home page leads with one clear way in, and news and patch notes live on the blog, in your language when it has been written.
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### 0.5.0 · Waterline, clearer
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2026-09-09 · [read on fishies.lol](https://fishies.lol/news/0.5.0)
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The front door, Field Guide and journeys between them now feel more like one aquarium.
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#### One current from the shore to the reef
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Getting into Fishies used to mean a page snapping to another page. Now it moves like water: a school of fish crosses the screen through bubbles and shifting light, and the next place opens up underneath them. The landing reef keeps swimming the whole time you're deciding where to go.
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#### The Field Guide reads like a guide
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The Field Guide has been tightened around what you actually need while looking after a fish. Species now carry their own small icons, headings finally have room to breathe on a phone screen, and every fish gets a proper reference card · a portrait up top, the four care facts you reach for first, then the rest quietly tucked into one table underneath.
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Its visual history stays part of the guide, but it no longer sends you out to the project archive. A fish's earlier look belongs right there, in its own story.
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#### A smaller, calmer way in on a phone
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The landing menu now lives in one compact water-glass tray instead of spreading across the screen. Its three paths stay together, and language sits right next to the way into the aquarium instead of turning the whole thing into a stack of form fields. The landing scene runs edge to edge again, with no extra tank frame cutting the water in two.
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#### The release story is one story
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This update gathers the landing, the guide and the water-motion work into one chapter worth reading. That's how the journal will keep working: a real moment gets a full entry with a real Fishies scene, and the small repairs quietly ride along with whatever release comes next instead of asking for a page of their own.
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### 0.4.0 · The reef gets its colour back
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2026-09-08 · [read on fishies.lol](https://fishies.lol/news/0.4.0)
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A new reef art pass gives familiar fish quieter eyes, truer fins and more life in the water.
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#### Familiar fish, seen anew
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The reef has spent some quiet time changing its look. Nine familiar fish now carry richer colour, smaller reflective eyes, and fins that finally feel like they belong in the water with them.
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Look for the shy Sand Goby hugging the floor, the sharp little Slate Damsel cutting across the current, or the Emerald Wrasse slipping through the plants · three of the nine faces that got this treatment. The goal is simple: the aquarium should feel more alive even when you're just sitting there watching it.
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#### A guide that remembers
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A fish doesn't lose its past just because it grows into a new look. The [Field Guide](https://fishies.lol/wiki) now keeps every earlier picture right beside the current one, so you can look back whenever a species changes over time.
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#### The next layer of the reef
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This is the first full art pass, not the last. We're working through every fish, every decoration, and every corner of the aquarium in turn · and once that's done, we'll bring the same care to how the reef moves, sounds and feels in your hands.
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### 0.3.0 · A little world, made yours
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2026-09-08 · [read on fishies.lol](https://fishies.lol/news/0.3.0)
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Your aquarium has found its rhythm: a first fish to raise, a name to share, a guide to explore and more reason to come back.
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#### Start with one small life
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Every new aquarium now begins with a single gifted egg. Watch it hatch, learn its little needs, feed it by hand, and make its first few minutes count. Your first fish isn't one of a crowd anymore · it's yours.
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#### Leave your name on the glass
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Give your aquarium a name, pick your `@handle`, and share the address once you're ready. Friends can visit the exact water you're growing, browse the public reef, and stumble on other people's little worlds along the way.
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#### The reef remembers
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The Field Guide has a home of its own now. Read up on each fish, learn how long it takes to grow, and look back at the artwork that came before whenever a species gets a new look.
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#### A kinder way to be away
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Fishies can now remind you about the things that matter while you're gone, if you turn reminders on. They stay quiet while you're playing, and you decide which device gets to hear from your aquarium.
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#### Still growing, together
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Fishies is still Alpha. Everyone who joins during Alpha carries the Alpha keeper seal now; the people who were here before the first version number keep their Pre-alpha seal too.
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### 0.2.0 · Dive in
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2026-09-08 · [read on fishies.lol](https://fishies.lol/news/0.2.0)
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The front door is now a living reef with fish to meet, places to explore and a proper field guide.
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The front page no longer stands beside the aquarium. **It jumps straight into the water.**
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#### Take the little dive
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Slip below the surface, meet a fish, and wake up the preview reef. Drop a pellet, look closer, or pause the water whenever you like · it's a playground for visitors, so nothing you do there touches a keeper's real aquarium.
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#### Meet the whole shoal
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The new [field guide](https://fishies.lol/wiki) introduces every fish and decoration in the game so far. Find the speedy ones, the sleepy-looking ones, the fish that grow fast, and the ornaments still waiting for a spot on somebody's sand.
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#### Real tanks at the front door
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Public aquariums can now show up right on the front page. Pick one, visit a keeper, and see what their corner of the ocean looks like today.
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#### Phone sign-in behaves itself
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You can now correct a code, ask for another one once the timer runs out, or change your phone number without getting stuck. Closing the sign-in drawer also closes whatever attempt was left unfinished.
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There's more below the surface now. Go have a look.
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### 0.1.0 · Welcome to Alpha
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2026-09-07 · [read on fishies.lol](https://fishies.lol/news/0.1.0)
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Fishies has its first version number, and the aquarium is growing up.
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The aquarium has its first version number. **Hello, Fishies 0.1.0.**
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#### The Alpha badge is on
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Alpha means the paint is still wet: fish may pick up surprising new tricks, and some rules will change as the world grows around them. You can always check the current version next to the Fishies logo.
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#### Existing keepers can keep swimming
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If you already have an aquarium, it is exactly where you left it. Feed your fish, clean the glass, decorate the sand, and share your tank the way you always have.
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New aquariums are taking a short break while bigger systems get built underneath. Visitors can still explore the showcase reef and public tanks in the meantime. When the doors open again, the news bell will ring here first.
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#### A journal for every splash
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From this release onward, the moments worth gathering around get a place of their own in the Fishies journal · new places, seasonal surprises, and the small discoveries hiding under rocks.
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Thanks for being here for the first numbered splash.
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### Before the first splash
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2026-09-06 · [read on fishies.lol](https://fishies.lol/news/pre-alpha)
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The little aquarium that grew into Fishies.
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Before Fishies had a version number, it was a tiny aquarium with one big idea: **your fish should remember you, even after you close the tab.**
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#### A tank that keeps living
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Drop an egg into the water. Watch a baby fish hatch. Feed it, keep the glass clean, and come back later to see how much it has grown. Time keeps moving while you are away, so a visit tomorrow always looks a little different from today.
