[Official] Animal suggestion thread

[Twice Circled]

Hey all, I was recently asked if there was a place to suggest and discuss animal choices for the game so I thought I'd make one.

All the results are tabulated in a big chart and used to shape future design choices.

Here's the animals that are currently in the game:

Megaquarium

Rank 1
Azure Demoiselle
orchid dottyback
Half and Half Chromis

Rank 2
King Demoiselle
Arabian bluelined dottyback
Yellow Tang
Blackbar Soldierfish

Rank 3
Royal Gramma
Flame Angelfish
Coral Grouper
Redtail butterflyfish
Zebra Moray Eel

Rank 4
Reef Squirrelfish
Oblique-lined dottyback
Fox Face Rabbitfish
Panther grouper
Long Horn Cowfish
Volitans Lionfish
Blue knuckle hermit crab
Disco mushrooms

Rank 5
Coral Beauty
Cuckoo Wrasse
Atlantic Pollock
Humpback snapper
Porcupine Puffer
Fuzzy Dwarf Lionfish
Common starfish
Blue tubular sponge
Schooling Bannerfish

Rank 6
Arabian Butterflyfish
French Angelfish
Ballan Wrasse
Unicorn Surgeonfish
Epaulette Shark
Striped Boxfish
Moon Jelly
Frilled Anemone
Daisy Star Polyps

Rank 7
Clown Fish
Bartlett Anthias
Turbot
Horse-eye Jack
Bull Huss Shark
Green Moray Eel
Common Cuttlefish
Pie-Crust Crab
Marbled Serpent Starfish
Bubbletip Anemone

Rank 8
Squarespot Anthias
Atlantic Mackerel
Regal Tang
Southern Stingray
Blue and Yellow Grouper
Leopard Shark
Lumpsucker
Spotted Boxfish
Toadstool Leather Coral
Common Lobster

Rank 9
Achilles Surgeonfish
Emperor Angelfish
Blonde Skate
Atlantic Cod
Tassled Wobbegong Shark
Slender seahorse
Wolffish
Scarlet leg hermit crab
Fish-eating anemone

Rank 10
Copperband Butterfly
Blue Whiting
Blacktip Reef Shark
Bluespotted Ribbontail Ray
Starry Smoothhound
Big Bellied Seahorse
Fried egg Jelly
Leaf Scorpionfish
Staghorn Coral
Plate Coral

Rank 11
Purple Queen Anthias
Sohal Surgeonfish
Green Turtle
Angel Shark
Bonnethead Shark
Spotted Eagle Ray
Flame pipefish
Greater Blue Ring Octopus
Sun montipora
Purple plume fan

Rank 12
Green Mandarin Dragonet
Meyers Butterflyfish
Lemon shark
Manta Ray
Whale Shark
Giant Pacific Octopus
Leafy Seadragon
Nautilus
Emperor gorgonian
Leopard Giant clam

