# Health & the Remedy

_How a fish’s health rises and falls, when it falls sick, and how the Remedy cures it._

## Health keeps a fish alive

Every fish has a health stat, shown on its card and kept on the fish itself. Hunger drains it, and green glass drains it faster. Food and clean water bring it back, but not at once: health returns over the hours after a meal, so a fish that has been through a bad spell stays weak for a while.

Below sixty percent the fish is sick, and it shows. At zero it is lost. A well-kept fish empties exactly at the moment the old starvation deadline said it would, so nothing about ordinary care has changed; what is new is that health remembers. A fish in poor health also sells for a little less and will not breed.

## The Remedy

A sick fish (60% health or less) can take a Remedy: choose Feed, pick Remedy among the foods and tap the water. Only sick fish go for the capsule. One Remedy cures it back to full health and costs a quarter of the fish's own price, paid only when the fish swallows it; a capsule nobody eats dissolves at no cost. A fish above 60% refuses it. It is medicine, not a meal, so the fish still needs feeding, and it does not raise its quality.

## Remedy capsules

A [daily streak](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/daily-streak) milestone can give Remedy capsules instead of coins or care credit. They are kept until a fish falls sick: the next Remedy you give uses a capsule first, so it costs no coins.

## Keeping fish well

Health only falls while a fish is hungry or the glass is green, so everyday care keeps it full.

- Feed before a fish’s fed time runs out. An [auto-feeder](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/filters-and-feeders) keeps meals coming while you are away.
- [Clean the glass](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/cleaning) when algae shows: green glass drains health faster, even in a fed fish. A [filter](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/filters-and-feeders) slows the algae down.
- [Legendary fish](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/legendary) and the tutorial fish never fall sick.

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