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#### Meet the first shoal
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Twelve fish moved into the reef. Some round and nosy, some quick and shiny, a few that would clearly rather hide behind a rock than say hello. They turn, wiggle their fins, chase down a pellet, and sometimes just stop to stare back at you.
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The Coral Clownfish came first. It became the little face of the aquarium, and it taught the rest of the shoal how to swim.
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#### Your corner of the ocean
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Every keeper gets an aquarium address of their own. Share it with a friend and they can watch your fish grow without moving, feeding or selling a thing. Your tank stays yours.
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There is music, too. _Reef Room_ drifts quietly behind the bubbles, pellets plop into the water, and coins chime softly when they land.
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This was the beginning: one tank, one baby fish, and a lot more hiding below the surface.
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## Patch notes
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### 2026-10-07
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**8 October 2026**
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_New_
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- Right-click a fish to treat it when it is ill, rename it, give it a gift or condition it; right-click empty water to open the shop or Conditioning Box.
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- A bell above your aquarium opens Notifications, and a new gear opens Settings.
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- Account, Help and Keyboard Shortcuts now open as panels over your aquarium.
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- Shop cards show how many coins each fish earns per hour, with filters beside the sort menu on every screen.
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- The shop can sort fish by profit per fish or per hour, growth speed and stars, and shows which way each sort runs.
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- An Alerts slider in Settings controls sounds for hatching eggs and messages.
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_Improved_
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- Volume controls are easier to set: tap the icon to mute or restore sound, use − and + to change it by five, or slide near either end to snap to 0 or 100.
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- Filters keep the glass clear longer: a Sponge Filter lasts a quarter longer, a Power Filter half again as long, and a Canister Filter twice as long.
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- The right-click menu opens beside your pointer, even when the aquarium does not fill the game window.
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- The Studio preview no longer casts a shadow.
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_Fixed_
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- Visitors who never chose a name count in the away card instead of linking to a page that does not exist.
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- Guest visitors appear as Guest, without a link to a page that does not exist.
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- Away visitors show their chosen names again, including names starting with keeper or guest.
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- The Settings row in My Aquarium stays below the aquarium card, and the Followers label fits its tile.
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- Field Guide, Updates and Community in the site header open their pages, even when you are signed in.
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**7 October 2026**
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_Improved_
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- Hover tips now appear straight away, in the game's own style, everywhere.
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- Big coin and XP counts are shortened, so they read like 87.6K.
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- Several of the same item now go down from the stash one after another.
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- The Aquariums and Map buttons now match each other.
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- The sign-in panel now tells you up front when new aquariums are closed.
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- While new aquariums are closed, guest play is hidden in the sign-in panel.
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- If sign-in fails, the reason is explained wherever you are.
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_Fixed_
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- Noir's story now calls her she in every language.
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- Community posts now tell you plainly when a title is too short or a post is empty.
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- Log in at the top of the site now opens the sign-in panel right over the page you are on, instead of sending you into the game.
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- Google sign-in now always asks which account to use, so you can pick the right one.
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### 2026-10-06
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**6 October 2026**
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_New_
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- The Keeper OS now has quick buttons for full screen, sound, account and settings.
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_Improved_
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- When you play in the browser on an Android phone, the game goes full screen and sideways on your first tap.
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_Fixed_
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- Placing an egg no longer makes the music stutter or play twice over itself.
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### 2026-10-03
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**3 October 2026**
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_Fixed_
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- Fullscreen aquariums and Open Water now draw less when they start to lag, so play stays responsive.
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- Loading an aquarium no longer gets in the way after you have already moved on somewhere else.
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- Open Water now pauses safely if the picture glitches out, and carries on once it comes back.
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- Aquarium updates now reconnect reliably after a short break in the connection.
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### 2026-10-02
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**2 October 2026**
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_New_
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- Under Display in Settings, you can now change how the game draws if it stutters on your device.
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- Thirty-one new painted icons join the game.
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_Improved_
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- Your account now opens inside the Keeper OS, with a clear way back to your aquarium.
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- The dock shows icons only, and you can turn the labels on in Settings.
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- The help tips on the fish card now fit on one line.
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- For keepers, the Reef Journal, Updates and Community links at the top of the website now open right inside the game.
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- The game now lowers its drawing detail on its own when a device cannot keep up.
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- Icons across the game and the website are now painted in the game's own style instead of plain line symbols.
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- The Aquarium Studio opens faster after the first time, and long shop lists open more smoothly.
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- The aquarium works less hard, so busy aquariums run smoother.
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- Zoomed in or on a wide aquarium, fish out of view no longer slow the game down.
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- The game now runs more smoothly by default, and you can still pick the other drawing option in Settings.
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_Fixed_
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- In the aquarium switcher, the Enlarge and new aquarium cards now fit inside the menu instead of running off the screen.
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- Fullscreen on big, detailed screens runs smoothly again.
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- If one window fails to load, the rest of the game keeps running.
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- An aquarium now recovers when the game's graphics fail to start on some devices.
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- Shadows no longer flicker in the aquarium.
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- The Keeper OS now fits neatly on laptops and on computer screens set to a larger size.
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### 2026-09-30
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**1 October 2026**
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_New_
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- Keepers at level 25 can enlarge an aquarium for 200,000 coins into a wide panoramic tank with room for 30 fish and 60 decorations.
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- An enlarged tank is two screens wide, so you can pan across it.
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- A new aquarium button beside the Map lets keepers switch aquariums, customise them and see the next one at a glance.
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- The Aquarium Studio now shows what your aquarium is wearing, slot by slot, before you try anything on.
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- Every aquarium now has its own page under its @name, and old links send visitors there automatically.
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- Panels pop open from where you tapped and slip away when closed.
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- Coins and XP fly to your counters and count up.
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- Tabs glide, and buttons squash when you press them.
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- Every fish species in the shop shows Stars and a Care level.
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- Every fish now has a Grade from 0 to 100.
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- The top-right button now opens the Keeper OS over your aquarium, with every notification in one place and a simpler Settings.
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- Discussions is now called Community, with eight clear categories.
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- Every update and patch note gets its own thread in Community.
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- Community posts have a proper editor, author cards and beautiful cards for every link.
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- Links in chat and Community open right inside the game, to the Reef Journal, an aquarium or a thread.
