I've been playing with fish since my birthday the beginning of the month, and am totally obsessed by it.

I've found the seven magic's and over 280 varsities in my first game, before finding this board. It's nice finding other folks obsessed with the game! (I have a hard time remembering it's a game! I love these little fishies!)

I've started about five games now, and developed a sure fire way to get a game going quickly, and now I'm working on finding the rest of the fish.

I've noticed there are, what I call, three "True Type" fish and three "True Type" fins ... from which all other fish can quickly be formulated. I have formulas for all the fish, using at most four generations to achieve whatever one I want.

I have 'fin formulas' and 'body formulas', and when they are combined any fish can be created. After establishing a tank with all research complete, I can grow the magics in four generations IF I have all nice "True Type Fish"... that being a beta, shark and spotanus, each with three fin types ... greenfin, twinfin and silky. With those nine fish the tank world is MINE!!!!!!!!!

The tricky part is setting up the tank with all research, while at the same time buying enough eggs to find the nine "True Types". Once that is achieved the rest is just time and patience.

I'm thinking of putting up a webpage for the game, with pictures of various tank setups, and I'm wondering if links are allowed on the board. It wouldn't have to be a clickable link... just the cut and paste type.

I'm devoting WAAYYYYYYYYYYY too much time to this 'game' .... but being a computer geek from way back, I just have to say that this is the neatest game I've ever played!

Right now I am in the process of raising pure strains of each type of fish, inbreeding all the fin types into that one type of fish. ie ... fruitfish in all fin variations. Lots of breeding and lots of time, but lots of fun and pretty little fishies! I want to capture screen shots of each fish type in it's fin varieties and put them on a webpage. Would this interest anyone besides me?