Help with Fish Tycoon
 

Been playing for 2 weeks, I have bought all the research, all the fish egg types, used the unknown chemical (mutation chemical) 4 times, yet still only have found 2 of the Mystery Fish.

I have the following Mystery fish:

Canary Fire-Arrow fish (The Golden Guppy of Isola)

Wasp Grouper fish (Magic Fish of Mutation)


I have found 98 species & have been breeding them, but can't get anymore magic fish.

Any suggestions, this is getting boring.

Thanks!

try the forum at LDW.com

I only bought the game today so I can't help but maybe at the forum you'd find some tips!

I've only found 1 magic fish and 42 species, been playing for 251 hours, but mostly saving up money by breeding the same expensive fish over and over. Right now I have about $6,000 in the bank, so I've started experimenting more. I haven't tried the unknown chemical yet. I need to empty my tanks a little before I start adding too many new species.

Thanks for the forum idea, it really helped!

glad it helped!

does anyone know whether the salesroom screen has to be open for the fish to sell or do they also get sold in the background too?

I think it does. I haven't read that anywhere officially, just something I've noticed. I kind of like the feature because it's harder to accidentally sell something (when my tanks get crowded I put the babies in there to wait for them to grow up). However, it can be boring waiting on the selling screen.

In other news, I used the unknown chemical, and now I have three magic fish!

which expensive fish are you refering to? I could do with raising some money for fish environment research! And new eggs!

thanks for the reply btw

I got the magic fish of fertility, and all I did was purchase a new batch of eggs from the supply store. It was among the newborns.

I also had the magic plant from isola in the tank, so I don' t know if that had anything to do with it.

Hi UM,

WHICH batch of fish eggs did you buy? The cheap, medium, or expensive eggs?

I bought the cheapest ones. The fertility fish is the first magic fish I discovered.

When I first started out, I created some fish whose name I can't remember (they're blue with orange fins) which I was able to sell for about $25 at first, which was a lot at the time. So I just kept breeding them with each other to save up money. After I progressed through the environment levels and got the magic plants I started cross-breeding more. My most expensive non-magic fish right now is the oriental carp (orange-and-white with purple fins) which I have priced at $70. I was very lucky to get multiples of my last two magic fish, so I can keep breeding them. I have one type (the golden guppy of Isola) selling for $400.

I haven't kept good track of which combinations led to which fish, I just picked whatever fish was the most valuable of the ones I currently had and kept breeding it.

> I got the magic fish of fertility, and all I did was purchase a new
> batch of eggs from the supply store. It was among the newborns.

Yes. Any fish can be hatched from a random egg, even all of the Magic Fish.

But, there are over 400 fish in the game, so finding one in a random scoop of eggs is sort of rare. Well, except for that Fish of Fertility. That one is made up of common fish parts, so it is quite possible to get one from a scoop of common eggs.

There are three ways to find a Magic Fish. The first is to find one in a batch of random eggs. The second way is to find one randomly by mutating existing fish. The third way is the expected way. You keep a log of what fish will be created when you breed two other fish together. After a while, you can figure out what you need to breed together to get the fish you want.

Hi Flash,

I have a question. I accidently made (& then accidently sold), a magic fish - The Magic Fish of Health - so I don't have it anymore (other than in the Trophy Case).

I never got a chance to breed it, & I don't know who the parents are.

Do I need this fish in order to get: #1, and #2 Magic Fish (the last 2 I have to find).

Thanks!

Not at all. Each Magic Fish is completely independant of every other fish in the game. Keep in mind that, for most Magic Fish (and all fish), there are many different ways to breed that fish.

If Magic Fish #4, for example, is a Trout with Blue fins (a made-up name), then you can breed a Flounder with Striped fins with an Octopus with Olive fins to get one. Or, you can breed a Flounder with Olive fins with an Octopus with Striped fins. And there are probably 10 other combinations of fish that will get you a Trout with Blue fins. No matter how you created that Blue-finned Trout, it will be Magic Fish #4.

And don't worry too much if you sold off or killed a Magic Fish. All you need to worry about is whether that fish shows up on your trophy wall.

By the way, if you don't want to accidently sell off a fish (Magic or not), simply raise the price of it by $1,000. No one will buy it.

Surprisingly, Magic Fish #1, which is a common fish, is both the easiest and hardest fish to get. I'll leave you with that little riddle for a while.