Everyone knows by now that the Mystery Lab is rigged and would not give you all the breeds you need to win the breeding trophies. I have been waiting for the "Spotted Tail Cardinal" but it seems impossible. Well, you can see that my tank is full of duplicated cardinals when I tried to do it the normal route.
Here is how you can beat the system to get what you wanted.
You will need to spend 12 fish bucks. Thank you to Kathleen Harvey for the update Info in the comment section, you WILL NOT need to spend 12 fish bucks. Basically, you will need to use the
Peek 'n Restore Method. Don't forget to catch my post on
Earning Unlimited Fish Bucks
to help you make all the fish bucks that you will ever need.
Step 1: Make sure your game is in a healthy state (all fishes are fed, etc). Now close the game. Tapfish will save your game session, which includes (cleaning, feeding, etc) once you close the game. Now, Open the game again.
Step 2: Open your Mystery Lab Tank and put in the parent fishes that you would like to breed and tap "breed". Since it is a mystery tank so you NORMALLY won't know what kind of bred you will get until 3 days later; which often would turned out disappointing to get a duplicate bred from what you have before or among the current batch. Well, we will work around that in this trick. Now close the game. Tapfish will save your game session, which is specific to breeding the parents once you close the game.
Step 3: Now, Open the game again. Tap the "Speed Up" button. Once you have confirmed, Tapfish will APPEAR to deduct 12 fish bucks and shows you the bred. Don't panic, restore the game and your fish buck will be credit back. Basically, what you have done so far is speed up the breeding, take a peek to see what kind of bred you are getting and then restore the game up to the "Speed Up" action so your fish bucks are refunded.
Step 4: If you don't see the bred you like then just "cancel" the breeding tank and repeat Step 2-4 until you get the bred you like. I tried 15 times to finally get my trophy. To restore the game: Open the "My Aquarium" menu and tap on the "About Tapfish" on the bottom left corner of the menu. If you don't know where is the menu, refer to my earlier post:
Beating spin-to-win mini game.html.
Once you got all the breeds for a particular category, Tapfish will award you some fish points that you can claim. In the case of the Dancing Cardinals, the reward 10 fish bucks. There are other Limited Breedable Prizes worth 15 fish bucks.
Last but not least, you can use this technique to peek into all of your Mystery Tanks to make sure you are not getting any duplicate within the batch (I like to breed all the tanks at once). Have fun breeding!
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ReplyDeleteThank you Kathleen. Very nice trick!
ReplyDeleteNice trick indeed. I just purchased 5 new Mystery tanks this weekend while they were on sale to make it easier to eventually complete these trophies. I've been needing one more Cardinal (Android Tap Fish) for a while and had my 13 total tanks set for just this one fish.
ReplyDeleteI used the "sneak peak" to check them all out and none had the fish I needed. Needless to say, I reset them, peaked again, found the one I needed, and repeated to fill the remaining tanks with other Mystery offspring that I needed.
So thanks for the tip. It's going to save me a lot of time. Especially since I wasn't planning on using Fish Bucks to pull off Trisha's original trick. It's a good idea though, I'm just tight with my Fish Bucks :)
That's not fair, I had to spend 12 bucks for the last cardinal :)
ReplyDeleteI am going to update this post, just in case someone missed the comment section and spent the 12 bucks like me.
Think of it as an investment. If you hadn't experimented and shared your results with others, we (and any other readers) would still be in the dark, spending the 12 Fish Bucks, or collecting tanks full of duplicate fish.
ReplyDeleteYou blazed the trail and made it easier for others. It won't get your Fish Bucks back but thanks.
I'm waiting to see if this works the same with the mystery tanks as it does with the regular breeding tanks, but on my IPod, after I hit the breed button, the heart that shows up has 2 different amounts of time it stays up for, one is very short, less than a second, and the other is longer, 2-3 seconds, but a quite noticeable difference. When the heart stays up for LONGER, the resulting bred fish is one I already have (or even one that I already have being bred in another tank. If this works with the mystery tanks, it would let you know if the planned offspring were one you already had or were in the process of getting, or if it was one that you were missing. It won't tell you what it is, but at least you'd know if it were a duplicate without having to go through the time of closing, opening, speeding, and restoring....
ReplyDeleteThis would be interesting if the long vs. short heart duration equated to the offspring being a duplicate or not. I would still use the method posted here to verify my mystery tanks but for those lacking the required fish bucks, this would be very helpful.
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