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1. I read a guide (albeit an iPhone guide) that said you could tap on a neighbor's fish and get information about it and even buy it, or at least see which fish to use to breed it. It also mentioned sending messages and gifts to neighbors. Do any of these features work for the Android version? Tapping on my neighbor's fish does nothing but scatter them.
2. What does the tank lock feature do?
Thanks!
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As far as I can tell, no, you cannot look at any details about your neibhbors' fish. All you can do is clean their tanks and feed the fish for coins. I don't know what the lock tank does.
Yours are the only posts I've seen about this game on Androidforums. How do you like it? I am really addicted! I am tempted to buy fishbucks so I can start getting some more exotic fishes, but don't want to start down that road. I've managed to earn a few by downloading and trying the apps.
I enjoy it, but actually I just moved all my fish into the "storage"area so they won't die from neglect, because I'm getting a little burnt out with it. It's fairly repetitive with just feeding and cleaning.
I spent $10 on fishbucks just to try a few things, but yeah, I don't want to start spending money on the game.
My advice is to buy a few fishbucks just to get some of the better breedable fish and earn more coins. Play it until it's no longer fun, which is what I did.
Yeah, I should have specified, but I was posting from my Evo
So yeah, I moved them all to my inventory because I read (and I hope it's true) that while they are in the inventory, they don't need to be fed and they won't die.
Basically I'm taking a break from it, and I'm probably done with it. It was fun for a couple of weeks, but there's really nothing to do but feed them and clean the tank.
Probably what gives the game lasting value is breeding fish for different trophies, but the problem is that you need to buy most of them with Fish Bucks, and there is pretty much no way to get them except for buying them with real money. Like you, I wasn't interested in that kind of investment for a casual game.
Same here. Gave up after a couple of weeks - had lots of tanks and making tens of thousands of coins but the fish bucks are a big restriction. Most of the time you don't get them when you download apps so you get bored quickly.
I have no idea what locking a tank does...and i've read some things about the iphone version and it has different fish and prices so i think being able to get info about friends' fish is limited to their version
I haven't gotten too bored with the game yet since reaching higher levels unlocks new fish...I'm looking forward to buying some sharks, etc...I've spent about $20 on fish bucks but I pretty much have used them all on buying the high dollar breedable fish like the Sailfin Tang and the new Flower Fish that came out yesterday or sometime recently.
The Banded Butterfly fish are the best as far as making coins; 24 hour breed time, 80 coin egg cost (x50 = 4000 per tank) and if your happiness is >90% you can batch sell the tank for about 9600 coins
however as far as experience, Green Snappers are the way to go...since they only take 4 hours to grow, you can get lots of experience from them...lets say you have 10 tanks with 50 green snappers each...in 4 hours, you'll make 500 xp from planting the 500 fish eggs, another 1000 xp for batch selling each tank and another 10-20 from feeding and loving the fish...thats over 1500 xp in 4 hours, which you can do multiple times per day
it gets repetitive though, i wish you could buy and plant and feed 50 eggs in a batch way like selling instead of having to manually tap your screen 100 times per tank including food
feel free to add my tank if you want, i try to have some good variety, its called TreeTank
Last edited by Akwatic; May 15th, 2011 at 07:28 PM.
Reason: addendum about iphone version
Yeah, I should have specified, but I was posting from my Evo
So yeah, I moved them all to my inventory because I read (and I hope it's true) that while they are in the inventory, they don't need to be fed and they won't die.
Basically I'm taking a break from it, and I'm probably done with it. It was fun for a couple of weeks, but there's really nothing to do but feed them and clean the tank.
Probably what gives the game lasting value is breeding fish for different trophies, but the problem is that you need to buy most of them with Fish Bucks, and there is pretty much no way to get them except for buying them with real money. Like you, I wasn't interested in that kind of investment for a casual game.
well, cleaning and feeding is about all you can do with real fish too and they are a lot more trouble! I enjoy the buying and selling at a profit and also visiting neighbors. Some people have some spectacular tanks and have obviously spent a lot of real money. The breeding is fun but so slow. I got lucky with the first one I bred , the green clown, because with happiness points I sold it for nearly 2000 and bought a new tank. I didn't realize that none of the other starter hybrids were worth that much.
