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# Decorating your aquarium
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_Placing and moving plants and ornaments, and choosing a floor._
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## Placing decorations
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Pick a plant or decoration in [Build & Buy](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/shop), or in your [Pantry](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/stash), then tap the aquarium floor where it should go. In Build & Buy you can also drag its card straight into the water.
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Plants lean and sway with the current, while ornaments stand still. Both slow down [algae](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/cleaning), and plants do it best.
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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.
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## Moving things around
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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.
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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](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/stash) at once for a fresh start, and Undo brings them all back where they stood.
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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.
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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.
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## The aquarium floor
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Choose one of 12 floors for your aquarium. A floor is just for looks: it never changes your fish, coins or experience.
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4 floors are free from the start. The other 8 are bought once with coins:
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- They open from level 5 to level 45 and cost 600 to 35,000 coins.
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- A floor you bought is yours in every aquarium, and swapping between the floors you own is free.
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- Visitors see the floor you chose.
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## Fish among your decorations
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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.
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## Matched sets
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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.
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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.
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The Quality tab of a fish card shows the row “Matched set” with the set's name while it applies.
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## Changed your mind?
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A decoration sells back for half its price. See [Selling fish & decorations](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/economy).
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---
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In the game: https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/decorating · Fishies 0.8.15
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This page is generated. Its text lives in [`locales/en-GB.json`](../../../locales/en-GB.json) under `wiki.topics.decorating`; correct it there.
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