Tiny Aquarium: Social Fishkeeping news & patch notes

Hey everyone,

We have an exclusive in-game event and main game update to share with you as part of our inclusion in the Cozy & Family Friendly Games Steam Event, which starts today!

The Sakura Event is now live! 

During this event you can unlock rewards exclusive to this event only! Here is what you can collect:

🌸New species: Magical sakura fish, Sakura mantis shrimp, Sakura ranchu goldfish, Sakura box fish

🌸New decorations: Bonsai, mini sakura, torii gate, maneki-neko, koinobori, bamboo

🌸New sakura background

🌸New item that adds the new “Petals” badge to a fish, making it emit pink cherry blossom petals!

This event also comes with an update to the main game! This is what is included:

5 New species:

🎩 Magical catfish (Wears a fancy top hat)

👖 Blue leg hermit crab

🐅 Tiger tail seahorse

🖤 Black molly

💎 Blue jewel discus

11 new decorations:

🪨 7 uniquely colored pebbles

🎹 Piano

🪸 Coral throne

🪼 Jellyfish lamp

🐟 Aquarium sign

🛏️ Clam bed

🎠 Carousel horse

🦪 Pearl fountain

🦀 Crab shack

🗿 Ancient fish idol

🦖 Golden dinosaur skull (Super rare catch!)

We also wanted to share that you can now play Tiny Aquarium on Mobile! Take us with you on the go and connect with friends wherever you are 🐟

We hope you enjoy the event and update! 

Best fishes,

- Can & Egon from the Lunheim Team

• This is a Windows-only patch that fixes Tiny Mode issues.

• Fix weekly rewards being the same every week
• Start the game properly from last config on fullscreen/windowed
• Potential fix to tiny mode
• Fix issues with soil achievement

• Possible fix to the tiny mode issues.

• Allow more than one pair to breed at the same time
• Snails and starfish now breed after a fixed 2 seconds
• Added a button to cancel breeding in the UI breeding panel
• Possible fix to tiny mode black screen issue

- Added the missing aquarium

- Added another aquarium because why not

- Fixed bait shop not refreshing

- Fixed level requirement icon not disappearing after the requirement is met

Hey everyone,

We’re back with another seasonal update to bring some fun and whimsy to these long winter months! For those of you enjoying summer where you are right now, good for you we’re not jealous at all… 👀

But hey, regardless of where you are, we can all enjoy a trip to Tiny Aquariums arctic circle 🧊

Here’s what you’ll find in this update:

13 New Species 🦭

❄️ Arctic Char ❄️ Baby Harp Seal ❄️ Capelin ❄️ Magical Ice Coelacanth ❄️ Glacier Lanternfish ❄️ Great White Shark ❄️ Greenland Halibut ❄️ Narwhal ❄️ Polar Sculpin ❄️ Hermit Crab ❄️ Sardine ❄️ Starfish ❄️ Glaucus Atlanticus

12 New Decorations ☃️

❄️ Ice Pieces ❄️ Frozen Corals ❄️ Igloo ❄️ Snowy Rocks ❄️ Snowy Log ❄️ Red Crystal Cluster ❄️ Snowman ❄️ Snow Globe ❄️ Ancient Tree ❄️ Dinosaur Skull ❄️ White Flowers ❄️Roses

New Content 🎣

❄️ New Fishing Area: Arctic

❄️ A New Aquarium

❄️ New Egg: Swamp Egg

❄️ Stinky Badge Item

❄️ Glow Badge Item

❄️ New Soils

❄️ New Backgrounds

❄️ New Badge: Albino (Ultra rare)

❄️ New Badge: Slow Metabolism

❄️ New Badge: Fast Metabolism

…as well as many QoL and optimization improvements!

We hope you love this update and as always share your tanks with us, we love seeing your creations!

Sea you again soon 👋

Best Fishes,

- Can & Egon from the Lunheim Team Also a huge shoutout to the talented corruptimles for the new temporary cover art!

