Can anyone tell me how much of in impact does buying the various ornaments have on the game. Also what does the sea horse do. It doesn't seem to do much apart from take up additional space in the tank, as you lose a place that a REAL fish could use. If it doesn't do anything I can't see the point in getting it... for the above reason. Any suggestions?

Uhh... I'm pretty sure the seahorse takes up no space. There has been a very good discussion about what people think seahorse does, try searching for them. And buying ornaments increase the beauty of your tanks, as well as the number of customers.

EDIT: LadyCFII corrected me about the seahorse taking up space, read her post below.

The seahorse does take up the space of one fish, but the task of figuring out exactly what it does rests with the player. I'll never tell.

Hmmm OK then, thanks for that Barbara lol I'd better start doing a bit of research. Psst if any one knows you could alays PM me maybe "big Sister" won't notice

and you kasey too.

Nobody that I know of (at least here on our forums) has figured it out yet.

Hmmm A challenge, I like that lol. I'll get back to you when I've found out, ........ Don't wait up, I think I maybe quite some time.

You might be...

grrr, can we hypnotize LadyCFII?? i want to know

*sinister laugh* wahhahahaha

Here, take this hypnotizing ray! ha...ha...ha......ha...ha...ha......ha...ha...ha. lol

Check this out!

ladycfii, you are getting sleepy , very very sleepy !
you will tell robert everything about the seahorse !
lolololo

No I won't! Nothing can make me tell!

What I want to know is do YOU really know LCF? LOL

Yes, I've seen the source code.

*puppy dog eyes*

PLEASE??

I reckon it gives you something you'll almost certainly already have. If, say, it allows L3 fish to live in a L2 environment, you probably have L3 already as without it you wouldn't be able to afford the price of the seahorse.

thats what i thought

Keep trying to hypnotize her! *points hypnotizing ray at LadyCFII*

You might actually be right as that seems to be a logical conclusion...but that still won't stop some of us from trying to hypnotize LadyCFII so she'll tell us the secret.

I know if the ornaments are in the tank, you have more visitors at your shop.

, LadyCFII knows EVERYTHING

(whisper)

*psst, LadyCFII, please say *

*Puppy dog eyes*

*Kneels*

please

Pretty please with a cherry on top?
*more puppy dog eyes*

it is like how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop. the world will never know.

"Mister Turtle, how many licks does it take to get to the tootsie rool center of a tootsie pop?"
"I never made it without biting. Ask Mister Owl."
"Mister Owl, how many licks does it take to get to the tootsie rool center of a tootsie pop?"
"Let's find out. One, a-ta-hoo, tha-ree *CRUNCH!* Tha-ree."

"How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop? The world may never know."

guys! jeez! if you wanna klnow, PM me, cause I do(yay! i figured it out!)

I think you should post and let our Lady decide Go on you know you wanna

layol,

Oh yeah?

Don't keep it to yourself. Why not have the courage of your convictions and post it in the open forum?

yeah PLEASE post it

Are the effects at least good enough to outweigh the disadvantages?

Reading this thread makes me want to go back and start a new game of FT. Of course, it will take me forever to be able to afford that seahorse since I'll have to start from scratch!

At least it will pass the time while waiting for VV3 to come out, but once it's out I'll have to remember to pause my fishies so they won't die of starvation!

If someone figures out what it does, please post here so I won't be working my few brain cells to figure it out.

Don't hold your breath! No-one in the forums has figured it out in the time since FT first came out so don't expect an answer soon.

We could try...I bet its because no one ever tried hard enough..
LadyCFII, do I have permission to hack FT so I can find out what it does? (pretty please with a cherry on top)

You obviously haven't read the forum rules, or you wouldn't ask for permission to hack FT.

Oops...I'm so sorry...I promise I won't hack it and just sell fish until I get enoguh money...

I don't think the seahorse does anything worthwhile.

Got so fed up with it using up one of my fish places for no apparent advantage that I got rid of it!

Haven't noticed anything different about the game:

Fish breed, age, sell, get sick, get cured, are just as hungry as they were before. I have found all of the fish without ever purchasing the seahorse too.

