Alien Containment questions

[Chanrevo]

I just got the alien containment aquarium, and so far I've put in like 5-ish eggs(two cuddlefish! thanks timecapsule) and planted two plants

What are the limits to the fauna? Will I ever run into an issue hatching different species together?
Will they get too big and cause really bad problems?

And add in whatever you think I should know about this

[Inardesco]

According to the Wiki, 10 per Alien containment. You can stack the alien containment and it'll increase.

All hatched species are smaller in size and are passive to the player and other creatures.

[Demolition414]

Having to many fish in a tank to small will kill them.

[Chanrevo]

Originally posted by Wingnut:

Will only hatch 1 egg at a time, excess eggs despawn.

Really? That's odd

[Demolition414]

Ive hatched 3 eggs at once sometimes,

[morph113]

Originally posted by Chanrevo:

Originally posted by Wingnut:

Will only hatch 1 egg at a time, excess eggs despawn.

Really? That's odd

With excess eggs I assume he means eggs which go over the limit (10 per containment unit?). Also I'm sure you can hatch several eggs at the same time. I put in like 5 eggs all at once and they were all hatching just fine pretty much at the same time.

[gigastephan]

I hatched 5 crashfish eggs and thier don´t "name" it. (Normaly when you hatch an egg once,
it will name the next egg you found)
I don´t know if it´s a bug or not.

[morph113]

Originally posted by Wingnut:

Thats odd. Used to be only 1 egg could hatch at a time. And in my last playthorugh i tried hatching 2 eggs at same time, 1 hatched and the other despawned.

Was one of them maybe a reefback egg? Because you need at least 2 stacked alien containment compartments or otherwise it despawns because the tank would be too small.

[morph113]

Maybe reefback eggs need even more than 2 stacked units? I thought it was 2 but now I'm not so sure. Btw. reefback eggs look identical to spadefish eggs so that's why they may have said "unknown creature egg" and despawned on you.

[Inardesco]

From what I've read reefback eggs aren't ingame anymore?

[morph113]

Originally posted by Inardesco:

From what I've read reefback eggs aren't ingame anymore?

I got one like 2 days ago so they are definitely still there.

[Demolition414]

Originally posted by morph113:

Originally posted by Inardesco:

From what I've read reefback eggs aren't ingame anymore?

I got one like 2 days ago so they are definitely still there.

are reef back eggs like spade fish eggs still?, the blue round ones with the little sticky up bit on them

[Inardesco]

Originally posted by morph113:

Originally posted by Inardesco:

From what I've read reefback eggs aren't ingame anymore?

I got one like 2 days ago so they are definitely still there.

Guess my Alien Containment project isn't finished then. I'll have to go out and hunt myself some reefback eggs.

Do you know where the most likely drops are?

[morph113]

Originally posted by Davidleblanc20:

Originally posted by morph113:

I got one like 2 days ago so they are definitely still there.

are reef back eggs like spade fish eggs still?, the blue round ones with the little sticky up bit on them

I honestly don't remember what the egg looked like. Wiki says like spadefish egg but that might be outdated of course.