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- Whispers now come only from keepers you follow back, unless you open them to everyone from level 10 in Settings.
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- A Next goal line suggests what to try next.
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- New gear arrives as a gift with its own card.
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- Six quest chains lead the story on to level 100.
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- New keepers now receive their filter, heater and Conditioning Box as gifts when each one starts to matter.
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- A quest now shows where it sits in its chain and the next steps ahead.
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- The new goals, gifts and quests are written in all thirteen languages.
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- The Reef Journal now lists every keyboard shortcut.
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- The Reef Journal now covers every part of the game in every language.
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- A new shield beside the water readout shows how long your fish stay well while you're away, auto-feeder included.
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_Improved_
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- Aquarium pictures in the shop now appear right away.
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- Theme cards show each theme's own back wall.
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- Pictures across Fishies now appear only once fully loaded, behind a new Fishies spinner.
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- Embedded aquariums load in seconds with a Fishies progress bar.
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- Travelling between aquariums is now seamless, with no loading screen when you visit someone or go back home.
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- Panels and the shop open faster.
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- The aquarium stays smoother when your device is busy.
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- A full tank runs more smoothly.
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- Pages now open faster, because each one loads only its own language.
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- The shop is easier to read on phones.
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- The Stars and Care filters use the game's own menus.
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- Community buttons have icons that match what they do.
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- Settings and notifications use the game's own buttons and switches.
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- Gold buttons look the same everywhere, and the video player has a warmer look.
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- The guide is called the Reef Journal everywhere.
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- The loading screen shows calm open water, with no fish swimming behind it.
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- Sound settings now have a proper list of tracks.
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- The press kit's fact sheet now counts all thirteen languages.
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_Fixed_
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- Aquarium Studio cards now show each theme and floor as it really looks from the first moment.
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- When visiting an aquarium, the map, chat and follow bar line up neatly and no longer cover the tank's equipment.
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- Keepers who finished the tutorial long ago now get the Home Sweet Home achievement.
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- The My aquariums button now opens the aquarium switcher.
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- Keeper OS tiles stay level even when a label takes two lines.
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- On phones, the Studio tray's checkout wraps neatly and its total fits.
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- The Map opens at full size straight away and fills in smoothly, instead of jumping while keepers load.
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- Plants and decorations now stand on the sand instead of sinking into it.
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- Fish cards always fit on screen, and long details scroll inside the card.
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- On phones held sideways, the Conditioning Box no longer hides under the water gauge, so tapping it opens its card.
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- The Keeper OS fits on phones held sideways.
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- Aquarium link cards always show a picture of the aquarium.
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- Chat messages and forum replies appear again right away.
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- News, profiles and the forum no longer fail to load when the site is busy.
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- The site's FAQ now says Fishies is on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
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- The See what's coming button now opens the Fishies roadmap.
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- The Keeper OS greets guests as keepers, not by a placeholder name.
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- On phones, the shop list scrolls smoothly in one column, and its filters say what they filter.
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**30 September 2026**
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_New_
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- The shop's Aquarium page is now the Aquarium Studio: try themes, rooms, floors and equipment on your own aquarium in a live preview, then buy everything you like at once.
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- Eight new floors for your aquarium: White Sand, Golden Sand, Fine Gravel, Crushed Coral, Rainbow Gravel, Mossy Soil, Lapis Lazuli and Pearl Pebbles.
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- Each floor is bought once with coins, and you can swap between the floors you own any time.
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- The Field Guide has a new article about the Aquarium Studio, in 13 languages.
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_Improved_
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- The Fishies apps are a much smaller download, and their first update arrives faster.
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- The desktop app now updates itself to the newest version the next time it starts.
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- My Aquarium has been rebuilt, with your aquarium's status, setup and visitor settings in one place.
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- When you gain several levels at once, the unlocks are grouped by level on the level-up screen.
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- The Studio's layout now works on phones held sideways and on narrow screens.
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- On a phone, the Studio's compare button is now just a small icon.
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- Slot names in the Studio's side rail now fit on two lines.
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_Fixed_
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- The net now tells you plainly that a legendary fish is never sold.
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- On the Map, tapping your home itself swims you home, not just its name tag.
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- The level-up screen now waits until your sale is finished, and a jump of several levels shows up only once.
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- On the level-up screen, every unlock can now be reached with arrows, keys, the mouse wheel or a swipe.
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- A floor among the level-up unlocks now fits its card properly.
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- On a phone held sideways, a locked floor card now shows its level in full.
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- The Conditioning Box card now shows its whole text instead of cutting it short.
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- In the Studio tray, lock reasons and prices are never cut short.
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- The site's header no longer shows two look-alike account buttons when you play as a guest.
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- In the desktop app, the scrollbar now starts below the window bar instead of running up beside the close button.
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### 2026-09-29
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**29 September 2026**
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_New_
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- Every aquarium now has a free Conditioning Box that replaces the Condition button: pick a fish, and 48 hours later it comes out one quality level higher.
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- The Fishies 0.8 trailer now plays right on its blog post, in a video player made just for Fishies.
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_Fixed_
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- Signing in with Apple in the Mac app now always opens its window in front of the game, even in full screen.
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### 2026-09-27
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**28 September 2026**
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- Tap any keeper's fish or name, including your own, to open their profile card.
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- Chat messages in an aquarium now pop up as speech bubbles over the tank.
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- Fish now cast shadows in Open Water.
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- You can follow or unfollow keepers straight from their homes and the Friends page.
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- Moving the mouse over the filter, heater or feeder in the tank now shows a card for it.
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- Fishies is now on the Mac App Store, and the website points Mac players there first.
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- The website and the app's update screens now show a link to Fishies on the App Store.
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_Improved_
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- The iPhone, iPad and Android apps now always open in landscape.
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- Open Water now has depth, with a hazy reef far away, light beams, wavy light on the sand and tiny specks drifting in the water.
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- The Coral Neighbourhood is easier to read, and every home shows its keeper's name and status.
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- A bigger card opens beside a home in the Coral Neighbourhood.
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- The Map is now the one place to find other aquariums to visit, through the Coral Neighbourhood.
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- Chat settings now live behind a gear button.
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- The bar at the bottom of a visited aquarium is tidier.
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- Fish details and the water gauge now show clear bars and neat cards for each item.
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- Visiting other aquariums works again in the desktop and mobile apps.
