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# Build & Buy
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_Where you buy, own and place everything: fish, decorations, plants, food, equipment and the aquarium's look. A shop window on a big screen, a drawer over your aquarium on a phone._
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## Opening it
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Press Build & Buy in the dock (key 6, or 5 for Decor). On a big screen it opens as the shop: tabs along the top, a grid of cards and a pane with every number of the one you pick, where you buy it, keep a decoration in your Pantry for later or send it as a gift. On a phone on its side, a drawer opens along the bottom of the screen and your aquarium slides up above it, still live, so you set things down on the real sand with your fish swimming around them; tap a card to read it in full. Done or Esc closes it.
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Its tabs are Decor, Plants, Equipment, Fish, Food and Room, with the Party and Wardrobe counters while they are open. It opens on the tab you came for: the Pantry's things open it on Owned, a Change button in My Aquarium on that part of the aquarium.
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## Owned and for sale, side by side
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What you own and what is on sale share one shelf. A piece you own wears a green Owned chip with how many are waiting in your [Pantry](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/stash); a piece you don't own shows its gold price. Owned pieces come first, then what you can buy, then what is still locked.
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Locked pieces stay on the shelf in full colour, with a chip naming what opens them: a level, or where an Arena prize or a wild egg is found. On the Equipment tab, Research items show a lock naming their node; tap it to open that node in the [Research](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/research) app.
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The chips beside the tabs show All, Owned, Can buy or Locked, and the magnifier searches the tab you are on. Each card also says how many of that piece are already in your aquarium.
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Every week three fish stand at the top of the Fish tab, whatever their level, most of them a quarter off; now and then one is a brand new fish at its normal price. If you could already buy that fish, buy as many as you like. If it is above your level or normally only found on expeditions, you can buy one of it that week.
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## Placing
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Drag a card up into the water and let go: a ghost of the piece follows your pointer over the sand and lands where you drop it. If you don't own it yet, it is bought as it lands, for the price on its card. The server confirms in the background; if the coins or the room aren't there, the piece is taken back and a note says why.
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On a phone, tap a card, then tap the spot. An owned stack stays in your hand until the last one is placed, so you can set several down in a row. Cancel or Esc lets go. Buy 5 or more pieces before you close the drawer and 8% of what they cost comes back when you close it, the same saving the cart once gave.
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A fish's card pays the XP of buying its egg and of selling it grown; a decoration pays its XP only the first time you place one of its kind. A plant keeps the water clean for some fish (all your plants together up to 6 fish), and every decoration keeps the glass clear longer (all together up to 4× longer).
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## The aquarium's look and equipment
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The Room tab dresses the aquarium: its Theme (the water and the back wall), the Room it stands in and its Floor, plus Aquariums, where you switch between your aquariums, rename the one you are in, buy [another aquarium](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/aquariums) or enlarge this one. The Equipment tab holds the Filter, Heater and Feeder ([filters and feeders](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/filters-and-feeders)), the Conditioning Box and what Research opens.
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Tap a card to put it in at once. If it costs coins, they are paid as it goes in; a filter or heater never replaces a better one you already have. Food packs on the Food tab go straight into your Pantry in grams.
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## When you can't buy something
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A card says why it can't be had: not enough coins, a level you haven't reached yet, or no room left. See [Room in your aquarium](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/capacity).
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In the game: https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/shop · Fishies 0.8.24
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This page is generated. Its text lives in [`locales/en-GB.json`](../../../locales/en-GB.json) under `wiki.topics.shop`; correct it there.
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