A-Lotl Axolotl is Back!

For two weeks only, you will be able to do quests and earn special Axolotl Currency. This seasonal currency can be spent on the reward shop for curious exclusive decorations, items, and of course, the Axolotl Egg!

We also updated the event to feature 2 new Axolotl species, as well as a pink Axolotl Temple!

This event will end the 9th of February, depending on local time.

Note that you need to update your game for the event to be visible. Make sure you are on version 1.15.19.

Best fishes and see you soon for more aquatic updates!

- Can & Egon from the Lunheim Team 🐙

• Fixed a bug where owning the new supporter's pack would corrupt some decorations.

• Storage spaces per level has been doubled.

• Added support (pun intended) for the new supporter's pack.

• Minor bug fixes.

• Fixed social panel not opening / friend list not loading.

Good tide-ings,

We’re feeling festive here at Lunheim HQ, so we thought it was about time for a Christmas Update alongside the Steam Winter Sale! 

Here’s what you can look forward to in this update:

🎁3 gift box decorations

🎄Christmas tree decorations

🌨️Snowy background (makes it snow!)

❄️Snowy soil

☃️And a special item that grants the “snowy” badge to fishies, making them emit snow particles

We hope you enjoy this fish-massy update and be sure to share your tanks with us on socials so we can all celebrate together 🧑‍🎄

Wishing you all a very merry festive season, and we will be back with more Tiny Aquarium updates in the new year! 🐟

Best fishes,

- Can & Egon from the Lunheim Team

• Added missing tank (oops!)

• Fixed the dark light

• Stinky badge is temporarily made unobtainable due to negative connotation. Will come back as an optional obtainable badge

• Glow badge is rarer

• Fixed some overlapping UI

• Fixed badge VFX positioning

• Added missing description to Shrimp Egg

• Breeding changes have been reverted

• Fixed an issue where mac players could not progress in the tutorial after wiping their save files

• Increased all stack sizes to minimum 60

• Fixed a visual bug where stat visuals of a fish wouldn't match with its actual stats

• Fixed floating genetics not showing when hovering breed button

• Fixed a problem that lead to some species having no visual changes in their unique versions

• Added missing fish lock sound

Something a bit different: this year, Tiny Aquarium is eligible for the Steam Awards, and we’d love your support! 🙏 Since we recently crossed 2,000 reviews, at 97% Overwhelmingly Positive, we figured there’s a good chunk of players having a great time with the game, so we’d really appreciate it if you could help out by voting for us in the Sit Back and Relax category (which feels like it was made for Tiny Aquarium, really!)

🗳️ How to Vote

If you’re keen to get involved, it’s super easy - just go to the Nominate Section at the top of this announcement (or on the Store Page) and nominate us for: Sit Back and Relax! Leaving reviews (or updating old ones) is also super helpful, too!

Whether it's a nomination, a review on the store page, or just giving your time to playing, every bit of support we get means the world to us .💕

Let's make a splash at the Steam Awards together! 🌊

Best fishes,

- Can & Egon from the Lunheim Team

Hey everyone,

We’re really excited to share this update with you today as we’ve been working hard on it for a little while now! 

Welcome to the Swamp!

In this ‘Swamplands’ update you can now explore a whole new fishing area, The Swamp, where you can acquire most of the brand new species. Keep reading for more on these additions from slot machine & fossil decorations to fishy badges and more…

11 New species: 🦀

Snapping turtle

Mudskipper

Dunkleosteus

Chain pickerel

African dwarf frog

Fairy shrimp

Friendly frog

Friendly Shrimp

Tuna

Pufferfish

Baby king crab 

10 New decorations: 🪸

Amazon sword plant

Coral Crown

Elodea

Old Log

Java Fern

Slot machine

Vallisneria (Fishing exclusive)

Boot (Fishing exclusive)

Hornwort (Fishing exclusive)

Ancient Fossil (Fishing exclusive)

New mechanics: 📛

Badges! Fish can now have random badges when they are born. Badges can make them have special effects. Such as the “Dwarfism” badge, which makes fish smaller. Or the “Stinky” badge, which makes them have a swarm of flies following them.

