What would be your Aquatic Expansion roster?

I feel like this isn't a very good fish selection, I do not know much about fish ahahah, I'd love to hear what you guys think could be better):
  1. White-spotted bambooshark
  2. Ribbon moray
  3. Clown anemonefish
  4. Blackspotted puffer
  5. Yellow tang
  6. Humphead wrasse
  7. Spotted garden eel
  8. Atlantic octopus
  9. Spotted jellyfish
  10. Vampire crab
Better Saltwater Fish Selection than mine though 🙃
🤔 Can Vampire Crabs even swim/breathe underwater?
 
Better Saltwater Fish Selection than mine though 🙃
🤔 Can Vampire Crabs even swim/breathe underwater?
Oh, I was thinking they could get a lil terrarium exhibit with some shallow water for them. I would also have added some small freshwater fish to accompany them but I played around with what I had. Vampire crabs can spend time underwater, but they need land areas to breathe and stuff.
 
Habitat animals:
  1. Atlantic bottlenose dolphin
  2. Beluga
  3. Pacific walrus
  4. Northern sea otter
  5. Antillean manatee
  6. Western rockhopper penguin
  7. Great white pelican
  8. Baer's pochard
  9. Hawaiian goose
  10. Hawksbill sea turtle
  11. Red-eared slider
  12. Sand tiger shark
  13. Zebra shark
  14. Cownose ray
  15. Giant grouper
  16. Koi
  17. Arapaima
  18. Pacu
  19. Red-tailed catfish
  20. Alligator gar
Exhibit animals (A new aquarium system would be added to the game to be expanded on future DLCs and/or Updates. It would consist of a vastly customizable set of different sized and shaped aquariums where you can mix in several species or keep them by themselves. I feel like this isn't a very good fish selection, I do not know much about fish ahahah, I'd love to hear what you guys think could be better):
  1. White-spotted bambooshark
  2. Ribbon moray
  3. Clown anemonefish
  4. Blackspotted puffer
  5. Yellow tang
  6. Humphead wrasse
  7. Spotted garden eel
  8. Atlantic octopus
  9. Spotted jellyfish
  10. Vampire crab
On the note of fish , most people would imagine there should be a fine collection of colorful tropical fish along with biome specific fish

tropical tank Small fish:
  • Clownfish
  • Blue/Yellow Tang
  • Angelfish
  • Cardinalfish
  • Surgeonfish
  • Butterflyfish
Other fish:
  • Piranha
  • Koi
  • Arapaima
  • West African lungfish
  • Catfish
  • Arowana
  • Sturgeon/ salmon
  • Grouper
 
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On the note of fish , most people would imagine there should be a fine election of colorful tropical fish along with biome specific fish

tropical tank Small fish:
  • Clownfish
  • Blue/Yellow Tang
  • Angelfish
  • Cardinalfish
  • Surgeonfish
  • Butterflyfish
Other fish:
  • Piranha
  • Koi
  • Arapaima
  • West African lungfish
  • Catfish
  • Arowana
  • Sturgeon/ salmon
  • Grouper
Think so too. Just want so many other Animals too and couldn't really think of many Saltwater Fish besides the big ones when I wrote my List
 
Red-bellied pirañas are a must-have in case we get an aquarium expansion in my opinion, and I'd love to see some mudskippers too.
Edit: I understated how BIG humphead wrasses are, so swap those with Atlantic mudskippers ahahah.
 