Freshwater Frenzy DLC

Rank 4
Midas Cichlid
Convict Cichlid
Guppy

Rank 5
Red striped eartheater
Boeseman's Rainbow
Blind Cave Tetra
Tinfoil Barb

Rank 6
Pacu
Amazonian Angelfish
Adolfo's Cory
Congo Tetra
Cardinal Tetra

Rank 7
Sunshine Pleco
Gardner's Killifish
Eastern Long-necked Turtle
Fan shrimp

Rank 8
Red Bellied Piranha
Butterfly Ram
Redtail Catfish
Panther Crab

Rank 9
Porcupine River Stingray
Ripsaw Catfish
Giant Hatchetfish

Rank 10
Discus
Electric Eel
Dwarf Crocodile

Rank 11
Arapaima
Green Anaconda
American Paddlefish

Rank 12
American Manatee

Architect's Collection DLC

Rank 4
Peacock Mantis Shrimp
Picasso Triggerfish

Rank 5
Oriental Sweetlips
Sea Needle

Rank 6
Decorator Crab

Rank 7
Tub Gurnard

Rank 8
Surge Wrasse

Rank 9
Golden Jack
Garden Eel
Steephead Parrotfish

Rank 10
John Dory
Large Tooth Sawfish

Rank 11
Japanese Spider Crab
Napoleon Wrasse

Rank 12
Ocean Sunfish

Deep Freeze DLC

Rank 4
Arctic Char
Shorthorn Sculpin

Rank 5
Giant Isopod
Antarctic Scallop
Antarctic Silverfish

Rank 6
Antarctic Sea Whip
Antarctic Sea Pig
Blackfin Icefish
Long-tailed Duck

Rank 7
Atlantic Puffin
Dumbo Octopus
Antarctic Feather Star

Rank 8
Northern Sea Otter
Pacific Viperfish
Arctic Skate
Zigzag Coral

Rank 9
Snow Petrel
Adélie Penguin
Black Seadevil Anglerfish
Peacock Squid

Rank 10
Emperor Penguin
Long-nosed Chimaera
Bubblegum Coral

Rank 11
Crabeater Seal
Barreleye
Atlantic Halibut

Rank 12
Pacific Walrus
Goblin Shark

Rank 13
Polar Bear
Giant Phantom Jelly

What would you like to see in the game and why?

[Joppe]

I think Paradise fish would make a nice addition: Macropodus opercularis in particular. Also Whitecloud Mountain Minnows: Tanichtys albonubes and Celestial Pearl Danios Danio margaritatus, though the latter may be on the smallish side. =)

[Greenie's Genie]

I think adding non-captive fish as Easter Eggs into the game would be neat and funny. For example, You can get like an Oar Fish, A Great White shark... from doing X,Y and Z (in say rank 11 or 12). This could get you a single animal (designed for looks not for like insanely high prestige output). Also, it gives possibilities for adding secret achievements.

I know this game is suppose to use normal animals that are found in aquariums, but it would neat to try and figure out how to get the Easter egg fish.

[Krall]

I used to keep these really awesome, messy and very dog like fish called Oscars. Any time you came to the tank they’d come to the front and greet you and sort of waggle their fins. They were always hungry and loved to smash the hood on the tank. Once to my horror one jumped out! OMG I had a heart attack trying to get poor ‘Oscar’ back in the tank before my dog found out. Another time he seemed like he was mad and literally excavated all the gravel from the bottom of the tank, causing the driftwood to float and piled it all in the corner.

So I’d love to see them in game!

[MedJet]

Have to admit; I'd love to see the Ocean Sunfish. Hoped to catch it at the Monterey Bay Aquarium but missed it by the time I made it for a visit.

[LemonbalmMel]

Freshwater: Lake Malawi cichlids (perhaps adding a hard water requirement like we have for acidic at the mo), coldwater freshwater fish like koi and all goldfish/comet variants, more plants!! + the previously suggested 'starter fish' for levels 1 - 3, Gouramis, and Bettas. Ancistrus abd tetras of various forms are my loves.
Saltwater: Gobies! Of all descriptions. Chromis (blue), Bangai cardinal fish. Some more of tangs wouldn't go amiss. More plants! And more corals!!
General QoL: whether plants are better suited to cold/warm water or acidic/neutral water.

[Frostclaw]

a indian gharial

[lunawolf]

Originally posted by LemonbalmMel:

Freshwater: Lake Malawi cichlids (perhaps adding a hard water requirement like we have for acidic at the mo), coldwater freshwater fish like koi and all goldfish/comet variants, more plants!! + the previously suggested 'starter fish' for levels 1 - 3, Gouramis, and Bettas. Ancistrus abd tetras of various forms are my loves.
Saltwater: Gobies! Of all descriptions. Chromis (blue), Bangai cardinal fish. Some more of tangs wouldn't go amiss. More plants! And more corals!!
General QoL: whether plants are better suited to cold/warm water or acidic/neutral water.

I second Goldfish and Koi! I would love to see breedable versions of them with pattern and colour mutations. It would be awesome if you could start with maybe something like a 'small carp' or a 'large carp' to unlock them via breeding, since that's how they originated in the first place.

[Darkluke]

This list is going to be more focused on freshwater animals since I work with those, but I’ll try to cover some saltwater species I’d like to see.

Saltwater (Tropical):
Frogfish
Blennies (midas, bicolor)
Cardinalfish (Kaudern’s and or pajama, breedable)
More eels (garden eels, ribbon eel)
Triggerfish and filefish (aptasia eating filefish, clown triggerfish)
Grunts and sweetlips (porkfish, jack-knifefish, hi-hat)
Hawkfish (longnose hawkfish)
More pufferfish
Guitarfish and sawfish
A few more sharks and rays (sand tiger shark, Port Jackson’s shark, zebra shark, leopard whipray)
Tropical wrasses (bluestreak cleaner wrasse, lyuetail wrasse, Napoleon wrasse)
Goatfish (yellow, bicolor)
Parrotfish
Flashlightfish
Shrimpfish
Coral Catfish
Barracuda
Atlantic tarpon
Sea cucumbers
Fan worms
Upside-down jellyfish
Sea slugs (lettuce sea slug, sea hare)
More starfish (chocolate chips starfish, blue linckia)
Shrimps (scarlet skunk cleaner shrimp, banded coral shrimp)
Sea urchins (Diadema sp.)
More corals, sponges, anemones and madrepores