Perhaps it's more of an advantage at the beginning of the game (someone suggested L3 fish surviving in a L2 environment) and perhaps the reason that you are able to bin it is because when you have researched the top levels you no longer need it?

I have a couple of spare user slots so will play identical games, one with and one without a seahorse. Watch this space...

I've been playing 2 identical games simultaneously. One with the seahorse and one without. I haven't researched any upgrades for either game.

I haven't found any differences between the two, though

1. Delicate fish deterioate at the same rate, regardless of whether the seahorse is in the tank or not.
2. I've made fish sick by overfeeding. Both games take exactly the same amount of food before the fish get sick.
3. Fish do not heal quicker because of the seahorse.
4. Fish do not sell quicker if the seahorse is in the selling tank.
5. Fish do not sell for more money if the seahorse is in the tank.
6. Fish do not grow faster nor have more babies if the seahorse is present.


I'm flumuxed. I don't believe there is an advantage to owning the seahorse. Other than it looks quite pretty in the tank.

So, LDW, if there is an advantage then please put us all out of our misery!

Please somebody tell us. Please? I want to know if it is worth the money of the sea horse.

OKAY everyone after being gone for like a YEAR I have realized THAAAAAT.... I was wrong. XD IM SO ASHAMED T-T

The ornaments are to bring more shoppers in your store, it says that in the beggining

I thought some fish had the babys quicker. The seahorse was there every time I think. That is all I came up with.

I never play with the seahorse in my tank. Some of the fish species do reproduce quicker than others. Stickfish and fatfish are quite slow, but fruitfish and goldbulbs are faster and more likely to respond to the use of the growth hormone.

The seahorse does have a significant purpose in the game. I found out what it was by accident. Not sure if I should spoil all the fun of figuring it out by posting what it is!

You could post it in one of these Happy blue bird:

[spoiler][/spoiler]

OK! Twist my arm!!!

Are you quite sure about this?

Please see my image below. I managed to kill 3 of my fish off by overfeeding, even though the seahorse (bottom left) was in the tank the entire time.

Well...I have never lost a fish to over feeding. However, I have a game going that had 2 full tanks. Life got in the way and I kinda forgot about it and about three months later I opened the game and the tank without the seahorse was full of deceased fish while the tank with the seahorse were all still alive although a few had ick and fungus and all were hungry.

I'll experiment with this then.

Watch this space...

I will be interested to see how it works for you.

Well....here are my results.

I used two tanks. One with a seahorse, one without. No upgrades were researched. The tanks contained similar species of fish. Both tanks were full. (20 fish with seahorse, 21 without the seahorse).

I starved my fish in both my seahorse and non-seahorse tanks.

Firstly, I've noticed that when the 'Fed' bar is empty the fish don't die. It makes no difference if there is a seahorse in the tank or not, they still don't die.
When fish are starving then their health deterioates. This happened at an equal rate between the two tanks. Evenutally, when the health bar became empty the fish died.

The number of fish that caught an Ick or Fungal disease were evenly distributed between the two tanks.

Finally, the fish died at an equal rate.

I conlude that the fish in the tank that contained the seahorse were neither healthier nor lived longer than those in the tank without the seahorse.

happybluebird - I know you experienced a different situation in your game. I think that it was a coincidence that the fish with the seahorse survived and the fish without the seahorse didn't. The fish can survive for several human days without food (I played on 2x normal speed).

If none of the fish become ill then you would expect the fish to live for a considerable amount of time. Only if one or more fish catch a disease will they die more quickly. Once one fish has a disease, the others are more prone to catch it too.

If both of your tanks were full then you'd have had 20 fish in the seahorse tank and 21 fish in the tank without the seahorse. The fish without the seahorse were 5% more likely to catch a disease than the ones with the seahorse. This has nothing to do with the seahorse, but merely that there would be 5% more fish in the tank without the seahorse.

Another factor that may have affected your outcome could have been the stage in which you abandoned the game. If the fish in the tank without the seahorse had been left for longer - i.e. you exited the game having last fed the fish in the tank containing the seahorse then you would expect these fish to be in better health than those in the other tank(s).

Having said all of this, I'm still at a loss as to what the seahorse actually does.

