HI everyone,

Now that you've gotten your hands on the latest and great Fish Tycoon 2, but where do you go from here?

If you've played Fish Tycoon prior to this, then consider the graphical improvements an upgrade. BUT this guide if not meant for experienced players. If you are one, this guide is not for you.

But if you are completely new to the game, here are some steps that will help in building your Fish-pire.

Prologue
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Seems like the game starts you off with a rundown fish aquarium where you have to upgrade everything from the tanks, the decor, the lounge, and yes, it even has its own wishing well.

That is not the objective of the game.

To start yourself off, familiarize yourself with the HUD (Heads Up Display). Yes, fancy way of saying User Interface.

Know your Stuff
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Income / Money
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This is your only way to get upgrades, and then have access to new species of fish.

This whole thing will take you about 24 hours. Of course, you don't need the game to be turned on 24 hours, this time estimate includes the various waiting time in between.

So do not buy anything until you reach this point, and after the in-game tutorial.

Go tap on the Daily Rewards (if it still hasn't been prompted to you yet), and tap on the Day 1 icon to get the reward. You MUST tap on it to check-in.

The reset time is 24 hours after you tap on it. There is no server reset time. If you tapped it at 8pm, it will be available tomorrow at 8pm.

First things first, you will want to purchase from the (Supplies >) Upgrades tab is the Plant of Nutrition. This works like a low-cost version of the Auto-Feeder. But you pay with Gold.

Do not be tempted to buy the Auto-Feeder just yet.

The plant of nutrition will keep your fish well fed, so that you don't turn off the game (forget to pause it), and come back to floating fish bones (dead fish).

If you do not have enough Gold, watch through a few ads to get more Gold to buy the items.

TIP: Would suggest that you catch a few episodes of your favorite TV show while maxing out your ad watching. This will provide some startup capital.

Fish Health
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This is also important. Dead fish means no money for you.

What you will need to buy next is the Cleaning Snail. This will reduce the risk of up to Uncommon type fish some benefit.

At this point, start dragging random fish to breed with the Magic Fish of Nutrition in your Breeding tank.

This Magic fish will prevent your fish from losing health when they starve. Which also means that if you see your fish losing health, the Environment Level in the tank is not high enough.

Research Level
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This is found by tapping Supplies > Research.

You will start with Level 1 Advertising, Environment, and Food.

Environment will be essential in your success.

Remember your fish won't die of hunger now (read: magic fish of nutrition), they will die if the environment is not suitable.

Watch more ads at this point to get more gold to research this upgrade to level 2.

While you are at it, watch more ads.

Again,

Next Steps
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1. Keep breeding the fish to try and get Rare fish so that you can sell it at higher prices.

2. On the store front, click on the Shark Mascot at the entrance with the READY button. This will boost sales and make the fish be so popular that they get snatched up quickly.
She has a 90 seconds work time after you click on her.
She has a 1 Hour cooldown time.

3. Don't buy anything like eggs (Supplies > Supplies), decoration (Supplies > Decorate), etc. Unless you have to do quests (Square box with ? under Daily Rewards)

4. Ignore everything after Plant of Nutrition, that's late game.

5. Buy the following Upgrades and Research in this order:

1. Plant of Nutrition
2. Cleaning Snail
3. Environment Level 2
4. Repair Fountain
5. Temperature Regulator
6. Food Level 2
7. Plant of Fertility
8. Additional Tank (use Gold, not Gems)
9. Environment Level 3
9. Aeration System
9. Plant of Curing
11. Environment Level 4
12. Power Filter
13. Advertising Level 2
13. Auto Feeder (can be earlier, before Plant of Fertility)
14. Food Level 3
15. Food Level 4
16. Advertising Level 3
17. Advertising Level 4
18. Golden Seahorse (You really don't need this since we have the Store Mascot)
19. Everything else

6. Quests don't really help a lot in your game progression, do them when you have time. But once you see "Discover xx number of xx Type of Fish", you can stop.

7. Remember to pause the game before you go to sleep. Or if you are going to be away for more than 3.5 hours.

8. Always keep 100 spare gold to buy medicine, just in case you wake up to sick fish that is diagnose with Ick, or Fungal.
Tap on the ? with the circle border to see the status of your fish.

Epilogue
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I have yet to complete the game, but these are the steps to get you the economy (read: Gold) to run the shop and breed fish.

Free to Play (F2P) player here. Not planning to spend real life money for this, so my way of support for the game developers are to watch ads.

You should watch ads until it is exhausted. Yes, it can actually happen.

By then you should have Power Filter already. And that is really making your budget work.

Hope this guide helps you as well.

If there are improvements, let me know!