Bring your first bowl back to life
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Your first goal is to help Pip restart the bowl, then reach Emerald Gardens. Keep returning to the surface for air until the filter works, and use the blue console to start each timed test.
Keep an eye on oxygen
The bowl begins without a working filter. Rise to the waterline to refill oxygen, then dive back to the task. If oxygen runs out, the current aquarium starts over, so leave time to get back up.
Look for the broken filter fixture. Hold F or Help beside it without swimming away. Once it is repaired, its bubbles return and oxygen refills underwater.
Start a test before chasing targets
To jump through a surface ring, rise first and press jump at the waterline. A jump from the floor will not reach the air. When chasing fry, aim ahead of their turns rather than tracing the same route behind them.
- 1Talk to Pip while nearby and still.
- 2Go to the blue console and press F when the task is timed.
- 3Eat food or fry by touching them; pass rings in their shown order.
- 4If the timer expires, return to the console and retry.
Finish the repairs, then search
The clam stays shut until the required tests and all four fixtures are complete. Repair the filter, lookout, cottage and lanterns. There is no clam waypoint: explore around the bowl and look near the bottom.
The first golden pearl grants Strong Tail. Finish the aquarium's final gate task to unlock the next place and more playable fish. Optional trial medals are a separate collection and do not replace story tasks.
Share the work in a lobby
Up to four people can restore the story together from a friends lobby. You can collect different targets in the same attempt and help with different repairs. Each fish still needs its own air until the filter runs.
The host controls travel and optional trial selection. Co-op uses a separate browser checkpoint from solo, so starting a team journey does not overwrite your own bowl.
Questions
- Why is my oxygen falling?
- The air filter has not been repaired in this aquarium. Reach the surface to refill it, then restore the filter.
- Why is the clam still closed?
- Finish the aquarium's required tests and restore all four fixtures before looking for the pearl.
- Does the first bowl have attacking fish?
- No. Larger fish that occasionally attack appear in later aquariums.
- Can friends help with my story?
- Friends can play a shared co-op story from the lobby. Its checkpoint is separate from your solo journey.

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