This is the second time I have started---Bought the good food and everything seemed to be going fine--- got the magic fertility fish--bred some --had some young ones --all of the sudden the fish were all dead--can you over feed the fish--- I do not know what happened--Please help!!!

There are a number of things that can cause dead fish. Yes, you can overfeed them. If you feed them before they are hungry (about halfway down on their "Fed" meter), they will lose health each time you feed them.

Fish can also lose health and die if they are too fragile to survive in the level of Fish Environment that you currently have. Only the common fish (the ones that you can hatch from common eggs) can remain completely healthy in a Level 1 Fish Environment. The very fragile hybrids will usually not live to adulthood. Vitamins will temporarily improve their health, but only the proper Fish Environment will solve the problem.

Of course, sick fish will die if you don't cure them!

Finally, if you're playing more than one player and are changing the game speed at the same time that you're switching between players, you can have some unexpected results. Anytime you change players, you should always click play immediately. Then, if you want, you can return to the menu and change the game speed.

If none of those things explains what's happening in your tanks, maybe you could provide more details about the fish that are dying.

Hey Barbara, et al

Some of my fish have yellow fed status, and some have full green. If I feed them all, do I risk having the green ones get overfed?

Question 2: If I feed tank 1, am I also feeding tank 2? Or is it separate? I hardly ever have to feed the fish, so it's hard to tell which ones I'm feeding.

TIA
cheezfri

Yes, all fish in the tank will be fed at once when you drop the food into the water. If any fish in the tank aren't "hungry" they will lose a small amount of health from overfeeding, but it's usually not a problem if they aren't already losing health from sickness or inadequate Fish Environment. If they're otherwise healthy, they will quickly recover from the overfeeding.

Each tank is completely separate from the other tanks when it comes to food and chemicals. Food dropped into a tank only feeds the fish in that tank, so if you have fish that you don't want to feed (or subject to the chemicals) you can move them to a different tank before dumping stuff into the water!

when i sell my fish i over feed the sale tank cuz then there hybrids and they sell better