Fish Storage! You can now store excess fish in a storage section, which can be upgraded.

New lobby creation system! Set an icon, limit max players, and the map you wanna fish in.

If you want to read through the full patch notes you can find those here !

We hope you love this update and enjoy exploring our swamp as much as we enjoyed creating it. Be sure to check out the other fabulous titles in Cozy Quest from now until Thursday, as well!

Best fishes,

- Can & Egon from the Lunheim Team

Swamplands is here!

Swamp Map, Badges, Storage & More...

A huge new update is live, bringing a new region, new systems, new species, decorations, and a ton of polish across the game.

NEW FISH & CREATURES

Discover a bunch of new critters, especially in the new Swamp region:

• Snapping Turtle

• Mudskipper

• Dunkleosteus

• Chain Pickerel

• African Dwarf Frog

• Fairy Shrimp

• Friendly Frog

• Friendly Shrimp

• Tuna

• Pufferfish

• Baby King Crab (yes, really)

• Axolotl is now fishable

• +1 New aquarium slot to host all these new aquatic friends!

NEW DECORATIONS

Customize your tanks with fresh decor and a brand-new aquarium:

• Amazon Sword Plant

• Ancient Fossil (Fishing exclusive)

• Coral Crown

• Elodea

• Old Log

• Boot (Fishing exclusive)

• Hornwort (Fishing exclusive)

• Java Fern

• Vallisneria (Fishing exclusive)

• Blue Sand

• Slot Machine

• Not a decoration but now there is also blue sand!

NEW FEATURE: FISH BADGES

Introducing Badges, a brand-new system that gives fish special traits and visuals.

• Fish can now be born with random badges

• Each badge can affect stats, visuals, or behavior

• Badges are visible in the fish list and inspection panels

Examples:

• Dwarfism – fish are smaller as adults

• Stinky – a cloud of flies follows the fish

• Shiny – sparkly VFX flair

This update brings a total of 9 inital badges to the game, more will be added with coming updates.

NEW SYSTEM: FISH STORAGE

You can now store extra fish in a dedicated Storage section:

• Store fish you don’t want active in your main tanks

• Stored fish don’t age, don’t get hungry, and don’t generate revenue

• Storage can be upgraded for more capacity

• New UI elements and icons to manage stored fish more comfortably

NEW FISHING REGION: THE SWAMP

A brand-new Swamp map is now available:

• Home to many of the new species listed above

• Fishing HUD improved: added Fishdex access while fishing

NEW LOBBY CREATION & PLAY OPTIONS

Online and solo play got a facelift:

• New lobby creation screen

• Set lobby icon, max players, and map

• Clearer behavior when joining existing fishing sessions

UI, UX & QUALITY OF LIFE

Lots of usability and clarity improvements:

• Tooltips added to the decoration panel (decorations, lights, backgrounds)

• Perfect Fish indicator added to the inspection panel

• Fishdex entry text improved (e.g. Friendly Gramma description corrected)

• “Show Badges” UI added for the fish list

• Filters now re-apply when switching tabs in the fish list

• Reordering tanks is now supported

• Amount input added when deleting decorations

• Confirmation popup for “Pick Up All”

• Hovering over the breed button shows breeding cooldowns (and plays nice with potions)

• Money formatting improved for shop items

• Item stacks can be combined

• Inventory scrollback moved to the right for better ergonomics

• Storage and inventory icons added/updated where needed

• Tiny Mode now accessible while fishing

AUDIO

• New sound effects for various UI interactions

• Additional SFX for fishing and feedback moments to make the game feel more responsive

• New fishing music for the Swamp region

BALANCING

• Skin prices reduced

• Item stack limits increased across the board

• Bait rewards adjusted per map

• Global special-fish buff to make rare catches feel more rewarding

• Snails slow algae buildup: each snail reduces algae production speed by 10% (10 snails = twice as long to get algae)

Badges and Storage have been introduced with tuned default values so they integrate smoothly into existing progression.