I don't know why your results were different. I still have not fed mine. It has been about three months. They are still alive. When you last posted about your trial, I checked on mine. There were several that were diseased and all had empty feed bars. I closed the game without doing anything to them. When I opened it today, the ones that were diseased are still diseased and the feed bars were still empty. As I said, I had all three tanks full of fish. The only ones that survived were all the fish in the seahorse tank. Sorry it didn't work for you, But I wish I had one of each magic fish in that tank!!!

What game speed are you playing on and have you bought any upgrades for your tank?

I am playing on 2x the speed and I have all the research. Kind of weird!

I've just tried 3 attempts (on level 2 environment) of 2x, 1x and 1/2x speeds and all my fish have died in the tank with the seahorse.

I'll try upgrading all the research and see if that makes any difference.

Have you purchased any of the magic plants?

Oh and also, have you any magic fish in the tank with the seahorse, and if so, which ones?

I have all the upgrades, and plants and sea horse. The fish are still getting sick even with the plants and the magic fish of curing. They are still getting hurngry with the magic fish of substance. I havent any idea what the sea horse is for and I would like to know. Also what is the special chemical suppose to do, I have used it twice and nothing has happemed. Does any one have any ideas what the sea horse and magic chemicals are for? Thank you

The magic chemical changes the species of one or more of your fish. The changes are quite subtle sometimes - either the body or fins of just one fish are changed. Other times, many of your fish change. I have used it and not seen any of the fish change species but this does not happen often.

I found that the fish needed feeding less often with the magic fish of substance and the magic plants. The magic fish of curing doesn't prevent your fish from becoming sick, rather that it is quicker to cure them if this fish is in the tank. The magic fish of health is supposed to prevent the fish from becoming sick but I've never found it to make much difference. I have discovered that when you have all of the magic plants, fish can be starved and they still don't die. The fish only die if they become sick and even then you have to wait until their health bar diminishes fully.

I have no idea what the seahorse does either. Someone posted that it kept their fish alive, even if they did not feed the fish. By comparison, they said that all their fish in the tanks without the seahorse had died. But I have not found this to be true. Both the seahorse and non seahorse tanks of fish deterioate and die at the same rate. Have been testing this out and so far have not found that the fish become less sick or live longer etc., because of the seahorse.

I am beginning to wonder if LDW forgot to add the magic qualities of this item when they were programming the game!

The seahorse is programmed into the game, and it works. (And the magic fish is called the Magic Fish of Sustenance - not substance.)

Perhaps you'd like to enlighten me, then. I have been studying the seahorse and it's supposed magic qualities for a several months now and it does not make a positive difference to my game at all.

Noooo... is that the end of the thread??? I was sure all would be revealed by the end!!! Grrrr!!!!

People have been asking this question in the forum pretty well since the release of FT and I've never seen a definitive answer. Barbara insists that it does have an effect, but won't say more, despite various threats and promises.

I bought the seahorse, and accidentally deleted it having grabbed the wrong fish. Is there a way to get it back? I have enough money, but it won't allow me to purchase it again, saying it is already in my inventory. I have a feeling in order to get it again I will have to reset the game, is it worth resetting to get the seahorse?

You might want to try the seahorse restocker that's available in this post, but remember to heed the warnings there (especially about backing up your savegame files). We don't provide support for fan-written utilities, so you would be using at your own risk, though.

Darn, I am using the iPod touch version of the game, so I can't use that. Guess I'm out of options?

Unfortunately, there isn't a way to restore a lost seahorse within the game, and non-Windows users can't use the restocker. I wouldn't have proposed the use of the restocker if I had known you were playing the iPhone version. To avoid confusion, we have a separate section of the forums for iPhone games, since there are enough differences in the platforms to warrant a separate discussion area.

I know what the seahorse does... PM me if you really want to know.

Why not share it with everyone on here?

Or is the answer 'nothing'

Here are my theories about the golden seahorse which boggles our minds(unless you work for ldw)It:
1.does absolutely, positively nothing
2.cures disease
3.feeds fish
4.raises the dead if you leave a dead fish in long enough
5.ages baby fish quicker
6.attracts customers/ makes customers more likely to buy expensive fish
7.kills fish when you aren't looking
8.makes us all write forums about it
I want an answer!

kills fish when you arent looking.......
made me giggle for ages lol

Hehe I don't think it kills the fish. Maybe though who knows? I'd go with numbers 1, and 8! Also, drives the possessor absolutely insane trying to figure it out should be on that list lol.

