Hey Everyone,

I've played the game once, created spreadsheet for fin and body types. Now playing it a second time and it is almost as mindboggeling as the first time, inspite of knowing what the magic fish are and my speadsheets. Looking at the spreadsheet I still end up with dead ends. So those of you who have played this game many times, what strategy to you find works the best? (that is after you've earned enough money and done environment research etc.)

Thanks,
Janet

I cross my fingers and hope one of the babies grows into a magic fish. I understand not everyone sees this as a strategy, but it works for me ^_^

I agree with the person above. I had to restart my game 3 times due to issues with my Palm. I was far along all those times and everytime I started over, I would hope that one of my breeds would be a magic fish!

Some of the magic fish I got the other times came from different parents. There are so many combinations.

I finally got all 7 fish but I am still playing to try to get all 500 species. It is hard....just as challenging as finding the magic fish.

I was a haphazard breeder. I didn't use charts or anything. I only used "strategy" on a couple magic fish.

Janet, my original strategy was apparently trying NOT to find the magic fish. The idea of finding the magic fish seemed too daunting, so I just wanted to match the fins to their appropriate bodies to end up with a nice tank full of pretty fish. Seemed simple enough.

But that's how I ended up with a few of them. In fact, I was a teeny bit disappointed when they turned out to be magic fish, because all those trailing sparkles were messin' up my serene little aquariums!

Turned out that the pursuit of matching fins to bodies was almost as difficult, as some of the fins seem to work for sevral bodies!

But over all, keeping track of what crossed with what produces what (via spreadsheet) was the only way to progress, no matter what direction I was going or what my goal was.

My strategy was to look for new kinds of fish, they are really beautifull, and by mistake found magic fish, 7, then 6 then 4 then 3 then 5. I have found 235 differente kind of fishes

That's a lot of fish! I only found 158. Once I had all of the obvious fin/body matches I could get, and several "close enough" matches, I gave up and went back to Plant Tycoon, which I had abandoned once I had started Fish Tycoon. I never did stumble onto magic fish #4 and #5.

But I knew it was time to give it a rest when I realized that I had lost my focus and didn't have room for one more fish. I had 3 completely full tanks...one tank devoted entirely to just sharks with various fin colors (my favorite is the Fanned Shark), a "X-Mas Beta" (green beta with crimson fins, lol!), and various other mismatched fish that I just couldn't part with no matter how goofy they looked.

I've played this game for some time now and never found all the fish. I use a random breeding method though. Sometimes it's fun just to start all over and do it again. I like the beginning more than worrying about getting all 7 fish, guess that's crazy huh?

I was a random breeder too, and got all 7.

For #2 I did use some strategy. There is a cheat sheet somewhere out on the internet that shows what all 7 fish look like ( I did a google search). Based on what #2 looked like, I was able to get it. But it still took me a while even though I saw the end result.

Someone has posted another kind of cheat sheet that will show you what happens when you breed certain fish together.
You can scan the message board for that.

my strategy is jus to keeping breeding fish and jus keep trying. this is wat i do: 1st, finda kind of fish that is not very eazy to die n sells for like $30,$40. keep breeding them (and selling!) and keep researching and buy all the things u think u might need. once u think u can start finding mage fish,u start buying eggs n breed a lot. although i still newb n only found 12 species, i earn quite a lot of money but sooner or later u'll start getting the idea. Good luck to all playing LDW games!!!

oh yeah, anyway this are my stats, i noe u may say 'thats a very long time already!' and all those kind of things, but i decided to play it for a long long time b4 i get those mage fish.
Hours played:126
Trashed:9
Cured:6
Species found:12
money earned:???
money spent:???
umm...my annoying sister took it away so i think i ll post it next time. See u guys later!