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- Fish swim smoothly without trembling, even when they brush past each other.
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- On Android phones held sideways, the aquarium now reaches the camera edge instead of stopping short.
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- On Android phones, the top bar, the first-tank guide and the loading screen no longer pile into one corner.
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- Saving your guest aquarium to an Apple ID that already has one now asks Apple only once, then lets you pick which aquarium to keep.
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**27 September 2026**
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- Items you make or find now have a rarity, from common to mythic, shown as a coloured tag on their stash tile.
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- The rarest items are now called Efsanevi in Turkish.
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- Aquariums now have a water temperature and heaters.
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- Every fish has a comfortable temperature range.
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- A thermostat lets you keep reef, lagoon and cool-water fish happy.
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- Bred fish can now come in six colours.
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- You can raise gold and diamond fish over several days.
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- Tap a fish's sale value to see a clear breakdown of everything that makes up its price.
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- Your aquarium can now stand in a room of your choice.
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- Your aquarium can fill with themed water, from a sunlit lagoon to volcanic vents.
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- Each of the six water themes has its own back wall, from sunken temple ruins to glowing volcanic vents.
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- A big Map in the corner opens the ocean map, so you can swim to another place or home.
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- The Map also stands in the corner out in Open Water and when you visit someone's aquarium.
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- The download section now links to one page listing every app installer.
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_Improved_
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- Fish quality grows with steady care over time.
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- Filters and heaters hang on the aquarium glass like real gear, with heaters clipped just above the sand.
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- Heaters are now chunkier.
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- The water line is clearer to see.
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- The shop is now one place for everything you buy or place, including your stash.
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- The equipment panel now fits short screens.
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### 2026-09-25
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**26 September 2026**
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_New_
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- 61 new fish species unlock between levels 39 and 99, completing the set up to level 100.
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- The new Bristlenose Pleco grazes the glass and slows algae while it is well fed.
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- Aquariums now have water quality, with filters to keep it clear and auto-feeders to keep fish fed while you are away.
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- Every keeper gets a free Sponge Filter.
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- Auto-feeders unlock at levels 22, 34 and 48, and can be filled with pellets or brine shrimp.
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- Thirty more decorations and plants fill out the early aquarium and finish six themed sets.
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- Fishies is now available in Thai.
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- A small dot next to a keeper's name in chat shows they are out swimming in Open Water.
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- Your aquarium reminds you before a filter needs a service or an auto-feeder runs out of food.
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- The press kit has new logos, screenshots, wallpapers, covers and a collage of every fish to download.
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- The wiki now explains filters, feeders, water quality, the pleco and the Shipwreck.
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_Improved_
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- Fish mouths and gills open and breathe exactly where they are drawn, and heads keep their painted shape.
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- Fish art is cleaner and more varied, and the newest fish look like their real animals.
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- Fish faces are cleaner, with smooth, round snouts.
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- Fish swim more naturally and glide around each other.
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- Fish now swim in 3D, toward and away from the glass, and move with more purpose.
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- Auto-feeders hold twice as many meals.
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- The ocean map has been repainted in a glossy style, and it is calmer with far less clutter.
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- The press kit pictures can now be downloaded extra large.
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- The Thai game and guide now cover auto-feeder food, water quality, filters and extra aquariums.
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- Every fish has a new, more accurate description that makes it stand out from the others.
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- For Turkish players, the feeder reminder reads more naturally.
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- Baby fish keep their gills and mouths clear of their big eyes.
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- Fins now stay attached to the body at every angle, even on baby fish.
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- Fins no longer show a thin line of water where they meet the body when a fish swims toward you.
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- Lumi's painted smile is back.
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- Fish have their mouths back, sitting exactly where they belong.
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- Buying filters and feeders works again.
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- The Aquarium Works shop lays out neatly again, with the equipment cards and aquarium previews fixed.
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- A full aquarium now spreads out, so fish use the whole tank instead of crowding into one spot.
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- Fish no longer sink into the sand.
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- For Turkish players, the Bristlenose Pleco's name now reads correctly.
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### 2026-09-24
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**25 September 2026**
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- A second Open Water place, the Shipwreck, opens: swim there from the ocean map or straight from the Kelp Garden.
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- Twenty-eight new decorations and plants now unlock every few levels, all the way up to level 100.
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- The Explore map is now a painted ocean map instead of a drawn chart.
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- The Coral Neighbourhood's homes now stand on their own plots.
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- The conch looks more like a real shell, and brain corals look more like grooved coral.
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- The empty plots in the Coral Neighbourhood look more inviting to a new keeper.
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- The desktop app's start screen now shows your own aquarium swimming behind it.
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- The shop, aquarium, Explore, start screen and sign-in windows now have even spacing, with no cramped or lopsided edges.
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- Aquarium Works cards now show your own aquarium instead of a placeholder picture.
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- Levelling up now shows a bigger celebration, with everything you unlocked at a glance and one Continue button.
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- The Turkish text in the game is clearer and reads more naturally.
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_Fixed_
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- The desktop app's save-your-progress prompts now correctly point to Apple sign-in or your browser instead of Google and X.
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- On iPhone and Mac, saving your guest progress to an Apple ID you already use now asks which aquarium to keep, instead of doing nothing.
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- Saving your guest aquarium to an Apple ID that already has one now asks you to approve Apple only once.
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- Second Aquarium and One More Won't Hurt now unlock properly, with rewards, on every platform.
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- The Aquarium Works page no longer has an empty hole or gaps between its cards, and its savings bar spans the full width.
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### 2026-09-23
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**24 September 2026**
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- New players on iPhone and Android can start playing right away as a guest.
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- Players can play as a guest in the Mac app.
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- You can click the Open Water map to travel straight to a place.
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- A new reef neighbourhood shows other keepers' aquariums you can visit in one click.
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- The shop has a new Aquarium tab for your second and third aquariums and new floors.
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- The Android app now plays full screen.
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- On phones and tablets, instructions now say tap instead of click.
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- The loading screen shows the newest update on its own line.
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- A fish's card shows how much its quality adds to its sale price.
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- The tutorial takes you straight to the fish it recommends.
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- The phone and desktop apps have a much smaller first download, so a new install gets into the game far sooner.
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- Your stash no longer fills up.
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- Players can sign in with Apple inside the Mac app itself.
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- Fish cards now show what they really sell for at your level.