I wish there was more opportunity to buy a new fish with coins at each succeeding level instead of having to wait until the zillionth level to get something new. I am still working to get to level 8!
TreeTank I will visit you. Thanks for the tip about the green snapper being the best for xp but it is a pain to have to buy and feed one at a time. At starter level, the yellow heartfish is the most profitable.
By the way, if friends or random neighbors visit you and clean your tan and/or feed your fish, does that "count" towards the fish being looked after? i.e., if you forget to do it for 48 hours but someone else visits you, will your fish be saved?
1. I read a guide (albeit an iPhone guide) that said you could tap on a neighbor's fish and get information about it and even buy it, or at least see which fish to use to breed it. It also mentioned sending messages and gifts to neighbors. Do any of these features work for the Android version? Tapping on my neighbor's fish does nothing but scatter them.
2. What does the tank lock feature do?
Thanks!
I finally figured out Lock Tank and it's very useful! It prevents you from selling fish from that tank.
I'm saying it's useful because I think I had mistakenly sold a breedable fish that I had used fishbucks to buy. I have one bred fish from it but I can't find the original parent (Yellow Longnose - not one of the high-value ones, but still...).
BTW, did your fish survive in inventory without you visiting them and feeding them?
And yeah, I finally broke down and spent $20 to get some fishbucks with which I bought a new breeding tank and the high-value breedables. I have also bought quite a few things with free fishbucks I earned by downloading apps - most of which I have since uninstalled. I'm determined to limit my real expenditure to this initial investment because $20 is a lot to spend on a phone app! - it's actually the first real money I've spent on any app so far!
I got to level 43 today (lots of Green Snappers grown and harvested), and in addition to getting a bonus of coins, I think 2500, I got a bonus fishbuck
I'm hoping that every time I gain a level from now on I get at least one fishbuck, hopefully more the higher the levels
It takes awhile to get to level 43, but just a heads up for anyone who wants fishbucks but doesnt want to spend real money on them...hopefully you get some for every level from 43 and on
also the Sailfin Box (Sailfin Tang + Boxfish breed) can be sold as an adult with 90%+ happiness for 75675 coins!!
I got to level 43 today (lots of Green Snappers grown and harvested), and in addition to getting a bonus of coins, I think 2500, I got a bonus fishbuck
I'm hoping that every time I gain a level from now on I get at least one fishbuck, hopefully more the higher the levels
It takes awhile to get to level 43, but just a heads up for anyone who wants fishbucks but doesnt want to spend real money on them...hopefully you get some for every level from 43 and on
also the Sailfin Box (Sailfin Tang + Boxfish breed) can be sold as an adult with 90%+ happiness for 75675 coins!!
Wow, how long did it take you to get to level 43?
I have the Sailfin Tang and Boxfish, so am looking forward to breeding. Today I made over 50,000 coins with a glowfish/sailfin hybrid.
It probably took me 2-3 weeks to get to level 43...although early on my XP was growing a lot slower, but the more tanks I added, the higher XP
I have a total of 20 tanks, and I use about 15 of them for breeding...you can progress through levels pretty quickly with 2-3 batches full of Green Snapper a day, although the XP required to gain levels goes up from 5000xp per level to 10000xp per level once you get to 100,000 xp
one thing i did just see on the game developer's website is "Free fishbucks after level 40!"
