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Feeding Time

Feed the fish, grab the coins

Guppies eat, grow and drop coins. Coins buy more guppies, better food and three egg pieces that clear the tank. Every couple of minutes something comes through a portal and starts eating, and you can't feed anyone until it's dead.

Filling the tank...

How to play

Tap the water to drop a pellet ($5). Hungry fish swim to it. A fish that goes too long without food turns sickly, stops paying, and dies.

Tap coins before they sit on the sand too long and vanish. Medium guppies drop silver ($15), large ones gold ($35). Feed a large guppy the best food long enough and it earns a crown and drops gems.

The shop runs along the top (down the side in landscape). Better food grows fish faster; more food lets more pellets in the water at once. Buy all three egg pieces to clear the tank and hatch a pet. On a keyboard, 1-8 buy, P pauses, M mutes.

Aliens come with a siren and a portal. Tap them to shoot; every hit knocks them back. While one is in the tank you can't feed. Each new tank brings something new:

  • Lurker Eats fish. Tap it to shoot it.
  • Glutton Shots bounce off. Feed it until it bursts.
  • Brute Fast, tough, barely stops to chew.
  • Mirror Glows every few seconds. Shots heal it while it glows.

Pets are helpers you take into a tank: one from each egg, three more for doing something well.

  • Morris Crawls the floor picking up coins. (unlock: Clear Shallows)
  • Hattie Grows a $250 pearl every 30 seconds. Tap it. (unlock: Clear Weed bed)
  • Kit Rams aliens, hard. (unlock: Clear Drop-off)
  • Gertie Drops free food for hungry fish. (unlock: Clear Kelp forest)
  • Mabel Has a baby guppy every 30 seconds. (unlock: Clear Trench)
  • Lena Saves a starving fish, once every 45 seconds. (unlock: Clear any tank after Shallows without losing a fish)
  • Wren Catches coins as they sink past. (unlock: Clear a tank inside its par time)
  • Otto Fish get hungry 30% slower. (unlock: Defeat 10 aliens)

Tanks: Shallows, Weed bed, Drop-off, Kelp forest, Trench, then an open tank with no goal. Progress stays in this browser.

A love letter to Insaniquarium (Flying Bear / PopCap). The mechanics are borrowed with affection; the name, art, creatures and sounds here are all new.

$ cd .. → more interactives