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- The XP for something you buy in the shop is now given when you place it in your aquarium.
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- Fish now look sharper, with crisp outlines, eyes and fins.
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- The whole interface is smaller and less crowded on computers and phones, leaving more room for your aquarium.
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- Feeding now tells you when you cannot afford Pellet or Brine shrimp, and when a fish ate flake instead.
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_Fixed_
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- The level-up screen shows your new level once, not six times.
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- The level-up screen waits for the first-run card to be finished.
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- Signed-in keepers now get the coins that achievements pay.
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- The loading screen's tips now read in full on phones.
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- On phones held sideways, the tutorial, menu, shop, level-up screen and placement guide now fit, and nothing covers your tank.
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- Blocking someone now keeps them away from your follows, gifts, visits and Discussions.
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- Gifts keep the name of the keeper who gave them.
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- The start screen's aquarium preview shows your whole aquarium again instead of a small corner of it.
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- On some older Android phones, the shop's title, tabs and search show again.
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- If the app cannot get an update when it starts, you go straight into your aquarium with a note explaining why.
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### 2026-09-22
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**23 September 2026**
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- Fishies now opens directly, with one clear loading screen on the way into your aquarium.
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- Fishies opens with less to download, so the reef appears sooner.
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- The home page appears sooner while the latest news loads.
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- The home page looks sharper from the very first moment, and waits until its sandy floor is fully drawn.
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- Fish details are easier to read.
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_Fixed_
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- Fish care and selling now stay separate.
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- Tapping an active tool again lets you put it away.
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- Aquarium sound stays quiet when you leave the window.
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- Fullscreen play now responds directly to your tap on supported mobile browsers.
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- Resizing the aquarium is smoother and more reliable.
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- The chat no longer covers the Feed button, on laptops or on phones.
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- The first-aquarium tutorial no longer offers to sell your first fish before you have fed it.
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- The tutorial card no longer covers the fish you are looking at.
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- New players now finish the first-aquarium tutorial with a clear next step into the shop, instead of an empty tank.
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### 2026-09-21
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**22 September 2026**
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_Improved_
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- Game updates now only download the artwork and sounds that changed, not all of them again.
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- Sound effects and interface sounds now start at a gentler volume, and any volume you picked stays yours.
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_Fixed_
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- The in-game help and the Field Guide now name each fish the same way the shop does, in every language.
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### 2026-09-20
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**21 September 2026**
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_New_
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- Fishies 0.7.0 is out for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android, with more aquariums, the in-game Field Guide, clearer care and smoother play in twelve languages.
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- Four new fish have drifted into the reef at levels 35 to 38, Dartfish and Tilefish among them.
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- Tank sounds now come from where each splash, bite and tool action happens.
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- Losing a fish now plays its own sad tone, both when the away summary reports it and when you collect it with the net.
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_Improved_
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- Caring for fish and making sales now respond faster, and gifts and chats are better protected.
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- Aquarium rooms reconnect more reliably when the game is updated.
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- The aquarium and Open Water wait behind the turn-your-phone screen until you turn your phone sideways, and keep your room ready.
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- Open Water turns stay smooth even when a little movement gets lost.
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- Game updates now reuse unchanged art and sounds instead of downloading everything again.
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- Sounds are a little quieter, and the cash register chime on sales is softer.
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_Fixed_
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- Public aquariums now appear straight away and reliably on the front page.
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- Switching aquariums, buying and fish transfers now show in your chosen language.
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- Newsletter confirmation emails now arrive reliably, even when email is slow.
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- Aquarium visits catch up safely after a dropped connection, and signed-in visits keep their account protections.
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- Home visits now keep the newest tab in control, so an old tab no longer ends the visit.
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- Open Water now recovers cleanly when your connection is replaced or runs slow.
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- Open Water chat retries no longer show a false 'please wait' error.
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- Reef and room chat now stay live from sign-in onward, and recover messages reliably.
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- Chat messages now retry instead of disappearing when a connection stalls.
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- Blocked keepers stay blocked in Reef chat, even during a short outage.
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- News, Discussions, patch notes, the home page and keeper profiles no longer disappear during brief service interruptions.
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- Keeper profile links stay available even when the service sends back broken information.
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- Shared aquarium cards and previews stay available, and retry cleanly instead of showing an empty tank.
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- Public pages now recover quickly when something gets stuck.
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- Explore searches show the right pages for your search, and recover when they get stuck.
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- The username check now keeps up with the name you are typing.
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- Each language's news feed now shows Fishies news in that language.
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- Achievements you already earned now sync reliably when you connect a platform account.
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- Ill fish now show up consistently in reminders, return summaries and aquarium alerts.
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- Algae on the glass now stays in step with when the tank can really be cleaned.
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- Dirty glass stays ready to clean even when fish or decorations change.
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- Care alerts now open the exact aquarium that needs attention.
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- Aquarium sounds, including bubbles and the filter hum, now start fully on first load.
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- Fish names read naturally again, and every fish has its full name in all twelve languages.
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- The Field Guide no longer crashes on its pages about fish, decorations and how the game works.
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- Slow connections now keep the game downloading, and the loading tank shows live progress.
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- On a Mac, Fishies can be reopened from the Window menu or Dock after its window is closed.
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- Profile cards stay accurate after the game is updated, and long chat sessions stay stable.
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### 2026-09-19
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**20 September 2026**
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_New_
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- Refusals and faults now make a sound.
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- Coins now ring when you sell something.
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- The interface has its own volume setting.
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- The Field Guide now opens as a book inside the game, with full articles and pages on the fish you have found.
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- The Field Guide opens with the 9 key.
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- A sick fish now asks for its Remedy with a bubble above its head.
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- Keepers past level 25 can buy a second and third aquarium in the shop.
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- You can take a decoration or plant out of the tank and back into your stash, without selling it.
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- Getting hungry, getting sick, passing away and a visitor arriving each have their own sound.
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- Fish now say out loud when they get hungry or fall ill, even when you are looking elsewhere.
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- The tank has a quiet water bed sound of its own.
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- You hear a sound when someone visits your reef.
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- Sounds in the tank now come from where they happen.
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- Alerts turn the music down a little, so you can hear them.
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- Feeding, bites and splashes sound richer, cleaner and much louder, each with its own sound.
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- The aquarium now fits wide screens too.
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- The Guide button in the toolbar has a short name and a painted icon.
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- Sound and Fullscreen are switches in the options menu now.