i didnt notice the free fishbuck until level 43, but at levels 40 and 42 specifically, i was more excited about being able to unlock new fish (i think Shark at 40 and Kribensa at 42) that i might not have noticed them
i have a full grown Sailfin Box that i havent sold in my tank 20 / FavBreed tank if you want to see it since you're a neighbor, its the orange fish with black spots
but you did a good job buying the Sailfin Tang, if I had to recommend ONE single breedable fish to yield the highest results with breeding, it would be the Sailfin Tang...I mean the Sailfin Snapper (Sailfin + Green Snapper) will sell for over $41000 with 90% happiness
I have every breedable fish myself, but the Sailfin Tang + Boxfish is the highest priced breedable fish that I've noticed while scanning through the trophy values
I'm looking forward to selling my tank full of Swordfish in about an hour when they're full grown adults...with 57 minutes left a batch sell would yield me over 689,000 coins, and thats with the 15% commission
thanks for the tip about locking tanks too, just locked my Skid Row tank which is full of all my breedable fish
It probably took me 2-3 weeks to get to level 43...although early on my XP was growing a lot slower, but the more tanks I added, the higher XP
I have a total of 20 tanks, and I use about 15 of them for breeding...you can progress through levels pretty quickly with 2-3 batches full of Green Snapper a day, although the XP required to gain levels goes up from 5000xp per level to 10000xp per level once you get to 100,000 xp
one thing i did just see on the game developer's website is "Free fishbucks after level 40!"
i didnt notice the free fishbuck until level 43, but at levels 40 and 42 specifically, i was more excited about being able to unlock new fish (i think Shark at 40 and Kribensa at 42) that i might not have noticed them
i have a full grown Sailfin Box that i havent sold in my tank 20 / FavBreed tank if you want to see it since you're a neighbor, its the orange fish with black spots
but you did a good job buying the Sailfin Tang, if I had to recommend ONE single breedable fish to yield the highest results with breeding, it would be the Sailfin Tang...I mean the Sailfin Snapper (Sailfin + Green Snapper) will sell for over $41000 with 90% happiness
I have every breedable fish myself, but the Sailfin Tang + Boxfish is the highest priced breedable fish that I've noticed while scanning through the trophy values
I'm looking forward to selling my tank full of Swordfish in about an hour when they're full grown adults...with 57 minutes left a batch sell would yield me over 689,000 coins, and thats with the 15% commission
thanks for the tip about locking tanks too, just locked my Skid Row tank which is full of all my breedable fish
How are you able to breed the sailfin box so quickly? Didn't the boxfish just become available a couple of days ago?
I made myself an excel spreadsheet with all the combinations of breedable fish in order to figure out the best buys for my limited fishbucks.I'm determined not to spend any more than the $20 I've spent already!
You must be spending a lot of time to get to this level already. Such an addictive game!
which is your favorite hybrid fish so far? -TapRos
I bought the Boxfish the day it came out and had an open breeding slot, then I accidentally bred another one
I like the Glow Rainbow and Glow Bannerfish a good bit
I basically sell and plant new eggs in the morning after I wake up and feed them, and make sure to do the same thing at least once before I go to bed...if you have enough tanks it doesn't take as long as you think
got to level 44 earlier today and got another free fishbuck!
BTW, did your fish survive in inventory without you visiting them and feeding them?
I can't say for sure because I have since uninstalled the app, but I've read on the Facebook page that moving them to the inventory will prevent them from dying of malnutrition. Hopefully that's the case!
I had to reinstall the app after doing a few things with my phone, and I was able to recover all my fish/coins/fishbucks/tanks etc by going to 'About Tap Fish' in the lower left corner of the menu screen, then selecting 'Restore Game'
So if you ever did want to reinstall it, you should be able to restore all of your data
I had to reinstall the app after doing a few things with my phone, and I was able to recover all my fish/coins/fishbucks/tanks etc by going to 'About Tap Fish' in the lower left corner of the menu screen, then selecting 'Restore Game'
So if you ever did want to reinstall it, you should be able to restore all of your data
Thanks. I was assuming the data was stored on a server anyway, so uninstalling didn't matter.
I bought the Boxfish the day it came out and had an open breeding slot, then I accidentally bred another one
I like the Glow Rainbow and Glow Bannerfish a good bit
I basically sell and plant new eggs in the morning after I wake up and feed them, and make sure to do the same thing at least once before I go to bed...if you have enough tanks it doesn't take as long as you think
got to level 44 earlier today and got another free fishbuck!
You do have a bunch of nice fish. The one thing that bugs me is that the tanks keep increasing in cost and that one can't get more than two breeding tanks without paying for fishbucks.