Saltwater (Coldwater):
Sea Robin
Sparidae (red sea bream, black sea bream)
Garibaldi
Conger eel
Saltwater bass (kelp bass, sea bass)
John Dory
Mackerel icefish
Mullet
Salmon
Longspine snipefish
Spotted ratfish
Electric ray
Japanese giant spider crab
More benthic invertebrates (sea urchins, sea cucumbers …)

Saltwater (oceanic, made this category for fish that are found worldwide and thus I wasn’t sure if I should put them in either of the other two)
Mahi-mahi
Bluefin tuna
Cobia
Ocean sunfish

Freshwater (Tropical):
Banded leporinus
Asian Cyprinidae (barbs, danios, rasboras, labeo, garra)
More livebearers (mollies, swordtail)
Betta (fighting fish)
Gouramis (three spot gourami, giant gourami)
Gobies (bumblebee goby, peacock goby)
Loaches (clown loach, pangio, hillstream loach)
More plecos (zebra pleco, twig catfish)
More Catfish (glass catfish, upside down catfish, pangasius, banjo catfish, shovelnose catfish)
Peter’s elephantnose fish
Knifefish (clown featherback, black ghost knifefish)
African cichlids (lake Malawi mbunas, lake Tanganyka, jewel cichlids, tilapia)
Freshwater pufferfish (mbu pufferfish)
Asian arowana
Alligator gar
African tigerfish
Sixbar distichodus
Lungfish (either the more common african species or the australian one)
Bichirs
Fire eel
Snakeheads
African butterflyfish
Amazon leaffish
Vampire crab
Crayfish (Florida blue crayfish)
Nerite snails
Softshell turtles
Pignose turtle
African clawed frog

Freshwater (Coldwater):
Goldfish
Carp
Koi
Grass carp
Tench
Ide
Bitterling
Rainbow shiner or fathead minnow
Sturgeons
Rainbow trout
Three spined stickleback
Rainbow darter
Sunfish (pumpkinseed sunfish, Enneacanthus sp. Largemouth bass)
Bullhead catfish
Axolotl
Pond sliders/terrapins
Swan mussel

Brackish water (again another category I made):
Atlantic mudskipper
Banded archerfish
Spotted scatophagous
Silver moony
Pufferfish
Mollies
Gobies
Etroplus
Four-eyed fish

In the long run I wouldn’t mind a dlc with aquatic mammals and birds, even if I’m not particularly fond of them it would make for an entertaining new campaign.

[Reynolds]

more corydoras please

[krishnath.dragon]

Some lower level freshwater fish would be nice. I am talking super easy species to keep, from 1st level and up.

"White Cloud Mountain Minnows" is a classic and very easy to keep in unheated aquariums.

Another very easy species is the "Mosquito Livebearer", a distant relative to the guppy and much easier to keep (sadly rarely seen in the pet trade, despite it being so easy to keep.)

And of course the Paradise Fish, which also holds the dubious honor to be the first fish to be kept in actual aquariums (at the time, goldfish was kept in ponds).

Speaking of which, the "Common Goldfish" is another surprisingly easy species to keep, if you can accomodate for its size. The "Comet" variant is basically just a common goldfish with longer fins.

Fancy strains of goldfish are also hardy fish, but they are smaller and slightly more sensitive than the common variant, and if implemented should be treated as a seperate entity from the common/comet varieties.

And finally, the "Celestial Pearl Danio", an incredibly tiny fish, and incredibly easy to keep and breed. It should be unlocked at level 3, be size one (they're tiny fish after all), and should probably only be kept with size 1 or 2 fish.

As for higher levels, I only have one suggestion right now:

The Kribensis/Rainbow Krib (Pelvicachromis pulcher), a Cichlid from the Congo Delta. Any of the African riverine dwarf cichlids would be a great addition to the game, but the Kribensis is probably the most well known (and easy to breed, seriously, once a pair gets going its nearly impossible for them to stop.)

[Aleph-1]

made me wonder.... are there more sharks to be added?

[Karl Fletcher]

After seeing some of the stuff the new DLC has so far; I'd like to see Pistol Shrimp and more Crustaceans! the Japanese Spider Crab, Peacock Mantis Shrimp and Decorator Crab were all very cool!