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- The jukebox is listed in the options menu next to News and Settings.
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- The feed row keeps Remedy apart from the foods, shows its price in coins, and greys it out for a fish that is already well.
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- The stash shows everything you own as a grid of tiles, with big pictures.
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- Tap a fish's bubble and the game picks up the food, medicine, sponge or net it wants.
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- A fish's fullness now drops smoothly to empty, and it is shown apart from how healthy the fish is.
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- The illness ring counts down as time runs out.
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- In a crowded tank, hunger bubbles take turns, so a hungry fish stands out.
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- The tool names under the tank now use the game's own font.
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- Lumi and Noir's close-up sounds now blend in with the rest of the aquarium's sounds.
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- The second aquarium offer only appears once you can buy it.
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- Arrange has its own icon in the dock, no longer sharing Decorate's.
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- In the shop, adding to your basket and opening your basket have different icons now.
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- Icon buttons across the game are just the icon now, with no box around them.
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- Icon buttons are drawn at the full size of the space they take up.
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_Fixed_
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- You can hear the aquarium properly at last.
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- Feeding, eating and splashing no longer crackle or ring on.
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- Feeding no longer covers up its own sounds.
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- A dirty tank makes fish ill when it should, not later.
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- A fish close to death now warns you, whatever the cause.
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- In a tank with a legendary fish, the reminder to clean the glass no longer goes missing.
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- A fish weakened by a dirty tank now asks for medicine instead of food.
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- The Fish Market and the aquarium panel show what you came for again.
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- On very short screens, the shop still shows what each fish sells for.
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### 2026-09-18
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**19 September 2026**
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_New_
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- The wiki's how-to clips and the home page's gameplay reel now play in Italian and Polish too.
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- Remedy is now in the food menu: drop a capsule and any fish below full health swims over, eats it and gains 20% health.
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- Aquariums now start with room for 8 fish and grow by one fish every level from level 4 to level 24.
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- The wiki's Quality page now explains the Remedy the way it works in the game.
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- The start screen's aquarium preview now shows your whole aquarium in miniature.
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- The wiki's Languages page now lists all twelve languages, Italian and Polish included.
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- While placing eggs or decorations, the hint shows once instead of twice on top of each other.
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- The Windows installer now installs the right version for your PC, so Fishies starts again on regular and 32-bit Windows.
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- The language list on the start screen and in the game now opens fully inside the window.
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- With a Remedy picked, the hint under the food choices now says that only fish below full health eat it.
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**18 September 2026**
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_New_
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- Fishies 0.6.0 is out on Windows, Mac, Linux and Android.
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- Quests now follow a storyline, shown on a tidy rail of icons.
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- You can track your achievements right beside your quests.
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- Every quest now has its own painted medallion, on the rail and in the quest window.
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- Fish can now breed, and they need real care to stay healthy.
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- Nineteen new species arrive in the game.
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- Sick fish can now be treated with a Remedy.
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- When a fish gets hungry, heals, grows or changes quality, a small arrow bubble over it shows what changed.
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- Drag decorations into place instantly with the new Arrange mode, which keeps fish out of the way while you redecorate.
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- Care reminders on Discord and Telegram now have buttons to mute them for 1, 8 or 24 hours.
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- The Field Guide has a new About the game section, with platforms, system requirements, languages, accounts and tips for when something goes wrong.
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- Fishies now speaks Italian and Polish too.
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- Eight new decorations and plants arrive, from level 10 to 17.
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- A game tab in the background tells you when your fish need you.
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- The Field Guide shows the real game in your language.
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- Fish now swim in 3D, passing in front of and behind each other instead of bumping.
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- Fish now visibly turn toward you or away as they swim closer or further.
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- Saving shows as a small spinner.
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- Every decoration and plant has been redrawn.
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- Plants and decorations now sit rooted in a real sandy floor, with light rippling across it.
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- Plant and ornament bases blend seamlessly into the sand, with no colour showing through at the bottom.
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- News now opens as a roomy in-game reader, with a list of updates and a full-size article you can page through.
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- The newest release now sits at the top of the news page, with its notes easy to read right there.
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- The account card is clearer.
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- Language is now a single flag in the top right corner.
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- Notifications now stay quiet while you are playing.
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- Notification dismiss buttons are easier to tap.
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- Muting reminders now tells you how long they stay quiet.
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- The food picker shows clear prices.
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- The keyboard hints on screen are now off by default.
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- Game clips load faster.
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- A line on the home page in Turkish reads more naturally.
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- The home page now offers the right download for your device.
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- The download tiles line up neatly, and the newsletter sign-up spans the whole page.
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- The home page now ends on the journal, with the newsletter sign-up right under the latest updates.
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- On the home page, the dark shade behind the headline now fades as you scroll, so the water stays clear blue.
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- The text on the home page is easier to read over the aquarium's new sandy floor.
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- The sound switch is now called Sound, because it turns off the music as well as the effects.
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- The chat has larger, clearer buttons.
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- Italian and Polish now appear among the other European languages in the language menu, not at the bottom.
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- The game's icons are now painted in the same glossy style as the tool dock, from the fish and egg to the shop basket and the shop's Fish and Plants tabs.
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- The Fishies disc edition's case and disc art have been redrawn with bigger, clearer game moments.
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- The Windows setup asks for your language first and opens Fishies as soon as the install finishes.
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- If chat asks you to choose a username, a button now takes you straight there.
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- Signing in from a guest aquarium now asks you to pick your name.
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- In the shop, an item you cannot afford now clearly shows its price and how much more you need.
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- Feeding a fish you selected drops the food just for that fish.
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- The in-game notifications window now fits on screen in two columns, with no scrolling.
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- Linking another sign-in method now shows its choice in front of the account window instead of hiding behind it.
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- In Open Water, the W, A, S and D keys now swim without opening menus.
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- The lantern light in Open Water no longer looks like a joystick.
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- The mouse's back and forward buttons no longer take you out of the game.
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- Browser shortcuts no longer reload or change pages in the desktop app.
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- The language menu in the account window looks right again.
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- The Room, Reef and Whisper switches now appear only while the chat is open.
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- The chat shows your message the instant you send it.
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- The chat stays under the shop and every other window.
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- Shop cards fit a phone screen properly, and the Buy labels are no longer cut off.
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- Decorations now land exactly where you tap, and can be planted closer together.