I think it's perfectly reasonable for the developers to make money by selling fishbucks and it really is a well designed app but I also think they charge way too much.
How many breeding tanks do you have and Have you used fishbucks to speed up the breeding?
I had to reinstall the app after doing a few things with my phone, and I was able to recover all my fish/coins/fishbucks/tanks etc by going to 'About Tap Fish' in the lower left corner of the menu screen, then selecting 'Restore Game'
So if you ever did want to reinstall it, you should be able to restore all of your data
That's good to know you don't lose everything if something happens to your phone!
If you speed up breeding, regardless of how much time is left, your fish will be finished breeding and ready to add to a tank
So if you are going to speed up breeding, you might as well do it on a fish with 3 days left instead of wasting the same amount of fishbucks on a fish with 3 hours left
I think I'm just going to have to continue to be patient! I only have 3 breeding tanks. They are fairly well staggered but it still is a long wait between each one.
Has anyone at level 38 or below upgraded to the new version of TapFish 1.04?
It says with the new version you get a free fishbuck at every level, but since I'm above level 40 where I get a fishbuck anytime I advance anyway, I was wondering if anyone has gotten a free fishbuck for leveling up after upgrading to the new version of the app?
I didn't get 40 free bucks for my previous level ups or anything, but it would be nice for the lower level people to get some free fishbucks as they level up!
I just missed a free fishbuck because I didn't know about it before and upgraded moments after leveling up, so I'm looking forward to reaching the next level!
Sorry you missed out on the first 40 or so fishbucks, Akwatik!
For anybody who is curious about what all the bred fish look like, one neighbor seems to have all, or most, of them. His/her fish name is ensitankado.
Last edited by droidros; May 28th, 2011 at 09:42 AM.
I'm having an issue today - this is the first time something hasn't worked properly for me in Tapfish. I bought my Tank 8 and added some fish to it. Then I bought a number of decorations, including the Fairy Tale Castle which is supposed to add 5 happiness points, and two coral reefs that add 3 each. I also moved some 1-point items from other tanks. When it reached 89% happiness, it wouldn't go any further, regardless of what I added. There were no hungry fish and I had expressed my love. I then tried moving things out one at a time and adding them to another tank. The other tanks would register the additional points, but Tank 8 seemed stuck at 89%. Then I moved everything out and it went down to 80%. I slowly added things back in and finally got it to 91%. I didn't use the Fairy Tale Castle because that didn't seem to allow the points to get beyond 89! It is now stuck at 91% and nothing I add registers. But at least it's past 90.
Has anyone at level 38 or below upgraded to the new version of TapFish 1.04?
It says with the new version you get a free fishbuck at every level, but since I'm above level 40 where I get a fishbuck anytime I advance anyway, I was wondering if anyone has gotten a free fishbuck for leveling up after upgrading to the new version of the app?
I didn't get 40 free bucks for my previous level ups or anything, but it would be nice for the lower level people to get some free fishbucks as they level up!
I leveled up from 11 to 12 and received the fishbuck. That was nice and I was able to add it to the bucks I earned through downloading apps to buy the yellow longnose that I had somehow lost.
I'm having an issue today - this is the first time something hasn't worked properly for me in Tapfish. I bought my Tank 8 and added some fish to it. Then I bought a number of decorations, including the Fairy Tale Castle which is supposed to add 5 happiness points, and two coral reefs that add 3 each. I also moved some 1-point items from other tanks. When it reached 89% happiness, it wouldn't go any further, regardless of what I added. There were no hungry fish and I had expressed my love. I then tried moving things out one at a time and adding them to another tank. The other tanks would register the additional points, but Tank 8 seemed stuck at 89%. Then I moved everything out and it went down to 80%. I slowly added things back in and finally got it to 91%. I didn't use the Fairy Tale Castle because that didn't seem to allow the points to get beyond 89! It is now stuck at 91% and nothing I add registers. But at least it's past 90.
Anyone come across a glitch like this?