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  • Whale Shark (EN)
  • Giant Oceanic Manta Ray (EN)
  • Ocean Sunfish (VU)
  • Humphead Wrasse (EN) [exhibit]
  • Atlantic Goliath Grouper (VU)
  • Great Hammerhead (CR)
  • Leatherback Sea Turtle (VU)
  • Walrus (VU)
  • Southern Elephant Seal (LC)
  • Beluga whale (LC)
  • Picasso Triggerfish [exhibit]
  • Peacock Mantis Shrimp [exhibit]
  • Bottlenose Dolphin (LC)
  • Yangtze Giant Softshell Turtle (CR)
  • Chinese Giant Salamander (CR) [exhibit]
  • Sea Otter (EN)
  • Longcomb Sawfish (CR)
  • Common Seadragon (LC) [exhibit]
  • West Indian Manatee (VU)
  • Mata Mata (LC) [exhibit]
  • Alligator snapping turtle (VU) [exhibit]
  • Blue-footed Booby (LC) [walkthrough]
  • Atlantic Puffin (VU) [walkthrough]
  • Dalmatian Pelican (NT)
  • Leopard Seal (LC)
  • King Eider (LC)
  • Starfish spp [exhibit]
  • Marine Iguana (VU)
  • Giant Mudskipper (LC) [exhibit]
 
Here goes:
  1. Sandtiger Shark
  2. Nurse Shark
  3. Wobbegong Shark
  4. Largetooth/Common Sawfish
  5. Manta Ray
  6. Southern Stingray
  7. Cownose Stingray
  8. Harbor Seal
  9. Leopard Seal
  10. Australian Sea Lion
  11. Pacific Walrus
  12. Northern Sea Otter
  13. Bottlenose Dolphin
  14. Orca
  15. Beluga
  16. West Indian Manatee
  17. Green Sea Turtle
  18. Loggerhead Sea Turtle
  19. Green Moray Eel
  20. Leafy Sea Dragon
  21. Weedy Sea Dragon
  22. Pacific Octopus
  23. Lionfish
  24. Goliath Grouper
  25. Horseshoe Crab
  26. Adélie Penguin
  27. Chinstrap Penguin
  28. Rockhopper Penguin
  29. Brown Pelican
  30. Atlantic Puffin
 
Big Tank Animals
1.- Tuna
2.- Manta Ray
3.- Merlin
4.- Moray Eel
6.- Barracuda
7.- Green Turtle
8.- Leatherback Turtle
9.- Great White Shark
10.- Tiger Shark
11.- Hammerhead Shark
12.- Whale Shark
13.- Amazon pink Dolphin
14.- Beluga
15.- Narwal
16.- Manatee
17.- Dolphin
18.- Orca
19.- Sperm Whale
20.- Giant Squid

Smaller Tank Animals
21.- Red Belly Piranha
22.- Leafy Seadragon
23.- King Crab
24.- Horshoe Crab
25.- Mantis Shrip
26.- Giant Pacific Octopus
27.- Cuttlefish
28.- Nautilus
29.- Green Anaconda
30.- Electric Eel
 
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Wow 30 that's generous! Here I come!

Sharks
  • Mako Shark
  • Tiger Shark
  • Whale Shark
  • Hammer head Shark
  • Bull Shark

Cetacean
  • Beluga
  • Bottle Nose Dolphin
  • Chinese Pink Dolphin
  • Orca
  • Amazon River Dolphin
  • pilot Whale
  • Commersons dolphin

Pinnipeds
  • Walrus
  • Elephant Seal
  • Leopard Seal
  • Steller Sealion
  • Harbour Seal

Other
  • Sea Otter
  • Manatee
  • Green sea turtle

Exhibit (Fish)
  • Octopus
  • giant grouper
  • Clown Fish
  • Bluefin Tuna
  • Bream
  • Chinese Sturgeon
  • Lion Fish
  • Alaskan King Crab
  • Goldfish
  • Sea horse

Oh actually 30 is not enough. In terms of large specie I think what I post is good enough. In terms of fish, I want much more, I dont even mind if they are exhibit only.
 