The seahorse doesn't seem to age

maybe it makes the fish more expensive? so u get more money when u sell them?

seems to me my sea horse makes my baby fish grow faster.....i could be wrong though maybe ive just got used to the time it takes lol

Does it affect the fish at all? Maybe it feeds them, don't say I won't tell, just say no or yes

If you have certain fish they'll grow faster.

Is it still a secret?

Yes :|
I tried asking through support tickets a while ago what the seahorse did (twice), not a peep xD
Lol now I'm curious!

It's still a secret

I bet it doesn't have an effect at all and it just looks cute in your tank, like an ornament. I'm going to test the theories in this thread soon (still have my game! ).
1st theory:
2nd theory:
Oh btw, before I became a member on these forums I read this thread LITERALLY EVERY YEAR hoping for the answer to be revealed...
And even if the answer is forever a secret, so long as somebody knows the answer, I'm ok with me not knowing

Wow! This topic has come back to life again (or is that again and again and again?)! Since it's been so long since I popped into this thread, it might help if I comment again for the benefit of people who are newer to the forums.

Sorry to disappoint everyone, but Heather is right; it's a secret! Arthur has always wanted to keep the magical powers of the seahorse a mystery, but he also said that if anyone figured out what it does during their game play, we would confirm it.

I worked on every version of Fish Tycoon (desktop and mobile), and I can assure you that the seahorse does have a positive effect in the game. I could point to the exact location in the code where the effect is programmed. However, as borne out by the fact that nobody here has yet discovered the secret, the effect is not glaringly obvious, especially later in the game when there are a lot of other "magical things" working together.

That's all I'll say, since, well, it's a secret!

I guess this means we need to compare two games, one with seahorse and one without it. aaand it needs to be without Magic fishes and plants to make it clearer? I finished PT several times before but i don't remember finishing FT at all. so i may try it again and maybe solve the mystery?

I also want to point it out for everyone that Fish Tycoon for PC is totally free, so you may also try it immediately http://lastdayofwork.com/fish_tycoon.php

So after all these years, we STILL haven't figured it out? That's so funny.

In FT2, description of Golden Seahorse says;
"This magical Creature increases your odds of selling fish!"
I wonder if same applies for first FT

"How does the seahorse work?

Once a long held mystical secret from the land of Isola, we have discovered the golden seahorse's fantastic power in Fish Tycoon 2. Owning the seahorse increases the likelihood of a customer purchasing a fish. The seahorse does not take up tank space."

Taken from the Research and Upgrades page of Last Day of Work's Fish Tycoon 2. Sounds legit. Sounds even more plausible when you take into account that Tanks 1 and 2 hold 20 fish but the Sell tank holds 21. Since we know that the Seahorse takes up 1 space, it makes sense. Almost like the developers were dropping us hints that the Seahorse works its magic in the Sell tank.

I've been playing Fish Tycoon for about 5 days now and added the Seahorse to Tank 1. Yesterday I began to notice some of the baby fish were born at age 2 days vs the usual 1 day. Since I've only noticed this in the 1st tank, is it safe to say the Seahorse ages some babies by 1 day? Also have Magic fish 1, 4, 3, 7, 2, in that order.
By curious nature, I'm wondering why the Seahorse ages if it has no purpose in breeding and apparently doesn't die, or can it die?

I found that when putting the seahorse in your selling tank and tapping on the customers to see their reactions in sell mode 1 out of 5 people or so show a heart with a fish in their thought bubble. When the seahorse is put back into tank 1 this becomes much more rare. However I don’t notice much if any of a difference in sales (Same species of fish sold with same price)

Upon further review it definitely makes the customers happier and increasing the rate at which they purchase. I don’t have a whole lot of ornaments in my tanks so I may notice it more than others. I picked up the app a few weeks ago and have been wondering what the seahorse does and thought it was quite strange when no one online knew what it did. I hate to take the mystery out of it though