Recently fooled around with the Tap Fish app on my iPhone. Found it kind of fun and great for wasting time on the bus. Basically you have a tank and some coins to start. You buy some eggs with the coins, put them in the tank, and watch them hatch and swim their sweet freedom.
The ingame market revolves around coins and fishbucks. Coins are earned by doing things or selling fish. Fishbucks are purchased through the app and iTunes, or earned free through promotions or offers. I ignored these fishbuck things, money goes towards the real fish.
Now, you can feed them, love them, raise them, sell them for more coins, or ignore them, and watch them eventually float around the tank solemnly. This can be avoided by feeding them once every 25 hours.
The concept is basic farming of fish from here to gain exp and coins to purchase decorations, backgrounds, different species of fish and marine life, more tanks, and then there is also breeding.
Breeding involves two species of fish that are marked as breedable, your ingame breeding tank (more can be purchased for coins or fishbucks). By selecting two different species, you can breed them together to create a hybrid. Fans have made various guides on Facebook, here is another example. Even something about a Tap Fish App world record.
Tips to Start:
- Begin with Green Snapper
- Fill the tank one egg at a time and feed it. Doubles your exp.
- Wait 4 hours or so, then sell the Green Snappers. You can sell them all at once from the menu (at 15% loss), or individually.
- Save up to 1200 coins or so for a second tank. Use this second tank to keep your breeders separate from the farming tanks.
- Continue with Green Snappers or Yellow Snappers.
- Save up for a new background (or get a 4 fishbucks one with the free starter fishbucks), 10 Starfish, and 10 plants. With these you earn about 100% Happiness for your fish, thus giving a selling bonus.
- To make coins quicker, use your decked out tank to sell your fish for the bonus. Using the inventory to swap in your fish from any other farming tanks. This allows you to not have to spend coins on every single tank.
Starter Fish:
- Green Snapper (4hrs): 50 adults = cost of 500 = profit of 250
- Yellow Snapper (6hrs): 50 adults = cost of 600 = profit of 350
- Red Longtail (12hrs): 50 adults = cost of 750 = profit of 500
- Asia Arowana (24hrs): 50 adults = cost of 1800 = profit of 1200
Exotic Fish:
- Goldfish (9hrs): 50 adults = cost of 700 = profit of 600
- Long Banner Fish (24hrs): 50 adults = cost of 5250 = profit of 1250
- Chromis (24hrs): 50 adults = cost of 8750 = profit of 5750
- Golden Dwarf (24hrs): 50 adults = cost of 14000 = profit of 11900
Tips for Earners (if you really spend that much time on it):
- Electric eels sell for the highest profit of 6,750,000 coins. Then Sharks and Killer Whales.
- Takes 40 tanks of Golden Dwarfs to earn 1 million coins
And I’m spent.