  1. West Indian Manatee
  2. Alligator Gar
  3. Arapaima
  4. Australian Lungfish
  5. Wels Catfish
  6. Clown featherback
  7. Arrowana (any species)
  8. Pacu (any species)
  9. Sturgeon (any species)
  10. Brown Pelican
  11. Shovelnose Guitarfish
  12. Sea Otter
  13. Nurse Shark
  14. Zebra Shark
  15. Common Bottlenose Dolphin
  16. Black-tip Reef Shark
  17. Loggerhead Sea Turtle
  18. Grouper (any large species)
  19. Cow-nose Ray
  20. Rockhopper Penguin (any large species)
Now here comes the exhibit species:
  1. Five species of compatible coral reef fish that could be added in a mixed species tank
  2. Lobster (any species)
  3. Rainbowfish (any species)
  4. La Palma Pupfish
  5. Hermit Crab (any species)
  6. Tiger Oscar
I am not too knowlegeable with fish but here's my prefered list of fish. I was hessitant to add the sea otter and penguin but since I don't know much about marine fish and wanted 10 exact marine animals I had to use them as fillers. I wanted to add the common snapping turtle but I wouldn't have known if frontier would treat it as a habitat animal or an exhibit animal. I also tried to have multiple cetaceans since having one would rustle a lot of jimmies already.
 
My mindset is this: it's preferable but unrealistic for Frontier to produce every species the community wants. So if they cover all of the bases with rigging and animation (for modding purposes) that could potentially suit a large number of animals (like one shark species, one octopus species, one small fish, one ray species, etc.) then I'm happy with that. Seeing as this could also be somewhat limiting, I would also like to float the idea of an animal maker's toolkit and a theme maker's toolkit for Planet Zoo- essentially giving official support to modding will extend the lifetime of the game exponentially in the absence of new DLCs. I don't see them stopping any time soon but if they decided it was no longer profitable or that the developers were getting bored with it this would be a good way of keeping things going for a VERY long time.

I don't know enough about what kinds of fish are common in zoos and whatnot so I'll just stick to fish I've personally encountered in zoos and aquariums. Habitat animals:

1. Sandbar Shark
2. West Indian Manatee
3. Round Stingray
4. Green Sea Turtle
5. Scalloped Hammerhead Shark
6. American Brown Pelican
7. Arapaima
8. Red-Bellied Pacu
9. Cownose Ray
10. Marine Iguana

Though the possible number of small fish is pretty much infinite, definitely larger than possible number of terrestrial exhibit creatures, the exhibits:

11. Clownfish
12. Giant Octopus
13. Blue Tang
14. Lionfish
15. Panda Angelfish
16. Moray Eel
17. Spotted Garden Eel
18. Some kind of crab

I will probably push the fish thing until the day they drop the game because I do consider it essentially important to zoos, perhaps even more than flying birds. Number one, there is no mechanical difference for exhibit aquatics, and secondly habitat aquatics would only require a way for keepers to enter tank habitats and some additional enrichment items, and feeders and coral for aquatic animals like sharks. That's all I can really imagine there being to it. I can see there potentially being an issue in that many exhibit aquarium species are kept together, but they solved that for the butterflies so I'm sure it won't be a terrible issue. It would also be ideal if they gave options for significantly smaller exhibit sizes with different shapes as well, and I'm sure most players would agree that the exhibits needed an overhaul yesterday, but that is a different discussion. To sum up my feelings on the matter, personally it's really disappointing to see Frontier every DLC continue to add more and more terrestrial animals that do little to change the experience of the game (though they are awesome and do add a lot of variety) when they could spend that time working on things that would be literal game changers, like aviaries and aquariums. I do think they'll get around to it at the end of the day, but it's kinda concerning how far they're into this without any fish. I guess it might just be my expectations that are causing the disconnect but the first few DLCs felt really essential when it came to experience changing animals and I figured they would continue with that as it went on- I love the SEA pack but I think that marked the point when I realized that it's less about fundamentally adding more to the game and more about just adding new content generally, which is not the way I would prefer for things to go.
 
