Any tips for underwater environments?
- Thread starter Ozian
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You can use Moss as Algae. Some sunken Pieces of Wood can also make it look very nice (now that I think about it, the dead Pine Trees could be used to make a nice flooded Forest). Also use some Rocks. The Pygmy Hippo Enclosure in one of my Zoos has the Strangler Fig Roots growing out of the Backwall of the Underwater Viewing Area
Truth be told we don't have many suitable aquatic plants or pieces. I don't believe we've gotten any since the Aquatic pack well over a year ago now
I made a gorgeous hippo lake with an underwater viewing area for guests. I was so proud of it. It was the first time I felt I got the rocks and weeds looking right in an underwater habitat. Then I placed the hippos and found out they didn't have enough space (even though they should have). Turned out they can't traverse surfaces with rocks or plants on the bottom of their habitat! Hippos "walk" underwater rather than swimming, and for whatever reason the game feels they can't walk on rocks or plants, even if they are in water.
I was bummed! Had to pull most of the underwater decorations out of the habitat. So be careful with "furnishing" underwater habitats. This is less of an issue with animals that only swim, of course.
Some people have done some nice things with some of those leafier water plants by stringing them together to look more like kelp or taller water weeds. Wish they'd included actual kelp with the North America pack, though. Would be more realistic for the sea lions, and the color of the fake kelp I made with those Asian water weeds is too green, and of course the plant itself lists as not appropriate.
You can also make fake coral with those underwater branch thingies and coloring them appropriately.
I was bummed! Had to pull most of the underwater decorations out of the habitat. So be careful with "furnishing" underwater habitats. This is less of an issue with animals that only swim, of course.
Some people have done some nice things with some of those leafier water plants by stringing them together to look more like kelp or taller water weeds. Wish they'd included actual kelp with the North America pack, though. Would be more realistic for the sea lions, and the color of the fake kelp I made with those Asian water weeds is too green, and of course the plant itself lists as not appropriate.
You can also make fake coral with those underwater branch thingies and coloring them appropriately.
I do agree with the Kelp. It's a Shame Frontier just used a Fake Kelp Plant in the North America Pack Trailer instead of giving us a real one
It's not a hippo habitat, but I used boats and stuff to recreate an old smuggler post for my seal habitat