Not sure man...I know when I've decorated various tanks, there seems to be a limit of what certain plants or decorations can accrue...for example, if you add 20 Green Elestos, you aren't going to get +20 happiness...I usually mix it up to get above 90%...but for whatever reason some decorations don't compound
Treetank: Your tanks are nice..I also added you as a neighbor..For some reason i dont get my fish bucks after i download the apps. Ive downloaded several..Unforntally i had to buy some..Its now my 3rd time buying them..Watch its addictive..First i just got like 20.. then i got 4.99 worh.. And yesturday i got 9.99. I still more.. I took the advice on the green snappers.. i only got 2 tanks with them so far... I did wonder when i first started why alot of people just had a bunc of green snappers and the banded buttterflys in all there tanks..All of fyour alls post have been usefull.. I wish id fount this from the begining. Ive been playing it for a month now...I should be alot further than what I am..If you all want you can take a look...midnight25601
Not sure man...I know when I've decorated various tanks, there seems to be a limit of what certain plants or decorations can accrue...for example, if you add 20 Green Elestos, you aren't going to get +20 happiness...I usually mix it up to get above 90%...but for whatever reason some decorations don't compound
Thanks for the suggestion. Actually, on this particular tank I had very few duplicate decorations. But I had bought two (different) coral reefs and one castle and, while I'm not sure, it seemed to be the addition of these multi-point decorations that wouldn't let the points accumulate. When I moved the castle and one reef to another tank, I was able to get this one past 91% when I added one-pointers.
Treetank: Your tanks are nice..I also added you as a neighbor..For some reason i dont get my fish bucks after i download the apps. Ive downloaded several..Unforntally i had to buy some..Its now my 3rd time buying them..Watch its addictive..First i just got like 20.. then i got 4.99 worh.. And yesturday i got 9.99. I still more.. I took the advice on the green snappers.. i only got 2 tanks with them so far... I did wonder when i first started why alot of people just had a bunc of green snappers and the banded buttterflys in all there tanks..All of fyour alls post have been usefull.. I wish id fount this from the begining. Ive been playing it for a month now...I should be alot further than what I am..If you all want you can take a look...midnight25601
So far, I haven't had any trouble receiving fishbucks after downloading apps (knock on wood) and have earned more than 20 free bucks this way. I have the Droid X. I haven't downloaded any app I wanted to keep though!
I knew I wouldn't get what I wanted and would get sucked into spending more and more if I started out with just a few bucks, so I put down $20 for 240 bucks. I spent the first 40 bucks for the 3rd breeding tank then used the rest on the breedable fish with the highest offspring values. The $20 was worth it because while I don't have all the fish I would like, I have plenty of breedable combinations. However, while the developers deserve to make money from this app, I think that they charge much too much. I'm not sure what the minimum one would have to spend in order to get all the fish one wanted but the highest package of bucks costs $100 - which is way more than most people would want to spend on a phone app! The ads are very annoying too but again it costs too many bucks to turn them off.
This is a very well designed and addictive game though. I've been playing for 2-3 weeks and am now up to level 12, 9 tanks, and 3 breeding tanks. I wish I could buy some more breeding tanks, but at 40 bucks each, that's not possible. I also enjoy the ability to visit neighbors' tanks and see what fish people have bred and how they've decorated their tanks.
The banded butterflys are profitable but are such ugly fish! They look like a tankful of bugs so I never fill a tank with them but mix them up with other more attractive fish.
lol..well dont pay any attention to how mine is decorated...I once did have it looking pretty good.. I have a tank thats my 3 year olds..So from time to time when im not paying attention he grabs my phone and goes to town.. Ive lost thousands of coins that way to.. I threatened him the other day whne he did it.. 11 fish bucks and 42 thousand coins gone.. I told him i was saleing his fish..He started crying said mommy i love my fishies.. So I had to tell him i was sorry and not to get my phone and spend my money unless im there.. Im the one being a child over a game... well i will tell you im on level 22.. waiting on leveling up to 23..almost there.. anxiously waiting to see if i get a fish buck.. dont ask me how i moved up so quick..It wasnt nothing i did.. once again i let my lil one play with the fish.. I tought him how to clean others fishtanks and feed em.. Hes a big gamer to be so young.. well i got my phone and looked at it, and i went from like level 8 to level 20 and had 20 thousand more coins that what i shoulda...So he done something..just not so bad that time...oh by the way, i have you as a neighbor to..Tapros..ive had you as one for a while...I think i got it from the site...