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My roster:
  1. Great Hammerhead.
  2. Great White Shark.
  3. Ragged - Tooth Shark.
  4. Whale Shark.
  5. Dwarf Lantern Shark.
  6. Whitetip Reef Shark.
  7. Tasselled Wobbegong.
  8. Blue Shark.
  9. Lemon Shark.
  10. Bonnethead Shark.
  11. Tiger Shark.
  12. Manta Ray.
  13. Arapaima.
  14. Colossal Squid.
  15. Snowflake Moray Eel.
  16. Black Piranha.
  17. Red Piranha.
  18. Blue Groper.
  19. Wels Catfish.
  20. Rainbow Trout.
  21. Tiger Barb.
  22. Tambaqui.
  23. Yellowfin Tuna.
  24. Swordfish.
  25. Striped Marlin.
  26. Giant Freshwater Stingray.
  27. Giant Damselfish.
  28. Trout Cod.
  29. Electric Blue Ram.
  30. Goliath Tigerfish.
 
1. West-Indian manatee
2. Bottlenose dolphin
3. Orca
4. Beluga
5. Amazon river dolphin
6. Green sea turtle
7. Blacktip reef shark
8. Great hammerhead shark
9. Whale shark
10. Spotted wobbegong
11. Manta ray
12. Spotted eagle ray
13. Giant stingray
14. Arapaima
15. Electric eel
16. Great barracuda
17. Beluga sturgeon
18. Humphead wrasse
19. Goliath Grouper
20. Moray eel
21. Green sawfish
22. Giant Sunfish
23. Blue Marlin
24. Leafy Seadragon(E)
25. Clownfish(E)
26. Blue tang(E)
27. Japanese giant spider crab(E)
28. Moon Jellyfish(E)
29. Archerfish(E)
30. Red bellied piranha(E)
 
You get to decide the roster for a full on aquatic expansion.

The rules
  • You get 30 animal slots
  • All animals are valid, from tiny fish, to sharks to cetaceans to otters, long as they are (mostly) aquatic
  • For the sake of the exercise, corals, anemones, sponges and the like are not considered animals
  • Assume the existance of aquatic mechanics
  • Try to make the expansion coherent, varied and useful
1. West Indian manatees
2. Green sea turtle
3. Black tip reef shark
4. Arapaima
5. Red bellied piranha
6. Red tailed catfish
7. Electric eel
8. Ocellated sting grey
9. Manta Ray
10. Clown fish
11. Reef butterflyfish
12. Queen angerfish
13. Lion fish
14. Pufferfish
15. Goliath Grouper
16. Spotted eagle Ray
17. Zebra shark
18. Amazonia river dolphin
19. Blue ringed Octopus
20. Giant pacific Octopus
21. Hermit crab
22. King crab
23. Starfish variety
24. Coral variety
25. Anemone variety
26. Mandarín fish
27. Archer fish
28. Jellyfish variety
29. Cuttlefish
30. Great hammerhead shark

If starfish, jellyfish, corals and anemones would be consider scenery then i'll select some replacements.
 
1. West Indian manatees
2. Green sea turtle
3. Black tip reef shark
4. Arapaima
5. Red bellied piranha
6. Red tailed catfish
7. Electric eel
8. Ocellated sting grey
9. Manta Ray
10. Clown fish
11. Reef butterflyfish
12. Queen angerfish
13. Lion fish
14. Pufferfish
15. Goliath Grouper
16. Spotted eagle Ray
17. Zebra shark
18. Amazonia river dolphin
19. Blue ringed Octopus
20. Giant pacific Octopus
21. Hermit crab
22. King crab
23. Starfish variety
24. Coral variety
25. Anemone variety
26. Mandarín fish
27. Archer fish
28. Jellyfish variety
29. Cuttlefish
30. Great hammerhead shark

If starfish, jellyfish, corals and anemones would be consider scenery then i'll select some replacements.
Ok i re-read the rules. Si they are not animals for the purpose of this list so my replacements for them are:

Moorish Idol
Any seahorse
Blue tang
Moray eel
 
I think a pack of 30 fish would basically completely set us up honestly for having small aquaria around our zoos. Here is a pack I made which has 30 "basic" aquarium fish.

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