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Water quality
How clear your aquarium's water is, what keeps it clear, and what cloudy water costs you.
What the water reading means
Every aquarium has a water reading from 0 to 100%: how many fish it can keep in clear water, against how many it holds. Every fish counts, eggs and lost fish included. Only the legendary fish are left out, because water never touches them.
The gauge under your level and coins shows the water as Clear, Good, Cloudy or Murky, when your filter next needs a service and how long your feeder's food will last. Open it to see the numbers behind them and your filter's health.
What keeps water clear
Three things add up:
- The aquarium itself · 6 fish, with no help at all.
- Plants · every plant keeps a few more fish clear, and a plant that holds algae back longer also holds more water, up to 6 fish from all your plants together. Ornaments don't clean water; they slow algae instead.
- A filter · as many fish as its capacity while its cartridge is fresh. Your first Sponge Filter is a free gift.
What cloudy water does
At 70% or more the water is fine: fish grow at full speed and care can take them all the way to gold. Below that:
- Growth slows, down to 60% of its normal speed at the worst.
- Below 70%, gold quality is out of reach; below 50%, silver is too.
- Water never harms a fish's health and never stops growth outright.
Clearing it up
When the gauge turns Cloudy, any of these helps:
- Service a worn filter, or upgrade to a bigger one.
- Add plants.
- Sell grown fish with the Net, and collect lost ones: a lost fish fouls the water until it's netted.
In the game: https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/water · Fishies 0.8.24
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