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- Fish turn toward their food instead of swimming backward to reach it.
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- Buried plant roots sit cleanly in the sand, with no purple smudge.
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- Plants and ornaments placed at the very front now stay on the sand instead of covering the gravel seen through the glass.
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- Fish no longer lose their eyes when they swim toward the glass.
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- The fish menu no longer covers its own options or the top bar.
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- Submenus now sit beside their menu with a gap, not over its edge.
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- The fish card now shows the right time after paid food, plus real health and quality.
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- Eggs picked from the right-click menu now go straight into your hand.
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- The gift window only offers what you have unlocked.
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- Sending a gift from someone's aquarium no longer gets refused as if you had no coins.
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- Picking a username no longer shows "No aquarium here" until you reload.
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- Finishing a quest now pays its coins to signed-in keepers.
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- The coins and XP show the moment a quest is done.
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- Small notices no longer cover an open window; only warnings still show over it.
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- Notifications now open the game correctly for players using Italian or Polish.
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- Putting the game disc in now starts the Fishies setup on its own.
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### 2026-09-16
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**16 September 2026**
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_New_
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- Fish now pair up and lay eggs on their own.
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- Each fish's card shows when it can breed and how many clutches of eggs it has had.
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- A fish's card now shows where it came from: bought as an egg, a gift and who sent it, your first fish, or a legendary fish.
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- Fishies now speaks ten languages: German, French, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese join English and Turkish, each with its flag in the language menu.
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- You can now download Fishies for Windows, macOS, Linux and Android straight from the home page.
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- You can now see exactly who visited your aquarium and who is in the room with you.
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- You can pin the chat so its messages stop fading away.
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- You can connect Discord from your account settings.
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- You can report a bug from the game menu, or from the new Report a bug card on the contact page.
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- Guests can now sign in to an account they already have.
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- Links to Fishies aquariums and the game now open straight in the Android app when it is installed, including the app from Google Play.
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- The press kit now links the game's soundtrack, which anyone can use for free.
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- The Fishies setup for Windows now also comes for 32-bit and ARM computers.
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_Improved_
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- Opening the game no longer restarts the loading screen halfway through, so the water and the fish flow straight into your aquarium.
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- The game opens smoother and about a second sooner, with far less stutter while the loading screen fills.
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- The account centre inside the game now scrolls, matches the game's look, and shows any problem with linking an account in a game popup.
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- On Android the game now fills the whole screen without hiding anything under the status bar, and the app itself is lighter.
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- The music panel is simpler.
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- The jukebox now marks the song that is playing with a steady play symbol.
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- When the app needs updating, it now takes you straight to its page on Google Play or the App Store.
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- The game now calls each thing by one name everywhere: Turkish always says Açık Deniz, and the game talks about your aquarium instead of your tank.
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- Fishies messages in Telegram and Discord are now tidy cards with buttons instead of walls of text, and they speak your language.
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- The home page clips now show caring for your fish, Open Water chat, a real sale, an egg hatching, algae being scrubbed away and hungry fish eating.
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- The home page clips zoom in so chat and actions are easy to read, and they load faster.
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- The first screen of the home page now fits on every device.
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- The press kit has ten fresh pictures of the game, including phone and Open Water shots.
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- The press kit reads more clearly and lists every platform Fishies runs on.
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- The download on the Fishies itch.io page is now the easy-to-use file.
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_Fixed_
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- Store pictures of the game now sit neatly inside their phone and tablet frames, and the frame corners are no longer cut off.
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- The shop fills the window with two rows of cards again.
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- Switches in Settings now show whether they are really on or off.
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- Visits and follows from guests no longer send you a notification.
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- The fullscreen button in the desktop app now works on the first press.
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- Muting and unmuting the music now picks the song back up where it left off.
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- The Windows setup now shows the whole install folder instead of cutting it off.
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- The macOS installer window is readable again, with its labels sitting on a sand bed.
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- Forum search works again.
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- New keepers who buy a fish before placing their free starter egg now keep that egg.
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### 2026-09-15
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**15 September 2026**
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_New_
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- You can now sign in with Discord, and connect it from Connections in your Account.
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- Chat in Reef and Open Water is checked before other keepers can see it.
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- When a sign-in already belongs to another aquarium, the phone and tablet app shows both aquariums side by side so you can choose which one to keep.
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- Keepers now get care messages in the game for hungry fish, hatching eggs, dirty glass, lost fish and visitors, even while they are out in Open Water.
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- You now get a message when another keeper starts following you.
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- Next to your coins, the game now shows hungry fish, dirty glass, eggs, grown fish and how many keepers are visiting.
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- Hovering over XP, coins, tank count, growth or food now shows a short explanation.
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- Pressing L now opens the level room, just like tapping the level ring, and hovering over the ring shows the L key.
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- On a phone, holding your finger still on Inspect now opens the same fish, decoration and water menu as a right-click on a computer.
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- Right-clicking a fish can now sell every grown-up fish of that kind at once, after you confirm the list.
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- If care reminders are off, you now get a weekly reminder in the game to turn them on.
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_Improved_
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- Hungry fish stop growing until you feed them, and a fish left hungry for a long time now shows as unwell.
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- Fish now swim around the decorations you place instead of ignoring them.
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- When you come back to your aquarium, the recap of your time away now also covers hatched eggs, lost fish, hungry fish, dirty glass and keepers who visited or followed you.
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- Dropdown menus across the website and game now use Fishies' own styled menu instead of the plain list that comes with your device.
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- Discussions now looks like the rest of Fishies, with starter help topics and links to the Field Guide.
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_Fixed_
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- The picture at the top of the Windows installer and uninstaller is sharp again.
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- The Android and iPhone apps no longer show keyboard shortcut labels or sign-in options that cannot open there.
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- The shop's Buy buttons are no longer cut off when a phone is held sideways.
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- Explore's aquarium cards no longer overlap when a phone is held sideways.
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- The next-level list keeps each unlock name whole, next to its picture.
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- Visiting a friend's aquarium now shows the same glass algae they see in their own aquarium.
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- Light beams in the aquarium now fall the same way as the fish shadows.
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- Decorations now need their own space on the sand, so they can no longer pile up on each other or block the glass.
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- Discord care reminders can now be turned on from your account, without waiting for a hidden switch.
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- Release notes, such as the one for version 0.5.5, open again instead of showing a missing page.
