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A player diving in his aquarium
The Aquarium is a room in a player-owned house where players can showcase their Fishing skill. Building a Aquarium requires level 63 Construction and 200,000 coins. The room was suggested on the forums and chosen by players in a Player Power poll. The Aquarium can only be built on the ground level, and has 4 doors.
An aquarium on the ground level
There are five types of hotspots available and special objects for underwater usage:
- Centrepiece wall - Scenery.
- Diving suit - An outfit that allows certain daily and weekly rewards to be collected.
- Supply - Scenery.
- Prawnbroker - Location and type of shack the Prawnbroker resides in.
- Fish-head - Scenery similar to the big fish in the Skill Hall.
- Underwater - Scenery and rewards accessible through certain diving suits.
Fish
Every 25,000 life points worth of fish fished, the player will receive either a prawn ball or prawn cracker. The prawn balls can be opened by one player, while the crackers have to be used on another player, and both will get a reward. Once in a while when fishing (on average, about every 3 hours), you will receive a golden fish egg of the type you are fishing, so long as you don't already have that egg. You can also get golden fish eggs from prawn balls or crackers, from golden prawn crackers, from the Motherlode Maw, or once from the Prawnbroker. Players may toggle the option to receive prawn balls while fishing by talking to the Prawnbroker.
There are fourteen golden fish eggs to collect, and you can put the eggs in the bathysphere to make a fish appear in your aquarium. Each egg collected will let you unlock one of the fifteen prawn perks at the Prawnbroker. You can also get four more prawn perks by collecting 1, 20, 100 and 200 prawn balls. Unlocking all 15 prawn perks is a requirement for the completionist cape, and collecting all 18 prawn perks is a requirement for the trimmed completionist cape.
Optimal order for the most Prawn balls
Because you receive prawn balls for every 25,000 life points worth of fish, you should generally catch fish that give the highest life points per hour, until you've received that egg, and then potentially move on to the next best. This table lists the 14 fish approximately in order of life points fished per hour at 99 Fishing.
| Leaping Sturgeon - Golden Sturgeon Eggs
Leaping Salmon/Trout - Golden Leaping salmon/trout eggs |
| Monkfish - Golden monkfish eggs |
| Swordfish/Tuna - Golden swordfish/tuna eggs |
| Lobster - Golden lobster eggs |
| Salmon/Trout - Golden salmon/trout eggs |
| Shark - Golden shark eggs |
| Lava Eel - Golden lava eel eggs |
| Rocktail - Golden rocktail eggs |
| Cavefish - Golden cavefish eggs |
| Rainbow fish - Golden rainbow fish eggs |
Decorations
Some decorations are included with the Aquarium by default and some must be obtained from prawn balls and from fishing. Before you can use new decorations you must add them to your Bathysphere by clicking on them and then clicking on the Bathysphere.
Aboveground
Bathysphere
The bathysphere is an uncustomisable part of the surface level of the Aquarium. It allows the player to traverse down into the underwater portion of the Aquarium. When activated through building mode, the bathysphere allows access to the customization interface for the underwater portion of the aquarium. The maximum number of objects that can be placed inside the aquarium is 30.
Centrepiece wall
| Centrepiece | Level | Materials | Experience | Cost | |
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Maps | 66 | Mahogany plank, Message in a bottle | 240 | 1,321 |
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Shark jaw | 71 | Mahogany plank, Shark jawbone | 240 | 1,321 |
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Figurehead | 78 | Mahogany plank, Ship figurehead | 240 | 1,321 |
Diving suit
While a diving suit is not required to enter the underwater aquarium, better suits let players open better decorations. The oyster hunter suit lets players open oysters, the mermaid hunter suit lets players additionally open Mermaid's purse decorations, and the Salvage hunter suit lets players additionally open Treasure chest decorations.
| Diving Suit | Level | Materials | Experience | Cost | |
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Oyster hunter suit | 63 | 5 bronze bars, fishbowl | 7 | 5,824 |
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Mermaid hunter suit | 72 | 5 bronze bars, fishbowl, porthole | 107 | 5,824 |
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Salvage hunter suit | 80 | 5 bronze bars, fishbowl, telescope lenses | 107 | 5,824 |
Supply
| Decoration | Level | Materials | Experience | Cost | |
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Fishing net | 64 | 5 Wool, Rope | 6 | 3,056 |
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Twin anchors | 69 | 5 Iron bars, Rope | 54 | 5,666 |
| File:Bait barrel.png | Bait barrel | 74 | 4 Mahogany planks, 100 fishing bait | 577 | 5,784 |
Prawnbroker
The prawnbroker lets players unlock prawn perks, which improve Fishing in a variety of ways. You can also toggle the passive prawn perks effects and prawn ball drops with the prawnbroker, or cash in unused perks for 10,000 Fishing experience.