[dsbishop225]

I have a list of new animals and new things for you guys if your interested.


Prehistoric Animals

Fish
Rofosteus
‬Xiphactinus
Megapiranha
Helicoprion
Drepanaspis
Pteraspis
Rhizodus
Xenacanthus
Materpiscis
Leedsichthys
Hyneria
Enchodus
Protosphyraena
Gillicus
Physogaleus

Reptiles
Cymbospondylus
Henodus
Metriorhynchus
Placodus
Euparkeria (Terrarium)
Temnodontosaurus
Titanoboa

Arthropods
Arthropleura (Terrarium)
Pulmonoscorpius (Terrarium)
Meganeura (Terrarium)
Brontoscorpio (Terrarium)
Megalograptus

Birds
Hesperornis
Dow's puffin
Great Auk

Amphibians
Diplocaulus
Koolasuchus
Golden Toad
Gastric-brooding frog
Hynerpeton

Mollucs
Camerceras
Perisphinctes
Titanites

Mammals
Basilosaurus
Moeritherium
Livyatan
Caribbean Monk Seal

Present Day

Fish
Silver Arowana
Black Arowana
Snakehead
Yangtze Sturgeon
Stonefish

Reptiles
Alligator Snapping Turtle
Common Snapping Turtle
Chameleons (Panther, Veiled, and Jackson’s,)
Cuban False Chameleon
Leopard Gecko
Tokay Gecko
House Gecko
Day Gecko
Nile Crocodile
Saltwater Crocodile
Tuatara
Western diamondback rattlesnake
Timber rattlesnake
Eastern copperhead
Water Moccasin
Eastern diamondback rattlesnake
Red-eyed crocodile skink
Blue-tailed skink
Cunningham's spiny-tailed skink
Five-lined skink
Broadhead skink
Japanese skink
Black Ratsnake
Corn Snake

Arthropods
Hissing Cockroach
Praying Mantis
Dungeness Crab
Snow Crab
Goliath Birdeater
Mexican red-knee Tarantula
Chilean fire tarantula
Costa Rican zebra
Mexican redlegs
Western desert tarantula
Emperor Scorpion
Bark Scorpion

Birds
Atlantic Puffin
Horned Puffin
Tufted Puffin
Wood duck
Common loon
Common Murre
Pigeon Gulliomot
Razorbill
Blue-footed booby
Northern gannet
Scarlet Macaw
Blue-and-yellow macaw
Spix's macaw
Sulphur-crested cockatoo
Cockatiel
Galah
Palm Cockatoo
Mallard

Mammals
African Hedgehog
European Hedgehog
American Beaver
Sea Otter
River Otter
Asian small-clawed Otter
Dugong
Beluga
Nutria
Duck-billed Platypus
Grey Seal
Harbor Seal
Star-nosed mole
Eastern mole
Vampire Bat
Townsend's big-eared bat
Large flying fox
Little Brown Bat
Jamaican Fruit Bat


Amphibians
Bullfrog
Chinese giant Salamander
Caecillian
Fire Salamander

Mythical Creatures
Hippocampus
Sea Serpent
Kraken
Cetus
Sea Dragon

Tanks
Aviary tank with rocks and deep
Aviary walk-though enclosure
Bat tank (Rounded)
Mythical Tank (Rounded)
Grand Tunnel Tank

Decorations
More Museum Exhibits
Statues
Mythical Monster statues (Minotaur, Medusa, Chimera, and Sphinx)

Gift Shop
Plushies (Teddy Bears, Frog, Dolphin, Beaver, Penguins, Duck, Great Auk, and Orca
Animal Figures (Sharks, Whales and Crocodiles)
Souvenirs (Postcards, Key Chains, Wallpapers, Cups, Sunglasses, and Tokens)
Clothing (Hoodies, Jackets, Hats, Sandals, and Tanktops)

Food
Blood
Flies
Mealworms
Algae

[Trigger]

I would love to see some new oceanic rays, espacially from the Mobula familly to accompagny the Manta ray ! I searched a bit, and it seems only one has been made (mobula japanica).
I would kill to see Mobula Hypostoma in particular, these are so fun to watch, so lively and fast ! But also :
- Mobula diabolus
- Mobula kuhlii
- Mobula mobular
- Mobula munkiana

Cheers, your game is fire !!!

[Tryclyde]

Snails. They are excellent cleaners and would fit nicely in some freshwater tanks. Plenty of variation to choose from.