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- The Play as guest button stays inside the top bar of the front page instead of spilling out of it.
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- The iPhone app no longer asks you to update when nothing you need has changed.
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### 2026-09-14
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**14 September 2026**
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_New_
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- Two legendary fish, Lumi and Noir, swim in for keepers who reach level 100, with sounds all of their own.
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- Your fish now have names and are female or male, shown on their card once they hatch.
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- Tap a fish's name to rename it.
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- Pinch with two fingers to zoom in on your aquarium, drag to look around, and double-tap the water to zoom back out.
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- Press ? to see the keyboard shortcuts, change any key you like, and see each button's key right on it.
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- You can turn off the keyboard shortcut hints on buttons in Settings.
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- Explore has a new Friends tab that shows who is online.
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- Gifting now suggests your friends.
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- Aquariums in Explore can be filtered by level, by who is online now, and by people who follow each other.
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- The desktop game now opens fullscreen, after a splash for Lodos and Fishies.
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- The Field Guide has a new home with categories and search, and 15 new guides.
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- The site header has a Log in button, and the play button says Play as guest until you log in.
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- Care reminders for this device turn on with one switch in the notification bell.
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- The notification bell can be filtered by Care, Shop, Gifts, Social and System.
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- Missing pages and error pages now show a Fishies page with a way back home instead of a plain message.
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- The Windows setup dives into real-looking water with fish alongside, and keeps diving until the install finishes.
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- Each line in the cart has buttons to change its quantity, and the cart says when it is full.
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- The tool dock warns you before your stash fills up.
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- Room windows, the chat and the tutorial card remember where you dragged them on this device.
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- The shop remembers where you left off, and you can search and sort its items.
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- The desktop app shows which account you are signed in as, with Switch account and Sign out.
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_Improved_
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- The shop fits phone screens, and scrolling or swiping past a category's last page moves on to the next category.
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- The shop fits two rows of items on typical desktop screens.
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- The shop's top bar is tidier.
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- The stash has its own button in the tool dock, with a painted chest icon that matches the toolbar.
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- Selling from the stash asks you to confirm first.
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- Cleaning, feeding and netting keep the tool in your hand, so you can keep clicking, and the tool animations are snappier.
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- The Feed everyone button and its shortcut are gone, so feeding is hands-on again.
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- After placing a fish or decoration from the shop, right-click or Cancel takes you back to the shop page you were on.
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- Decorations can be dragged to a new spot in one motion, from the tank or after pressing Move.
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- On phones and tablets, the placement guide has a larger Cancel button and no mouse hint.
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- Fish gathered with the net leave the tank until they are sold.
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- The fish net plays its whole scoop and skips fish that have not grown up yet.
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- The net review shows each fish by its own name, with its species underneath.
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- Pop-up messages and the Open Water fish picker call your fish by name, with their species alongside.
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- A fish's details always show its growth, food and sale value, even when they are full, with growth and food as plain percentages.
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- The fish on the loading screen swim with real fins and tails instead of sliding pictures.
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- In a full aquarium, fish glide past one another instead of bumping and flipping back and forth.
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- Selling a fish as a guest now tells you to sign in to earn coins.
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- The tutorial fish grows up in five seconds, so there is no wait once it is ready.
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- App updates on iOS and Android download only what changed, not the whole game.
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- The desktop app's window opens sized to your screen, from small laptops to ultrawide monitors.
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- The opening logos stay on screen a little longer, and a click skips the Fishies logo.
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- Privacy Policy and Terms open inside the app and are always one tap away.
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- Tapping a care reminder takes you straight to the hungry fish, the new hatchling or the dirty glass.
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- Tap a notification to jump to what it is about, and clear the list one by one or all at once.
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- The home page now lists Steam as coming soon.
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_Fixed_
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- Link previews of Fishies pages are wide again everywhere, and still read cleanly when WhatsApp shows them small.
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- Link preview pictures for Fishies are sharper, with smooth water and clean fish.
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- Signing in with X or Google works in the iPhone app.
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- On wide screens the chat box no longer covers the tool dock's Feed button or its tooltips.
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- Open Water plants only grow from the seabed, so no kelp floats at the top of the water.
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- Opening an aquarium straight after an update no longer crashes.
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- The public aquariums list on the home page no longer gets stuck loading.
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- The net can no longer catch a legendary fish.
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- Fish you let go from the net splash back in the right way up and glide smoothly into the water.
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- The coin balance in the shop looks the same and lines up on every tab.
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- The coin icon in Aquarium options no longer blows up over the settings list.
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- Fish buttons and labels show their proper text again instead of placeholder words.
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- T and Enter open the chat instead of clicking the fish under the cursor.
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- The chat's players online count updates as soon as you connect, instead of sometimes showing zero.
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- The tutorial tells you your fish is growing, and only says it is ready once it can be sold.
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- Dragging a decoration straight across the tank now keeps it where you drop it.
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- In the guide, search results open above the page, species filters work, table headers match the look, and the cards line up.
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- Signing in to the desktop app through your browser works again, and both screens say exactly where it stands.
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- Signing in to the desktop app from a browser set to Turkish no longer drops you into the game without asking.
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- In the desktop app, Escape closes windows and menus again, and the options menu has a Quit game button.
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- The welcome cards no longer come back after you reinstall, and the release notes card fits neatly on phones.
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- The fish menu no longer offers to sell every adult of a species in one go.
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- Lumi and Noir's smiles look like curves now, not jagged squiggles.
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- The website's pages load again after an outage.
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### 2026-09-06
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**Pre-alpha (6–13 September 2026)**
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Fishies went live on 6 September 2026 as a small aquarium you could fill with reef fish. The week that followed turned it from a tank into a place to share.
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_The aquarium_
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The tank got a fresh look, clearer tools and smoother play on phones. Every new keeper now started with a gifted egg, and its first hatch was a small celebration. Four more reef fish joined the shop, and many fish were redrawn.
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_Keepers together_
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You could visit a friend's aquarium, and soon join it as one of your own fish. Gifts arrived, so an egg or a decoration could travel from one tank to another, and the shop got a cart. Open Water opened: a shared sea where keepers swim and meet.
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_Easier to start_
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You could play as a guest first and save your aquarium to an account later. In-game notices gathered behind a bell, the Field Guide was refreshed, and Fishies got its first Discussions page and new music.
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That was pre-alpha. Everything since is in the daily patch notes, starting on 14 September.
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