Click-Clack, Click-Clack… Oh hi! Long-time no see, first off Happy New Year! Welcome to my office! Here I carefully write your Fishblast’s every month! I am still recovering from an amazing New Years party, so ignore the empty soda bottles and popcorn laying around. But I think we have quite a bit to catch up on. We had a new DLC release in November, the holidays came, and I think just many amazing things happened. I hope you had a great time as well!
Community build
To celebrate the new year we hosted a unique building challenge. Asking all members to build a facility in the shape of the year 2022. And people had so many ideas, and it was a tough pick. Here we are though: The winner of the 2022 build is: Sardine. They created such a compact version of the theme, but with unique use of the new Architect’s Collection bridges. We just could not let it slide.
The smart use of smaller tanks under the bridges created a dynamic but interesting walk for all the guests. Maybe this is something you could try too!
Try and build this!
Often people are looking for challenges. Sometimes having no idea what to create. This short segment will give you some guides to unfold your very own creativity. Are you ready to give it a try?
Try and build this: Dining area next to a reef tank
How to build this:
- Create a reef tank that covers a whole wall.
- Place benches facing each other against the window.
- Have a buffet-type area with all the food options you want to give your guests.
- Too much central open space? Add a small tank there too, so all guests can have a similar experience.
Have fun building!
Mod Spotlight
We started this year with a fantastic release of a huge new mod pack for you creative people. One that allows second floors to your builds and more tools to create heights in a way you have never seen before. I am talking about the:
Rickreptile Building Kit by RickReptile
This mod adds various tools (and even has expansion mods) to change your game into literal new levels. There are almost no words to describe the possibilities with this mod, and I could only recommend it for you to try and make something yourself.
[Click here to discover this fantastic mod]
Fishypedia
Common Name: Arapaima
Scientific Name: Arapaima gigas
Range: The Amazon
Habitat: River Basin
Size: Up to 3 meters (10 ft)
Diet: Fish and other animals on the water surface
Needs in Megaquarium:
- Tropical waters
- Water quality at least 60%
- Acidic Waters
- Feeding Skill: 1
- Greedy
- Heavy Armored
- Likes floating cover: 9
- Likes Caves: 11
- Open Space: 3x3
- Fish and Crustacean Eater (minimum size: 4)
Fun facts:
- The mouth of an Arapaima works like a vacuum. When hungry, it opens its mouth to suck up nearby food.
- Arapaima can breathe air and stay submerged for 10-20 minutes at a time. It can survive up to 24 hours outside of the water!
- Arapaima are mouth brooders.
How does it work?
In this segment we are looking into the life behind the scenes of machinery or tasks that happen in public aquariums. We might ponder the question: How do UV filters work? Or investigate the breeding progress of a certain species.
For this month’s “How does it work” we will be looking into how public aquaria introduce new fish to a tank.
When visiting a public aquarium you might notice empty tanks, or even new fish in an already established tank. Sometimes they are changing their collection, and sometimes it is just another fine addition to a tank. But do they just drop the fish in the tank and let it live its life?
When adding a fish to a tank, it is very common to first quarantine the fish. Meaning to separate it for a while to make sure it does not hold diseases and to make sure it eats fine. Quarantine is often a room behind the scenes with multiple tanks on separate filtration systems. Separate because if there is a disease, you do not want this disease to end up in all tanks linked to that filter system. After a few weeks with the fish showing healthy behaviour, it could be ready to move it to the display tank.
Do you have quarantine tanks in your Megaquarium builds?
Want to be more involved in our community? Join our [Discord] and share your works, we love seeing what you created and maybe we will feature your work in the next FishBlast.
See you in the next one!
Your community liaison, Timmiegun