BUG FIXES & POLISH (EXISTING SYSTEMS)

Highlights from many fixes:

• Fixed aquarium thumbnails sometimes showing the wrong tank (e.g. showing a featured aquarium instead of your own)

• Decorations are no longer selectable when you’re not in decoration mode

• Fixed cases where visiting aquariums could show \ as the name

• Fixed issues with visiting via ID vs random visit showing different tanks, and made favorite/first tank behavior consistent

• Jellyfish now properly behave like snails in terms of hunger (they no longer get hungry)

• Green/red placement preview now shows correctly on more decorations

• Fixed quests from upgrades being reset after relaunch

• Fixed “New fish discovered” pop-up sometimes appearing multiple times for the same fish

• Fixed turtle rewards occasionally letting tanks overflow their capacity (e.g. 31/30)

• Fixed tooltips sometimes overflowing off the screen

• Fixed issues with clicking while fishing playing the “tap glass” sound effect

• Fixed a bug where Hundo medals could disappear after selling/deleting the fish; they now behave like discoveries and stay recorded

• Fixed issues when dragging items across inventory pages that could leave a stuck graphic in mid-air

• Fixed various localization issues (incorrect text, missing loc on buttons, wrong tooltip text)

• Fixed multiple rare errors and crashes related to selection, loading aquariums, and saving

🌊 EVENT

The Marine Conservation Event is back and runs until November 30th 🌎💙 Log in, complete event quests, and earn exclusive themed rewards.

If you spot anything odd or have suggestions for badges, storage, or the Swamp, keep the feedback coming. Enjoy the new region, new systems, and all the fresh critters! 🎣🐡 Can & Egon

Hey folks,

We’re super excited to bring this October update your way because if you’re anything like us, you’re already cosying up under blankets, hot cuppa’s in hand, getting ready to deck your space out with pumpkins and scented candles!

So we thought, if we’re doing it in our homes, we better get our tiny aquarium’s looking good too! That’s why we’re bringing you our Halloween update now, so we can celebrate the season together. Here’s what you can look forward to:

1 new fish:

🦴The Magical Bone Fish (which is basically a swimming fish skeleton ahhhh scawy) 

Creep it real with these 7 new Halloween decorations:

👻Ghost lantern

🕸️Cobweb tree

🩻Skeleton hand (see below)

🪦Tombstone

🧪Toxic vat

🧙Witch hat

🎃Jack-o-Lantern

We can’t wait to see your AAAAAH-quariums so be sure to share your creations with us and go trick or treating at each others tanks 👀

Best Witches,

- Can & Egon from the Lunheim Team 

• Fixed an infinite loading screen bug
• Fixed some missing text
• Adjusted online market fish pricing: minimum values are now affected by genetics

• Genetic values are now accurate. (No more fake hundos)
• You can now hold the "Shift" key to quick-sell fish
• Fixed some event issues
• Genetic values are now also displayed as numbers when hovering on the breed button
• Added a floating text for double offspring
• Added join and leave messages for fishing
• Hovering on genetics in the online market now display the actual value
• Fixed a bug where players couldn't close the report aquarium panel
• Adjusted the hitbox of the seabunny
• Increased InstaClean stock from 5 to 10
• Fixed daily rewards not giving turtle
• Fixed fishing spots not disappearing when in an online lobby
• Updated the hundo marker visual

Changes

• Fixed input popups causing a soft lock

• Fixed disappearing mutators

• Fixed trash icon not showing up

• Fixed "FishDex Complete" achievement not triggering

• Fixed missing text for "Mutation Drop"

• Moved snails closer to the glass to avoid clipping with decorations

• Increase Breeding Potion stock 3 -> 5

• Increase Cucumber Slice stock 5 -> 10

• Increase Freshwater Egg stock 5 -> 8

• Increase Oceanic Egg stock 5 -> 8

• Increase Tropical Egg stock 5 -> 8

• Increase Snail Egg stock 3 -> 5

Hey everyone,

It’s been a while since our last post, because we’ve been busy cooking something special for you!

