Fish Ponds

[Eric Forman]

In order to capitalized caviar more (sturgeon roe) do you guys build lots of fish ponds? Recently tried it but my main source of income in the game is via Truffle oil and Keg + Cask combo, but I found the output of fish ponds a bit low or is it normal since I only have 2 fish ponds? Any ideas on how to increase the sturgeon roe's output or do I need to spam my farm for fish ponds?

[michaelbnx]

Caviar is not a huge money maker, eventhou i think you get more roe since 1.6. I usually do 1 for the secret bundle is i go the CC route, but after that i swich to lava eel, much more profitable imo, and you occasionally get some nice goodies from it.

[emmagineif]

Output of fish ponds is pretty low. I've never tried to make it my main source of income. Caviar only sells for a base of 500 G, and you only get 1-2 per day per pond. Technically, Lava Eel Aged Roe sells for a base 760 G, and you can get up to 3 per day, but you're not guaranteed to get roe.
Expected value is 1.19 roe per day, with 10 sturgeon in a pond, or 595 G per day (without Artisan).
Lava Eel Expected value is .911 roe per day, with 10 in a pond. That's 692.36 G per day, just from roe, plus extra gold, spicy eel, and magma geodes.

With Artisan, you're looking at an expected 833 G per day per fish pond for Sturgeon, and 969.3 G per day per fish pond for Lava Eels (turning 100% of roe into Aged Roe/ Caviar).

Lava Eel has the highest sell price for it's roe, so that's the best you're gonna get. Do with these stats as you will.

[michaelbnx]

i think sturgeon roe also takes more time to age, so u have to have a bigger settup to get the same turnover than with other roes, just as a side note.

[supersand]

fish ponds are not good for profit they are for utility in getting fish as a gift (you can fish it out of the pond), or for the drops they have. They also work as a makeshift well.

The only things worth putting in the pond are Lava Eels, Blobfish, Super Cucumber, and any cooking ingredients (such as Squids for Squid Ink or Midnight Carp). Caviar only sells for like 500g and takes awhile to make so its not really worth.

[ULTRA]

Even though it's tempting to have a caviar farm in your back yard, probably the best fishing profit is just doing lava eel bait + trap bobber + master iridium rod + seafoam pudding with qi seasoning, smoking all the lava eels and then making like 100,000 gold a day or something.

If you have a flounder, midnight carp and midnight squid pond, it will be way easier to get that seafoam pudding.

[Eric Forman]

Thank you guys for the inputs, was struggling and I find it to be slow as well harvesting those roes, I guess I'll destroy those ponds for now as compare to truffle oil + wine are more profitable as well as duplicating gems particularly diamonds. Cheers to all!

[Útost Alronbem]

Not necessarily destroy... there is a rumour that ponds can make Statue of Perfection obsolete, if you'll put right fish into it.
And as you can gather everything necessary waaaaaaay before getting said statue... ponds are probably still a worthwhile investment. Ore of this kind doesn't grow on trees.

[kingjames488]

I've never found caviar worth doing outside of the bundle requirement...

my top picks for fish ponds are super cucumbers for early iridium , the super-popular lava eels for gold ore and money, blobfish for pearls and warp totems, rainbow trout for the change of prismatic shards; also the rue of those is worth a decent amount as are the fish.

other than that it can be useful to keep things like woodskips for the hardwood or lobster pot fish for their respective warp totems.

also most fish reach their max production at 9/10 fish, so when it reached 10/10 you can fish one out and sell it for extra profits with no loss to production... tho I think some require 10/10 so probably check the wiki on that.