My three blogs

Steve's guide for tapfishers

Recently I got this guide via email and I am posting it here. I think it is a comprehensive one, and it can help a lot of players:

TapFish with More Fish and Less Tapping

Having recently reached level 60, Tap Fish 2's practical limit (higher levels require an absurd amount of repetitive effort, and give you relatively nothing in return), I thought I should share my experience with other tapfishers. I'm going to assume that people more or less have the following goal: create lots of pretty tanks with a reasonable but minimal investment of time and money. That goal contains several key elements that we'll cover in detail below. You can only have as many tanks as your level, so to create lots of tanks you have to go up lots of levels, which takes experience points. To decorate the tanks, and to buy and breed fish (which gives you experience points), you're going to need coins and fishbucks. So you play TF2 in three, slightly overlapping phases: 1) accumulate coins, 2) accumulate experience, and 3) make pretty tanks. Here is my advice for doing that reasonably efficiently.


Budget


If you're going to play TF2, and probably get addicted, then accept the fact that it will cost you some real money. Play around for free for while and try it out, but then make the decision: play and pay, or don't play at all. Without paying real money for fishbucks (FB), some activities will take a ridiculous amount of time, and many others will be unobtainable. Here is a nominal budget based on playing conservatively, with values for playing more seriously in parentheses:

- 8 (18) additional breeding tanks @40 FB = 320 (720) FB
- 2 (3) additional mystery breeding tanks @40 FB = 80 (120) FB
- 5 (10) premium fish @40 FB = 200 (400) FB
- Key backgrounds and decorations = 100 (200) FB

That totals 700 FB for playing conservatively, and 1440 FB for playing seriously (IMHO, anything more is playing foolishly or compulsively). The normal price of fishbucks is 650 FB for $20, or 1750 FB for $50, so we're talking a lot of money for a little time-waster app, and I discourage you from reading further--just forget you ever heard of this game. You can be sure that TF2, like all such apps, exploits numerous psychological tricks for getting you hooked, keeping the game on your mind, and luring you back. You probably won't be able to fully resist or avoid these temptations, just mitigate them. You have been warned. If you are undissuaded, read on.

Continue reading >>>>

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New Christmas Decorations

Just now in store I saw four new decorations:

Christmas Castle, Christmas Coral, Christmas Crab, Christmas Tower

Tapfish 101 goes mobile

Welcome to the new version of Tapfish 101, the mobile version. For this moment, I am testing this new face of my blog. If you encounter any problems with it (or you don't like it), please choose "View web version" on the bottom of the page.

Web version: http://tapfish.blogspot.com/?m=0

Mobile version: http://tapfish.blogspot.com/?m=1

Spinning experiment

Today I wanted to test the odds of getting a Gourami by spinning the fortune wheel. So, with a help of a friend (helping with the "financial" part), we took 100 spins.
Here are the results:
- 100 x 20 fb = total cost - 2000 fb
 winnings:
- 436 fb
- 2636 xp
- 10 Jersey
- 4 Football
- 5 Tall gate flag
- 3 Referee fish
- 3 Goal post
- 6 Quarterback fish
- 4 Football stadium backgrounds
- 8 Fan fish
- 3 Helmet
- 4 Lombardy Trophy

The question is: "Where is the Gourami?" Because TF posted on Facebook on August 24, quote:

"Tap Fish ‎@Heather....the gouramis are still there, but just not as likely to win as the football items at this time. Not a football fan? :("

No, I'm not a football fan (at least not American Football). I will go to a friend's tank and buy the Gourami from there

Update (after 420 spins):

Update: Final results - 1000 spins

 winnings:
- 3831 fb
- 29766 xp
- 58 Jersey
- 48 Football
- 49 Tall gate flag
- 54 Referee fish
- 62 Goal post
- 48 Quarterback fish
- 56 Football stadium backgrounds
- 52 Fan fish
- 49 Helmet
- 45 Lombardy Trophy
- 0 Gourami fish

New Collectibles - 15 Fish Bucks!!

Buy the Heart fish and get 15 fishbucks. This offer is valid only for updated games (the ones with yellow border)

Friends are limited

New Breeding Trophies

There's no more possible to get free bucks by downloading apps, but at least some bucks can be gained by completing some trophies (even though you need a lot of bucks to buy all items)

One year of blogging about this game

First post on this blog was exactly one year ago. A long time since then.

Happy Birthday Tapfish 101!

For new users - Quick starting guide / Walkthrough

I found this review on a website which is very useful for new users, well done with lots of pictures. I hope they don't mind if I post the link here.

Tap Fish is on Android. Finally!

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bayview.tapfish

Early Thanksgiving Fish

Hybrids will be posted soon, I'm on iPhone at the moment

I'll be back soon

Hi folks! Soon I will be back and start updating the blog again. There's a lot of catching-up to do, especially with the new breeds, so feel free to help me by sending me pics.
Who wants to add me as a friend and see my algae full tanks, just add Andy-Fox.
See you all soon

The best coin makers

Are Electric Eels! Buy them for 75000, sell them for 112500 after 4 days. That's 9375 profit per day. One tank full costs 3,750,000 and it sells for 5,625,000 (6,750,000 including the 20% bonus for happiness)

How much one fish will survive without feeding?

I'm making an experiment to see how much fish will stay without food
Meet the twins:

Starving artist

and

Not hungry

25 hours later: still alive but swimming belly up

Now that's strange, so I restarted the game:

Final conclusion: it starved to death in 25 hours! RIP? Not yet!

And BIG surprise!

It's not adult anymore. Maybe I'll change it's name to Benjamin Button !?

And what's more strange, a dead fish still shows in the breeding tank. Hmmm, Necrophile? Was not enough that they can breed under age, now they can do it while dead?

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One trick to stay connected

If you have a laptop with internet connection which has Windows 7 installed, there's a small application that can create a virtual hotspot so you can connect with iPod or iPhone via wifi. It's called Connectify-me and can be a life saver sometimes (fish life I mean).
I used it and works well, especially when I was travelling. More details you can find here. It's free.

New breedable fish

After latest update I saw two new breedable fish, Gold Fish and Queen Blue Fish. Stay tuned for pictures once they hatch

Levels