Drawquarium Feed Fish: Feeding Controls, Growth, and Diets

To feed fish in Drawquarium, select the yellow fish icon beneath the top-left menu and click inside the tank to drop food. Feeding satisfies hungry creatures once daily, accelerates their physical growth from babies into adults, and prevents them from becoming sad.

How to Drop Food and Select Diets

Accessing the feeding mechanic takes a single click during standard tank observation. The feeding tool appears as a yellow fish symbol positioned directly underneath the white plus icon in the upper-left corner of the interface. Selecting this tool arms the cursor with fish food. Clicking anywhere in the water drops food pellets into the tank, where gravity causes them to drift down through the water column.

Fish notice floating nourishment and alter their swimming trajectory to consume it. When you draw fish from scratch or select existing presets, each creature spawns with an appetite. Dropping food directly above their path allows them to intercept it before it settles at the bottom of the tank.

The game provides various food options to drop into the water, ranging from basic flakes and pellets to worms, burgers, and pizza slices. Players can even custom-paint pizza meals inside the creation tools. Once every creature in the habitat has eaten its portion, the interface confirms that there are no more hungry fish remaining.

Fish Growth, Daily Schedules, and Care Rules

Newly introduced fish enter the aquarium as small babies. Feeding them regularly triggers progressive physical growth, expanding their size across subsequent play sessions. As these creatures grow and thrive, caring for them yields golden scales, which serve as currency to obtain extra decorations, brushes, and tank accessories.

Each fish operates on an approximate 24-hour feeding schedule. When inspecting individual creatures, the game tracks their age in days and notes their feeding status. If a scheduled feeding window passes without food, fish do not die. In a Steam community forum discussion, developer Listoric confirmed that unfed fish simply become sad rather than expiring, and announced an immortal setting for stress-free care.

Keeping a steady routine supports positive behaviors, as well-fed creatures form fish relationships with their tank companions, including friendships, pairings, and occasional rivalries. Leftover food that drifts past your pets settles onto the sand substrate. An aquarium vacuum tool lets you clean accumulated food waste and debris to maintain a tidy tank.

Feeding Behaviors Across Different Fish Types

Different swimming behaviors determine how effectively individual pets reach drifting meals. Players assign movement styles during fish creation, dictating the layer of the tank where each creature spends its time. Matching food drop placement to these behaviors prevents food from sinking untouched.

Active swimmers chase down sinking items quickly, whereas bottom-dwelling creatures wait for food to reach the lower gravel. If a bottom dweller appears to ignore pellets dropped near the surface, clicking near the tank floor helps the food land within its immediate feeding range.

Feeding in Wallpaper Mode and Resolving Glitches

Drawquarium allows you to project your aquatic sanctuary onto your desktop through wallpaper mode. While this mode runs in the background of your operating system, your fish continue swimming in real time. You can interact with the tank directly from your desktop, tapping the glass or dropping food without launching the full game window.

On the Steam community forums, player bug reports noted game crashes when attempting to drop food after specific demo updates. If your game closes unexpectedly upon clicking the yellow fish icon, verifying game file integrity through Steam or following our crash fix steps resolves common driver conflicts and corrupted asset errors. Testing input with a mouse rather than a drawing stylus also stabilizes the feed action during older demo builds.