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Two questions about TapFish

CorkyBuchek said:
I just decorate all my tanks. I use the tiered elestos for 11% (you can only get 11% happiness from plants and 11% from non-plants) since they are easier to get at than the cheap decorations and then thrown in one starfish. It only takes 765 coins to get to 88% happiness and the Love bonus will make you hit 90%. It's a lot easier than moving decorations or fish to get the bonus, and you can make it back in a hurry. You can sell a tank of Banded Butterflies for 9,500 but if you spend the 765 for decorations, you will make 11,400. That offsets the cost of decorations on your first time through. It's well worth the coins to save the time it takes to move stuff around.
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I didn't know about the 11% limit until now! How did you find that out? I guess that's why I couldn't get past 89% and then 91% on a couple of my tanks - I thought that it was the 5-point castle I had placed that was causing a weird glitch. I guess I had reached the 11% limit on non-plant decorations and was continuing to try to add more.

Right now I can well afford the decorations (the ones I can buy with coins, that is) - it's just that I'd like some of my tanks to be more decorated but it's such a pain to buy each one one at a time. I am fascinated by the tanks that have zillions of decorations all arranged in various patterns - that takes a lot of time and patience!

Some of the tanks I use for keepers I don't bother to decorate at all since I don't need the happiness points.
 
If you have plenty of coins or fishbucks and want to level up faster, you might consider buying a food brick for your xp tank of green snappers (or whichever fish you use). When you buy your fish, each purchase is 1 xp, plus another xp if you feed it individually. If you are buying in bulk, it's too difficult to feed each one. But with a food brick, you can more easily feed them one at a time. Before you start buying, move your brick to where it's accessible to your left index finger. Select your fish and tap "Buy". Tap near the brick with your left finger - the fish will appear and move quickly to eat from the brick. When the fish is full message comes up, tap okay with your right finger and immediately buy the next fish with your left. This way, each purchase is worth 2xp instead of 1.

It's still slow, but a lot faster than trying to feed each fish without a brick. Unfortunately, the bricks cost a lot of coins or bucks and they're ugly. You can't hide the brick or move it between tanks, either.
 
Thanks Droid, I never thought about the food brick idea that way. I might do that later on and try it. What's your name on the game? Mine is the one I use here. I get the max bonus but I sell in bulk also so I get 765 for greens and 9600 or so for butters. Just to impatient to sell one at a time. Hehe
 
Witches, I'm TapRos and you are already on my friends list.
I sell the cheap fish in bulk but not the high priced ones because you lose too many coins in commission. For example, a tank full of tie fish sells for 46500 coins if my math is correct. 15% commission would be 6975!
 
droidros said:
This is probably a dumb question, but I don't suppose there are any shortcuts to puchasing multiple decorations, are there? I see some people have highly decorated tanks. I tend to keep mine to a minimum (91 - 93% for selling tanks and far less for non-seling) because it's such a pain to buy stuff. To purchase and place one simple clam, for example, you have to tap:

Menu - Store - decorations - tank basics - scroll to clam and tap buy - tap and drag to move, etc.
That's a minimum of 6 taps for each clam. If you don't know what you want, it takes a lot more tapping and scrolling to shop around.
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Do tell about the decorated tanks. I love decorating my tanks and look for ideas!

I'm a female BTW.
 
I tried to resist....but the Mario swimming just kept going through my head....it may take awhile to make but I will have my Mario bros tanks. Lol
 
Is there a level requirement for the Royal Gramma? If not, that's the new best profit fish without a level requirement. 8666 per day! I'm glad I have a ton of fish to sell! :)
 
I tried to fill a tank with the Royal Gramma and only could afford 29! So I put 21 powder blue tangs in with them (also 3 days)
 
I just stocked up on memorial. Gramma just look sweet so I bought one. Also, I'm only level 10 ten tanks all with butters (best profit at 100% per day). But my question is, I have a showy tank and I started getting an error message about minimum 25 kinds of fish...in a tank with 27 different fish...

Also add AntarRSB
 
Just added you, I am TreeTank

Not sure about the max # of fish, I know you can have a total of 50 fish in a tank, but only 25 different types of fish

But I've also heard of some errors and glitches after the v1.1 update on certain phones but not others. That could be it.
 
There are a ton of errors since patch so take precautions. Report them as you find them also, helps others. I know there are more problems with iPhone than Droid ATM....not surprised. Added you ad well. Got abut half the Mario tank done. Still experimenting, but there are a very limited amount of decorations. Hopefully they will add more soon.
 
Witches said:
I tried to resist....but the Mario swimming just kept going through my head....it may take awhile to make but I will have my Mario bros tanks. Lol
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Love your MarioBros tank. You really have a lot of patience placing all those decorations. I bought a couple of pipes once and spent ages trying to line them up! -TapRos
 
Witches said:
I am farming the dwarfs ATM. Anyone have any advice on what fish is next?
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Enough dwarfs! :pIt's time to start putting some decent looking fish in your Mario tank. Chromis, clowns, yellow tang.. Even a bunniefishie...pity you didn't get any tie fish.
 
Bunny Fish would be funny in there =)


I wasn't aware that you could have only 25 different kinds of fish per tank :/

Now I have ro root--I don't think I have enough space for another tank.

(The entire program will not go to sd, only a large part of it. Not sure how much remains on the phone, but it is definitely the game eating space, since that is the only app that has had anything changed in it for a week.)
 
Lol, I could careless about silly fish. Now that gold foil an blue one has merit. Like the stripped long black and white too.
 
Ill use the lower tanks that are decorated as show tanks when I break a million in profits. I want to be prepared for lvl 30 when I get there. I promise ill will have it all fixed shortly after that. And I enjoy the Rare smooth fish over the funny ones. Really want that new frog the buck shortage is driving me nuts and I refuse to spend real cash on a app.
 
raynoldsk said:
Bunny Fish would be funny in there =)


I wasn't aware that you could have only 25 different kinds of fish per tank :/

Now I have ro root--I don't think I have enough space for another tank.

(The entire program will not go to sd, only a large part of it. Not sure how much remains on the phone, but it is definitely the game eating space, since that is the only app that has had anything changed in it for a week.)
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You can hit your menu button, go to Settings and go to Applications and scroll down to Tapfish to see how much space is used. Mine is about 45 megabytes, including the program and the data. Thats bigger than some other apps, but its not absurdly big. My phone memory is 8 gigabytes, which is about 175x the space of my Tapfish program+data. And my SD card is another 8 gigabytes.

Things like videos you take with your camera are going to be a lot more "space hoggers" than Tapfish data. And I have 26 tanks to your 5 so I'd imagine your app is more like 15-20 megabytes.
 
I have a 16g sd card, but the phone memory is absurdly low--especially when so much of apps will not move from internal storage--what are they thinking.

Rooted now. Just waiting for the computer to copy the files back onto the sd card...which, for some odd reason is taking forever.

Then I will buy more tanks:D
 
Hi all, just started playing Tapfish a couple of days ago, and this has been such a useful thread, now busy raising green snappers for XP. I'm a bit confused about the length of time the fish take to grow - it says 4 hours for green snappers, but I set a bunch of them going at 3pm yesterday and at 10pm they still had an hour to go. I checked on them a couple of times before then, assuming they'd be finished after 4 hours. Is the time thing hit and miss or am I missing some step?
 
Welcome Blue!

I don't track the time really closely but I haven't noticed any discrepancies. Did you buy the whole tank at the same time? (could it be that you added some fish later than you thought?)- TapRos
 
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