Has anybody figured out what the interval is between being able to receive 25 coins and 2 xp just for visiting one's tank? And does anybody have a sore finger?
He sure did...You can borrow him..I will tell ya..He like to buy silly fish..I got it the other day and he had a bunch of lion fish on there. So let me ask.. What do you do exactally when you download the apps?? Im hoping im just doing it wrong...
Oh and another thing.. Im wanting the new Droid Charge... I was thinking last night..If I got a new phone are they anyway i can take my game with me..like storing it on my sd card??? Or will i have to start over..
He sure did...You can borrow him..I will tell ya..He like to buy silly fish..I got it the other day and he had a bunch of lion fish on there. So let me ask.. What do you do exactally when you download the apps?? Im hoping im just doing it wrong...
While in Tapfish, I click on the Earn Free Fishbucks and select the app, then choose Market to download the app. Then I open the app and play with it enough for it to recognize that I am running it. I then exit the app and go immediately to Tapfish. If I'm still in Tapfish, I exit it then go back in. Then it tells me I have received my fishbucks. I hope you can figure out what if anything you did wrong and that it's not just a bug. The developers are not very responsive, I know.
I mainly downloaded the apps that only appear for a limited aount of time, including Ninja Jump, Pet Beauty Parlor (or something like that) and some others. I also initially did the Facebook fan thing. I haven't downloaded Skout or Word with Friends.
Yesterday there was an offer for 9 fishbucks if you answer 50 questions. I thought I'd give it a try. I assumed it was for some marketing research. It started asking some innocuous questions such as age range and so on, then told me some questions would be repeated and I wouldn't get credit if I don't answer the same way each time. After answering about 5 questions, it told me I have 50 questions left to answer. Then it asked a really personal question and there was no way to avoid answering it, so I just canceled it.
I love Tap Fish, and had it both on my Android and my iPad.
The iPad version had better fish and they were cheaper, too. By "better" I mean they had a breedable manta ray that made the most interesting-looking rays when you bred it. And they had breedable special holiday fish that were ridiculous-looking, but you could sell them for a tremendous amount of coins. And new tanks were only 1000 coins, instead of 4000 on the Android version.
They took it off iTunes (said Apple cracked down on apps that let you download other apps for "currency," although lots of others are still on there.) So I switched to Tap Reef on the iPad. It is more realistic, but I like Tap Fish better. In Tap Reef, if you breed a Clown Fish and a different fish, you get either a clown fish or whatever the other fish was; in Tap Fish, you get something weird and neat.
And another thank you for explaining all those tanks with 50 green snappers! I was starting to wonder about people
So I've managed to save up 30 fishbucks and want to buy some breedable fish. Which ones do you guys think I should get? I vant decide with such limited funds lol I was thinking yellow longnose and blowfish and then saving up for some others like a guppy... or maybe the rainbow notho and something else... im just indecisive, what do you guys think?
So I've managed to save up 30 fishbucks and want to buy some breedable fish. Which ones do you guys think I should get? I vant decide with such limited funds lol I was thinking yellow longnose and blowfish and then saving up for some others like a guppy... or maybe the rainbow notho and something else... im just indecisive, what do you guys think?
The Betta for 24 coins and the Glow Fish for 32 are pretty and breed the highest priced babies for the bucks, unless you want to save up for the Sailfin Tang, which costs 48. To see what all fish and their offspring look like visit enseitankado.
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I just added enseitankado as a neighbor, wow he/she has a ton of neat fish! Must've either spent lots of cash, or done a little file editing
I have a tank right now called Clownin thats all 22 of the Clownfish Breeds...and yes, I spent some fishbucks to speed up breeding to get them all in a short time
Also whoever CookieMonstr is, they added me and they have over 60 tanks! Many are for breeding green snapper but they have not only some need hybrids and other fish, but some really cool tanks. I like their Cinco de Mayo tank!
Two questions about TapFish
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