Questions about alien containment unit

[Saso ʕꖘﻌꖘʔ]

Do you have to feed fish inside the unit or do anything to care for them? I managed to find one ampeel egg and I want to take good care of it. Is this necessary? If so what do ampeels eat?

Also, what's the limit in terms of space? The data entry mentions fish dying after it's overpopulated. Wiki has no numbers on this.

[kwong20287]

No, no need for feeding.
1 aquarium holds 10 fish, 2 stacked hold 20 and so on.

[Emmagination]

Nope, everything is self-sustained. Just make sure you don't have more than 10 creatures per aquarium (if you link aquariums it's still 10 per so if you stack 4 you can put 40 creatures in)

[Ankh Reaper]

I don't know about overpopulation but I haven't had to feed my fish yet. (I dropped a few peepers in there to be sure and none went missing. They only continued to populate) If you put another multipurpose room on top of your current one and then place another containment inside, the two tanks will connect. It makes the alien containment taller and gives your fish more room.

[Saso ʕꖘﻌꖘʔ]

Perfect Thanks for explaining, hope the excitement is almost over hehehe

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1292872486

[Zhitzu]

You want an ampeel as a pet? Can I have your seamoth when you die?

[scottster858]

Also, if you have 2 or more of the same fish (I believe this is not true with just one), they will multiple over time until the tank is full.

[Emmagination]

Originally posted by Eloines ʕಠᴥಠʔﾉ:

Perfect :happy_creep: Thanks for explaining, hope the excitement is almost over hehehe

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1292872486

Word of warning. You can connect new tanks above or below what you already have and if you build below, the ground of the aquarium will move accordingly but any plant you have in there will disappear.

[Saso ʕꖘﻌꖘʔ]

Originally posted by scottster858:

Also, if you have 2 or more of the same fish (I believe this is not true with just one), they will multiple over time until the tank is full.

Ohh I was wondering about that. So it stops once the tank is full, sounds good.

[Critterbot]

Originally posted by Zhitzu:

You want an ampeel as a pet? Can I have your seamoth when you die?

All home grown creatures are harmless, at least while inside the containment unit.

[Saso ʕꖘﻌꖘʔ]

Originally posted by Critterbot:

Originally posted by Zhitzu:

You want an ampeel as a pet? Can I have your seamoth when you die?

All home grown creatures are harmless, at least while inside the containment unit.

Can conrfirm. Noodle hatched and he does not hurt me inside the tank. All good

[The Icecream Snowman]

I stacked four on top of each other to make a huge tank. You have to build all teh rooms first, then place each aquarium. I had a rabbit ray swimming around outside the tank, though.

[Zhitzu]

Originally posted by Critterbot:

Originally posted by Zhitzu:

You want an ampeel as a pet? Can I have your seamoth when you die?

All home grown creatures are harmless, at least while inside the containment unit.

lol yes, I know. Was just making a 'roleplay joke' so to speak. I've made my own aquarium facility, with a tank for each species, in the deep at very special place.
It's good fun walking around and looking at all the 'fish' without them trying to eat you lol.

[DrLoboto]

Are you guys sure that creatures can't die in the alien containment as long as it's not overpopulated? I have a two storey tank that contained one stalker, one sandshark, one boneshark, one ampeel and one jellyray, and they got along fine for a long while, but I've just returned to my base to find that all but the jellyray are suddenly gone.

The last thing I did was plant an eyestalk and a tiger plant in the alien containment. Could that be connected to it? The tiger plant doesn't attack me, is it possible that it attacked the predators though? Oh, and before that the base had been flooded for a short time, but that didn't seem to affect the creatures in the containment (and why should it). Or is this just a weird bug?

EDIT:
Okay, I just put another stalker in the tank and witnessed what happened first hand. The tiger plant does attack predators until they're dead, and I think the flooding of the base might have been connected with that as well, because the base started flooding again (despite a hull strength of 40 or so) and the breaches were always in the same room as the containment unit. So there's a lesson learned:

Don't put tiger plants in the predator tank!

They'll get aggressive and kill all the predators as well as possibly damage your hull with their missiles.