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Feeding & hunger
When a fish needs food, and what looking after it earns.
Food is free
Choose Feed and click the water to drop some food. Basic food is free and never runs out, so feeding never costs you a coin.
A newly hatched fish needs its first meal. After that, a fish gets hungry again 4 hours after each feeding, or a third of its growth time after it if that is longer.
Select a fish and choose Feed on its card or in its menu to drop food just for that fish: it swims to it, and no other fish takes it.
Three foods
Flake is free and always will be; the other two are an upgrade you choose, never a gate. If you pick one you cannot afford, the fish is fed flake instead of being left hungry. Their price is a fraction of the fish’s own, so they stay affordable wherever you are in the game.
- Flake · free, an everyday meal.
- Pellet · keeps a fish fed twice as long, and moves its whole care clock out with it.
- Brine shrimp · three times as long, puts health back, and always counts as a perfect meal for quality.
What feeding earns
Feeding a hungry fish earns 5 XP. Feeding it again straight away doesn't repeat the reward: it has to get hungry again first.
While you're away
An auto-feeder feeds each fish from its hopper the moment it gets hungry, for as long as the hopper lasts: flake, or pellets or brine shrimp you paid for. Feeder meals count toward quality just like the same meal by hand, but they earn no XP and no coins, so feeding by hand still pays more, and it still works with a feeder installed.
Too long without food
Hunger matters. A fish is lost if it goes unfed for 1 day or twice its species' growth time, whichever is longer, counted from its last meal or from hatching. Its card warns you when it's starving.
A lost fish can be collected with the Net, but it pays nothing. Your tutorial fish and legendary fish can never be lost this way.
In the game: https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/feeding · Fishies 0.8.3
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