We’re so excited to share our brand-new free Update ‘Shrimplosion’- this one’s for those of you who love tiny pet chaos (and that space shrimp video)!

You can see the famous Shrimp band in action in the trailer below:

Here’s what’s swimming your way:

• 🦐 The Shrimplosion is in town! A legendary music band of 4 shrimps can now be obtained, and will even start playing their hit song once they’re placed in your aquarium. 

• 💰 New shop tab, with a wide array of items (including mutators 👀) and exclusive decorations!

• 🐚 Fishing cosmetics shop, where you can buy cool new ship skins and effects using shells!

• 🐠 15 new fish and shellfish species, including the sea bunny 🐰 (Full list: Blue Crayfish, Amano Shrimp, Babaulti Shrimp, Blue Velvet Shrimp, Crystal Red Shrimp, Ghost Shrimp, Mantis Shrimp, Common Jellyfish, Flying Fish, Sea Bunny, Magical Magmafish, and The Shrimplosion band!).

• 🎁 15 new tank decorations (Full list: Golden Chest, Blue Crystal, Pink Crystal, Runic Stone, Rock Cave, Clay Pot, Moss Balls, Stacked Stones, and 5 New Seaweed and wood Types).

• 🧼 Introducing the Instaclean: a new tank tool that’ll clean your aquarium in one swipe

• 🎉 +1 new aquarium tank!

• 📍 New quests, and a bigger quest pool!

We’ve also had a lot of requests for it, so we’re bringing back the time-limited Axolotl Event! If you didn’t get one before, now is your chance to make your tank that much cuter! ♥️

As always, we would like to extend a huge thank you to our amazing community. Your creations and feedback are always a source of inspiration for our updates 🙂. We can’t wait to see how you customise your tanks, now with tiny concerts!

Best fishes! - Can & Egon from the Lunheim Team 🐙

• Fixed decoration placement issues. (No more colliders)
• Hidden icons in screensaver mode.
• Fixed fish icon displaying non-unique version when fishing a unique.

• Fixed some online fish selling / posting issues.
• Fixed some timed mechanics not resetting on time.
• Fixed popups sometimes glitching.
• Layer of cheat prevention for fishing lobbies.
• Fixed some visual UI issues.
• Fixed soils achievement granting when unlocking all lights.
• Fixed an issue where the "send friend request" button would stay after coming back from fishing.
• Fixed some translation errors.
• Fixed a decoration placement bug.
• Fixed babies not showing genetics when using mutation drops.
• Fixed trash bin icon not showing up on the Steam Deck.
• Fixed some wrong IUCN classifications.
• Fixed baby fish not showing earnings.
• Fixed search filter not reapplying after re-opening the panel.

New Content

New Event!

• The Marine Life Conservation Event is now live until the 11th of August!

  • Release endangered species to gain special currency

  • Hatch 3 new special blue fish

  • Hatch 4 new endangered species from around the world

  • Get cool new decorations

Fish & Eggs

• Added Golden Arowana: rare hatch from Legendary Eggs

• Added 2 new friendly fish

• Added Bubble Dolphin: hatches from new Bubble Eggs (very rare bubble drop)

• Introduced Bubble Eggs

Aquariums & Decorations

• Added 1 new aquarium slot

• New decorations:

  • Sunken Ship (added to shop rotation)

  • Stone Pebble (fishing drop)

  • Golden Pebble (fishing drop)

Supporter Pack

• The supporter pack is now live!

Quality of Life Improvements

Interface & Controls

• Disabled bubbles in tiny mode

• Fishing junk: Renamed "Discard" to "Sell" for clarity

• Removed unreleased fish from the fishdex

• Fishing: Replaced the "Discard" button with a "Sell" button

• When in decoration mode, clicks now prioritize decorations.

