Aquariums

Aquariums are interactive housing addons that let you keep live fish and underwater creatures in your home. Fish are caught using special nets and placed into the tank, where they must be fed and maintained with clean water. A well-kept aquarium periodically generates rewards including decorative items, rare fish, and useful gear.

Aquariums are purchased from NPC Fishermen for approximately 250,000 gold. They come in two orientations — south-facing and east-facing — and are available in three styles: Small Elegant Aquarium, Wall Mounted Aquarium, and Large Elegant Aquarium.

Supplies

Everything you need to get started is sold by NPC Fishermen.

Item	Purpose
Aquarium Fish Net	A half-net used to catch live fish for your aquarium. One net per catch attempt. Returned to your backpack on a failed attempt.
Fish Bowl	You need one empty bowl available in your backpack for each fish you catch. Without a bowl, caught fish go loose in your backpack and die in about 5 minutes.
Fish Food	Bottles of food used to maintain your tank's food state. Each bottle counts as 1 unit of food. Drag and drop onto the aquarium to feed.
Pitcher of Water	Used to maintain your tank's water quality. Fill from any water trough. Each pour adds 1 unit of water. Drag and drop onto the aquarium.
Vacation Wafer	Pauses all tank updates for 7 days, keeping food and water states frozen. No events or rewards are generated during vacation mode.

Catching Fish

To catch fish for your aquarium, you need an Aquarium Fish Net and at least one Fish Bowl in your backpack. You do not need to be on a boat — any fishable water works.

Double-click the Aquarium Fish Net.
Target the water near you.
You will either catch a fish (it leaps into your fish bowl) or get a message that the fish were too quick.
Failed attempts return the net to your backpack so you can try again.

Fish skill level affects the variety of catches. Lower skill tends to produce mostly Minoc Blue Fish and Shrimp, while higher Fishing skill unlocks a wider range of species.

Fish live indefinitely inside a fish bowl, so you can stockpile catches before adding them to your tank. Fish in bowls can also be displayed on their own or sold on player vendors.

Setting Up Your Aquarium

Place your aquarium deed in your house to create the tank.
Catch fish using nets and bowls as described above.
Drag and drop a fish bowl onto the aquarium to add the fish to the tank.
The tank menu will update to show the number of live creatures.

An aquarium can hold up to 30 live creatures.

Tank Maintenance

The aquarium updates on roughly a 48-hour cycle. Before each maintenance pass, check the tank menu carefully to see what your fish need. Do not add food or water without reading the menu first — overfeeding moves your food state past Full into an undesirable Overfed state.

Reading the Tank Menu

Single-click the aquarium and choose Examine Tank to view the status display.

Menu Line	What It Means
Live Creatures: X/30	Current number of living creatures out of a maximum of 30. Fish arrive either by being placed by the owner or by spawning as tank events.
Food State	Current feeding condition. Five levels from worst to best — you want Full. Going past Full results in Overfed, which is harmful.
Water State	Current water quality. Five levels from worst to best — you want Strong.
Food Added / Feed / Improve	Shows how much food you have already added this cycle, how much is needed to maintain the current food state (Feed), and how much is needed to improve it by one level (Improve). Each bottle of food dragged onto the tank counts as 1 unit.
Water Added / Needed	Shows how much water you have added and how much more is needed to maintain or improve the water state. Each pitcher pour counts as 1 unit.
Contents: X/30 Items, X Stones	Inventory summary of the tank, similar to a container.

Feeding and Watering

To add food, drag and drop a bottle of Fish Food onto the aquarium. To add water, drag and drop a filled Pitcher of Water onto the aquarium. Check the menu numbers before adding anything — feed exactly what is needed, no more.

Vacation Mode

If you will be away for an extended period, use a Vacation Wafer on your aquarium before you leave. This freezes all tank updates for 7 days, preventing food and water states from deteriorating. No events or rewards are generated during this time.

Events and Rewards

Each time the tank updates (approximately every 48 hours), there is a chance for an event or a reward to occur. Mouse over your aquarium to see if either is pending, then single-click the tank and select the appropriate option to view the event or collect the reward.

Events

Events can include new creatures appearing in your tank, changes to food or water condition, or the random death of a creature for unexplained reasons. Fish deaths from random events can happen regardless of tank health, so consider keeping particularly rare fish in individual fish bowls or in a tank on permanent vacation mode as a safeguard.

Fish Death

The maximum number of live creatures your tank can support depends on tank health (food and water states). If tank health deteriorates while you are near capacity, the new lower maximum may be below your current creature count. Random creatures will die until the population drops to the new limit.

Removing Fish

To remove a fish from the tank, examine the tank, navigate to the page showing the fish you want, and click the remove button. You must have an empty Fish Bowl in your backpack — the fish will be placed back into the bowl.

Reward Tables

Common Fish

These are the fish caught directly with the Aquarium Fish Net from any fishable water.

Albino Courtesan Fish	Long Claw Crab	Small Mouth Sucker Fin
Albino Frog	Makoto Courtesan Fish	Speckled Crab
Britain Crown Fish	Minoc Blue Fish	Spined Scratcher Fish
Fandancer Fish	Nujel'm Honey Fish	Spotted Buccaneer
Golden Broadtail	Purple Frog	Vesper Reef Tiger
Jellyfish	Red Dart Fish	Yellow Fin Bluebelly
Killer Frog	Shrimp

Reward Fish

Reward fish are randomly generated by the tank approximately every 10 to 30 days. They may appear as unusual color variants of common fish or as unique species. Tank condition does not appear to affect reward fish generation, as long as there is room for at least one more living creature.

Brine Shrimp	Sea Horse
Coral	Stripped Flake Fish
Full Moon Fish	Stripped Sosaria Swill Fish

Decorative Aquarium Rewards

Every two days, a healthy aquarium may generate a decorative reward item tagged as an "aquarium decoration." These items can be placed inside the aquarium or locked down anywhere in your house. The quality and variety of decorative rewards depends on both the number of living fish in the tank and the overall tank health. A tank with very few fish or poor health will mostly produce Fish Bones.

Aquarium Fishing Net	Message In A Bottle
Captain Blackheart's Fishing Pole	Shells
Crafty's Fishing Hat	Toy Boat
Fish Bones	Waterlogged Thigh Boots
Island Statue	Waterlogged Boots

Tips

Keep 3–4 pitchers of water on hand and fill them from a nearby water trough so you are always ready for the next maintenance cycle.
Read the menu before adding anything. Overfeeding pushes your food state past Full into Overfed, which harms your tank. Only add exactly what the Feed or Improve number says.
Buy bowls in bulk. You need one empty bowl per catch, and it is much more efficient to buy a stack of bowls and nets together so you can fish in one long session.
Higher Fishing skill means more variety. If you are only catching Minoc Blue Fish and Shrimp, train your Fishing skill higher to unlock the rarer species.
Use Vacation Wafers before extended absences. Seven days of frozen maintenance is far better than returning to a tank full of dead fish.
Protect rare fish. Random death events can strike any creature regardless of tank health. If you catch something truly rare, consider keeping it safely in a fish bowl on display rather than risking it in an active tank.
More fish and better health means better rewards. A full, healthy tank has the best chance of generating the top-tier decorative rewards like Captain Blackheart's Fishing Pole, the Island Statue, or Crafty's Fishing Hat.