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Getting started

Your first fish, your account and the basics of how an aquarium works.

• Your first fish · A free Clownfish egg walks you through the whole care loop in about a minute.
• Signing in & saving progress · Play straight away as a guest, then save your aquarium to an account whenever you like.
• Tools at a glance · What each button in the dock does, and the buttons in the corner.
• The Menu · The Menu button at the top right: every room of the game on one page, grouped, each with its live badge and its key.
• Power keys and commands · Chat channels, slash commands, presence, keyboard shortcuts and detailed hover cards, for keepers who play every day.
• The Reef Journal · The in-game guide and its public twin: where to find it and what it holds.
• Collections · The Reef Journal's set pages: what counts, every page, and the one-time reward each pays.
• Sound & music · The soundtrack, the two levels and how to mute.
• Time & being away · Your aquarium keeps living while you're gone.

Caring for fish

Eggs, food, growing up and keeping the glass clear.

• Eggs & hatching · What happens between placing an egg and having a fish.
• Feeding & hunger · When a fish needs food, and what looking after it earns.
• Growing up · How a fish grows from hatchling to adult, and how long it takes.
• Algae & cleaning · Why the glass gets cloudy, and what slows it down.
• Water quality · How clear your aquarium's water is, what keeps it clear, and what cloudy water costs you.
• Water temperature · Why every fish has a comfortable temperature, what the heater does, and how to set it for a mixed aquarium.
• Health & the Remedy · How a fish’s health rises and falls, when it falls sick, and how the Remedy cures it.
• Quality, condition & breeding · What looking after a fish well adds up to, and where fry come from.
• Breeding and partners · How pairs form, the real odds of an egg, and where to read them.
• Grade · One number from 0 to 100 that says how fine a fish is.
• Your fish's card · What a fish's card tells you, and how to read what changed.
• Wardrobe · Dress your fish: the five slots, where pieces come from, and how they fit every shape.
• Reminders · What Fishies can tell you while you're not looking.
• Stars · Where a species sits on the level ladder, from one star to five.
• Care level · How much attention on-time care asks for: Easy, Steady or Demanding.

Economy

Coins, selling, the shop, levels and the rarest fish of all.

• Coins · How keepers earn coins and what they spend them on.
• Selling fish & decorations · What fish and decorations are worth, and when.
• The Net · How to sell grown fish and collect lost ones.
• Build & Buy · 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.
• Levels & experience · How experience adds up and what each level brings.
• Keeper's Path · The five choices of the level ladder: your Calling, your Specialisation, an aquarium feature, a Deepening and your Signature.
• Mastery and expansions · What happens at the end of the Keeper's Path: Mastery stars, their titles and ring finishes, and how new levels arrive.
• Daily reward and streak · The streak that counts every day in a row, how its reward grows, the milestone days, what a missed day does, and the first-dive bonus for Pearl Catch.
• Quests · The story your aquarium tells, one quest at a time, and the achievements you choose to follow beside it.
• Next goal and gifts · The one line that says what to do next, how to skip it, and the gear that arrives as a gift when you first need it.
• Quest chains · Six sets of goals that open as you first try each part of the game, and the story that goes on to level one hundred.
• Achievements · Milestones that pay coins and XP, and how to follow the ones you're after.
• Legendary fish · Two one-of-a-kind fish for keepers who reach the end of the Keeper's Path.
• Item rarity · Five steps from common to mythic, for the things you make or find.

Aquarium & decor

Plants, ornaments, the Pantry and how much your aquarium can hold.

• Decorating your aquarium · Placing and moving plants and ornaments, and choosing a floor.
• Rooms and themes · Choose the room your aquarium stands in and the water inside it. Just for looks.
• The keeper's house · Your whole house in one picture: seven rooms, and the screen each one opens.
• The Pantry · The room of your house where food, decorations, eggs and resting fish are kept.
• Workshop and recipes · The bench in your aquarium's cabinet: materials, the culture drawer, mixing recipes and bench upgrades.
• Research · Study new levers for your aquarium with Notes, coins and real time: the tree, its branches and its crowns.
• Room in your aquarium · How many fish and decorations fit, and how that grows.
• More aquariums · Buying a second and a third aquarium in Build & Buy, enlarging one, and moving fish between them.
• Filters & auto-feeders · Equipment that keeps the water clear and the fish fed, and what it costs to keep running.

Social

Visiting other keepers, following, gifts and chat.

• Visiting aquariums · What a keeper's address shows, and what visitors can do there.
• Sharing your aquarium · The link, the snapshot, the preview picture, the embed, the README card and the stream overlay.
• Finding & following keepers · Finding other keepers, and keeping up with the ones you like.
• Gifts · Sending another keeper an egg or a decoration.
• Egg Swap · Trading one bred egg for a friend’s, one for one.
• Chat · Talking with other keepers across the reef, in the room you're in, or in private.
• Schools · A group of keepers of your own: joining, roles, the Cove and School chat.
• Stall and trading · Selling Pantry food, grown fish, eggs and potted plants to other keepers, buying theirs on the Market, and making offers.
• Exhibition and fame · The weekly aquarium show in the Showcase Gallery, voting, ribbons and trophies, server-wide news, titles, the records hall and school fame.
• Community · The keepers' forum at fishies.lol/community: questions, ideas, bug reports, guides and aquariums worth showing.

World

Swimming beyond your own glass, in Open Water and in friends' aquariums.

• Open Water · Swim out as one of your fish and meet other keepers.
• Sea folk · Ollie, Marlo, Captain Shelby, Pip and Lumen live out in Open Water. Talk to them, make friends and hear their stories.
• Expeditions · Send a team of your grown fish to the Trench or the Vents and wait for what they bring home.
• Swimming in a friend's aquarium · Join another keeper's aquarium as one of your own fish.
• Halloween · Trick-or-treating at other keepers’ aquariums while the Halloween party runs.

About the game

Platforms, requirements, languages, accounts and what to do when something goes wrong.

• Platforms and updates · Where Fishies runs today, what's coming, and how each version keeps itself up to date.
• System requirements · What Fishies needs to run well, in a browser, on desktop or on a phone.
• Languages · Fishies ships in thirteen languages today, chosen per player and saved to your account.
• Accounts, guests and saving progress · How guest play, sign-in and account deletion work, and what happens to your aquarium in each.
• Lost your phone or can't sign in? · What to try for each sign-in method when a phone is lost or a sign-in stops working, and how to ask the team for help.
• Alpha: what it means · Fishies is in alpha: still being built in the open, with rules for what may change and how to report a problem.
• Troubleshooting · What to try when the game won't load, sign-in gets stuck, sound is missing, or the desktop app misbehaves.
• Version history · Where to read what changed, release by release.