• Fixed tiny mode not following mouse correctly when on secondary screen.

• After fishing you can now select the tank to send the fish to.

Inventory & Shop

• Bait stacks now hold up to 20

• Added inventory slot upgrade

Content & Localization

• Fixed typo: "cichild" → "cichlid"

• Featured aquarium rotation changed to hourly

• Banned players no longer appear in featured aquariums

Event & Social

• Online market now shows all fish for sale, not just from current tank

• You can now spend coins to visit a random online seller aquarium

• Fishing lobby ownership now transfers when host leaves

Bug Fixes

UI & Display

• Fixed welcome message to reflect total revenue across all tanks

• Fixed coin icon displaying on new hatchlings

• Fixed incorrect HUD buttons after returning from boat

• Resolved fish image overlay in fishing scenes

• Fixed display issues in windowed and tiny modes

• Corrected rounding error in hot fish stats

• Changed syringe name and image to "drops" to address Trypanophobia

• Updated the icon of snail eggs

• Updated the icon of ship speed upgrade

Fish Management

• Fish names now save correctly to the server

• Mutation syringe genetics now save properly

• Exotic/special fish can no longer be "hot"

• Unique fish can now be properly fished again

• Improved backend validation for fish ownership

Gameplay Mechanics

• Fixed bait not consuming correctly

• Fixed issue where if inventory is full, event coins would get deducted

• Boat level now displays correctly after rejoining lobby

Chat & Audio

• Fixed rich text formatting in chat and loading screens

• Replaced Discord with QQ for SC region players

• Music now plays properly when XP sounds trigger

Hey all!

We want to say a big thank you to all of you who have bought our little game! It’s been amazing to see your creations and hear your thoughts! We now have over 1,000 reviews at 96% Overwhelmingly Positive so we are very pleased and grateful😊 We have now set up a Supporters Pack for those of you who would like to support the game and us as indie devs even more! This pack includes the highly sought after (by our publisher friends) and critically acclaimed (by us) Shell Pedestal, which of course will sparkle and glow and make your tank look extra special for when visitors stop by 🤩

And to celebrate this expansion pack, we've also just rolled out the 1.9 FREE update! You'll find the following:

1.9 Update content:

• 🐟2 new friendly fish species added to the game

• 🥚Golden Arowana: Very rare hatch from the Exotic Eggs.

• 🐬Bubble Eggs & Bubble Dolphin: A new egg that hatches into the Bubble Dolphin. Very rare drop from popping bubbles.

• 🌊+1 new aquarium

• 🚢Sunken ship decoration: New decorative item added to shop rotation

• 🗿Stone pebble and Golden pebble: fishing drop

• ♥️And a bunch of quality of life additions, you can read the full patch notes we sent as a seperate announcement!

• Please note that this update mainly focuses on fixing bugs and introducing some QoL improvements. Our first major content update is still in the works.

And because we're feeling fancy, 🐬The Marine Life Conservation Event is now live until the 11th of August!

• Release endangered species to gain special currency

• Hatch 3 new special blue fish

• Hatch 4 new endangered species from around the world

• Get cool new decorations

We hope you enjoy these additions, and we look forward to seeing your even sparklier tanks!

Best fishes! - Can & Egon from the Lunheim Team 🐙

• Fixed a bug that prevented some players from playing the game after the event ended.

Fixes

• Sound settings now load correctly on startup.
• Maxed-out fertility gene now reduces breeding time by 25% instead of 50%.
• Removed the visit random button when visiting someone while fishing.
• Disabled changing your name and fish color via rich text (will return later as proper features).
• Fixed achievements for best and worst genetics on fish.
• Patched a rounding issue for 99s. Some fish might visually switch from 99 to 100 or 100 to 99 (no change to the actual genetic value, only how it's displayed).
• Buying fish online during a failed transaction no longer makes shells disappear until a restart.
• Improved snail movement.