Mineral Filled Water for Flamingos

[RedPandaReggie]

Flamingos get their colour from the carotenoids in their food which is brine shrimp and algae in the salty water that the feed in. If we could get the ability to build a salty marsh full of brine shrimp and algae, then providing nutrition for flamingos in the game would be much easier. If we had the ability to put down the rich water for the flamingos, it would be easier to create realistic flamingo habitats without requiring the forage pool, then the shallow water will allow the natural foraging behaviours of the flamingos.

If we could get this, that would be awesome, especially if we were to get a new flamingo, the American Flamingo preferably, for the 4 year anniversary that would be good.

 

[Firestar97]

Someone suggested some Kind of Pump once that fills the Water with Food. Might work similar to how the Filters are implemented

 

[RedPandaReggie]

Someone suggested some Kind of Pump once that fills the Water with Food. Might work similar to how the Filters are implemented

That would interesting, but I don't know if we could get a filter small enough. The only drawback I see from that idea is the flamingos would only interact in the area of that feeder. If my idea came true, the flamingos would forage the whole body of water.

 

[arafan]

Don't most of the zoos actually have something similar to the forage pool we have in game? On the other hand, most of the flamingos nowadays are fed with pellets anyway, so I'd rather see some other things first.

 

[CounselorCloud]

I feel like that would be a good idea, especially since the forage pool only helps up to like 12 flamingos comfortably (estimation based off memory, 14 made the enrichment go down) and that is the ONLY food enrichment they have in the game for them. It takes up lots of space and having more than 12 flamingos sucks, especially since the game says there can be up to 500 (obviously that is WAY too many, but it would require so many of those bulky pools).