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Decorating your aquarium
Placing and moving plants and ornaments, and choosing a floor.
Placing decorations
Pick a plant or decoration in Build & Buy, or in your Pantry, then tap the aquarium floor where it should go. In Build & Buy you can also drag its card straight into the water.
Plants lean and sway with the current, while ornaments stand still. Both slow down algae, and plants do it best.
Each piece needs a little free sand around its root; leaves and branches may overlap, as in a real planted aquarium. Before you tap, the preview shows where it will stand: on a taken spot it slides to the nearest free sand, and it turns red when there is no room nearby.
Moving things around
Drag a decoration to a new spot whenever you like. To rearrange more, choose Arrange in the aquarium's menu (right-click or hold the water) or press R: your fish step back until you press Done. The rest of the screen steps aside while you arrange, so a drag never lands on a button, and the arranging tools sit in one bar on the stand.
While arranging, tap a piece to pick it up and tap the sand to put it down, or drag it. Undo (or Ctrl+Z) takes the last step back. Store all puts every decoration and plant into the Pantry at once for a fresh start, and Undo brings them all back where they stood.
Layouts saves your arrangement under a name, up to five for each aquarium. Applying one puts back every piece it names, from the aquarium or the Pantry; anything you no longer have is listed and skipped. Moving is free and earns no extra experience, so your aquarium is never really finished.
Auto arrange lays out every decoration and plant for you: tall pieces at the back and sides, short ones and carpets along the front, a centrepiece off to one side and open water for your fish. Your most valuable and striking pieces take the spotlight near the front, nothing hides behind a taller piece, and small pieces gather in little clusters. Shuffle tries another layout, Keep this layout saves it and Undo leaves everything where it was. Equipment stays put.
The aquarium floor
Choose one of 12 floors for your aquarium. A floor is just for looks: it never changes your fish, coins or experience.
4 floors are free from the start. The other 8 are bought once with coins:
- They open from level 5 to level 45 and cost 600 to 35,000 coins.
- A floor you bought is yours in every aquarium, and swapping between the floors you own is free.
- Visitors see the floor you chose.
Fish among your decorations
Fish swim among your decorations: in front of them, behind them, through their leaves and over their tops, in an enlarged aquarium as in any other. A piece with a fish passing behind it turns see-through until the fish is clear, so you can always see your fish.
Matched sets
Every ornament belongs to one set named for a place in the world: Lagoon, Shipwreck, Ruins, Ice Shelf, Vents or Gallery. Plants and prizes belong to none. The decoration card names its set and, in your own aquarium, how many of its pieces stand there.
Place 3 different pieces of one set in an aquarium and every fish living there gains quality 5% faster. It counts once however many sets you match, three copies of one piece do not count, and it never raises a ceiling, never lowers a quality a fish already has and gives no coins or experience.
The Quality tab of a fish card shows the row “Matched set” with the set's name while it applies.
Changed your mind?
A decoration sells back for half its price. See Selling fish & decorations.
In the game: https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/decorating · Fishies 0.8.12
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