| Prawnbroker | Level | Materials | Experience | Cost | |
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| File:Driftwood prawnbrokers.png | Driftwood prawnbrokers | 63 | 8 Teak planks | 720 | 2,976 |
| File:Flotsam prawnbrokers.png | Flotsam prawnbrokers | 73 | 8 Mahogany planks | 1120 | 10,568 |
| File:Boutique prawnbrokers.png | Boutique prawnbrokers | 81 | 8 Mahogany planks, 1 porthole | 1220 | 10,568 |
Fish-head
| Fish | Level | Materials | Experience | Cost | |
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Mounted swordfish | 65 | Mahogany plank, Raw swordfish | 157.5 | 1,662 |
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Mounted shark | 70 | 1 Mahogany plank, 1 Raw shark | 157.5 | 2,748 |
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Mounted great white shark | 76 | 1 Mahogany plank, 1 Raw great white shark | 157.5 | 3,172 |
Underwater
The underwater portion of the Aquarium is uniquely different from the rest of Construction. It has its own hotspot creation tool where items are obtained from prawn balls and prawn crackers or obtained by default. Items removed using the right-click option on the aquarium construction screen are not destroyed but sent back into your pool of buildable items.
Cosmetic
- Anchor (from prawn ball)
- Big stone head (from prawn ball)
- Cannon (from prawn ball)
- Coral reef
- Cracked pots
- Boot
- Rocks
- Ship bow
- Ship stern
- Cannon
- Anchor
- Castle
Rewardable
- Seaweed and kelp can be retrieved every 24 hours for minimal Farming experience and two of each item.
- Oysters can be opened every 24 hours if a player has built the Oyster hunter suit or better. It has access to oyster pearls and the Prifddinas gem-rock table.
- Mermaid's purse decorations can be opened every week for 20 mahogany or teak planks if the player has built the mermaid hunter suit or better.
- Treasure chests can be opened every week for one clue scroll (elite) if the player has built the salvage hunter suit and does not already have a clue scroll.
Experience
Experience decorations increase the chance of finding golden fish eggs at certain fishing spots. They also increase the experience given at those fishing spots by 2%.
Perks
Tier 1 Perks
- Greater chance of receiving Prawn Balls
- No-Bait fishing
- 10 Prawn Pennies
- Gain a landmark of your choice
Tier 2 Perks
- Golden Mystery Egg
Tier 3 Perks
- Greater chance of receiving Prawn Balls
- Fly fishing without feathers
- Prawn Pennies and Prawn Pounds last 2x as long
- Gain 3 diving suit cosmetic overrides for the surface
Tier 4 Perks
- Golden Cracker
Tier 5 Perks
- Greater chance of receiving Prawn Balls
- Barbarian fishing without bait or feathers
- Great White Shark Pet and Great White Shark in your aquarium
- Ability to fish Great White Sharks from shark fishing spots
Tier 6 Perks
- Ability to make Sushi
Prestige
Once the Aquarium has been filled with all fourteen fish, the Standard plug decoration can be used. It will reset the Aquarium's caught fish but the Prawn Perks will not be reset. Each caught golden fish egg returned to the Aquarium will give a medium experience lamp for Fishing. There are warning messages to ensure that the player understands what will happen by using the plug to prestige.
The first prestige will give the player a fishing animation where the fish are silver coloured and the plug can be replaced with a Chinchompa plug. The second prestige will give the player a fishing animation where the fish are gold coloured and the plug can be replaced by a Stone of Jas plug.
Design document
On 23 February 2015 a design document for the Aquarium was released. It expanded on the perks, going into the collection of prawn balls and prawn crackers, as well as detailing the decorations available for both the surface and underwater aquarium, which may be unlocked from the prawn items.
The aquarium will also introduce the Great white shark, which will be an ingredient for a new food item - sushi. There will be 2 types of sushi, Great Maki and Great Gunkan, requiring seaweed with level 84 Cooking, and kelp with level 91 Cooking, respectively.
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