I have to confess that the biggest draw of this game for me is in the form of the Mermaids you can breed. It is here that breeding with Elixirs can be complex, as although there are fish that are of one colour, Mermaids have a variety of colours. Their hair is one colour but then they all have a crown and stars in their hair which can consist of many different colours. Their little brassiere or top is a single colour but their tails can be one colour, two colours or even three colours.
My original Mermaids came to me as a special introductory offer from Google Play but ordinarily they are unlocked only when you reach Level 15. At Level 15, you can buy Mermaids in three different colour combinations as follows:
Red Haired Mermaid (like Ariel) with a red top, a silver or white crown, blue stars in her hair and a tail that is pale blue and green. Cost: 77 Seastars
Black-haired Mermaid with a purple crown, purple and green stars in her hair, a green top and gold tail. Cost: 77 Seastars
Blond-haired Mermaid with a red crown, red stars in her hair, a yellow top and a red and blue tail. Cost: 77 Seastars
Now, here is an important secret about this game, worth remembering: YOU NEED TO HAVE TWO OF ANY SPECIES IN ORDER TO BREED THEM BUT THEY CAN BE OF THE SAME COLOUR AND YOU STILL CAN OBTAIN ALL COLOURS BY BREEDING!
In the case of the Mermaids, as all cost the same and are premium purchases, you may as well buy two of different colours, but in many cases, when you unlock a new type of fish, there is only one colour that can be purchased with Coins. That does not matter. Use the Coins to buy two of them and then use Elixirs to create new colour combinations.
With respect to the Mermaids, as an example, I originally was able to purchase only the red-haired Mermaids with the special introductory offer. Even so, I was able to produce black=haired mermaids and blond-haired mermaids by using Elixirs.
Furthermore, although the special 'rare' Elixirs are available when you reach Level 10 by throwing your regular Elixirs into a gambling 'kitty' and then tapping on the screen to try to obtain one, the ONLY really rare Elixir that I think only can be found in this gamble is the colour-changing Elixir.
Black is considered rare as is White but I was able to produce a black-haired Mermaid and just now finally, a white-haired Mermaid by using ordinary Elixirs.
The ordinary Elixirs are Blue, Red, Yellow and Green.
It is the following that finally produced the white-haired Mermaid.
Male: Red hair, silver crown, green and silver stars, green top, pale blue and green tail
Female: Dark blue hair, purple crown, black and red stars, black top, red tail
Used plain Yellow Elixir
Result: White hair, beige/pink crown, brown and yellow stars, yellow top and red tail
It is my first White-haired Mermaid, a colour I really wanted.... the only White Elixir I obtained from the gambling machine did NOT produce a White-Haired Mermaid. In fact, I think it only produced a White Crown.
2nd White-haired Mermaid created as follows from the first White and the female who produced the first white:
Used the first White as the male, has white hair, beige/pink crown, brown and yellow stars, yellow top and red tail
Female: Dark blue hair, purpl crown, black and red stars, black top, red tail
Used White Elixir this time
Result: White hair, silver crown, silver and blue stars, dark blue top, silver and red/brown tail
I have bred a few Black-haired beauties but the most recent was produced by breeding a Brown-haired Mermaid with a royal blue haired Mermaid. I did use a Dark Blue Elixir I believe. The brown-haired Mermaid has hair that really is orange-brown and a tail that is purple and teal. Orange stars, orange top. Baby has orange top, solid teal tail and royal blue crown, royal blue and red stars in hair.
The real question here where Elixirs and breeding are concerned is: does the ordinary colour wheel that we studied as young children apply? The Elixir colours are the three primary colours in the form of Red, Yellow and Blue but include the secondary colour of Green as well.
Primary: Red, Yellow, Blue
Secondary: Green, Purple, Orange
Red and Blue make Purple
Red and Yellow make Orange
Blue and Yellow make Green
To make Black, combine all three primary colours of Red, Yellow and Blue in equal amounts. Red, Green and Blue should make Black as well.
More on White-Haired Mermaid Breeding
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Having achieved the elusive white-haired result, I began to experiment to see what other combinations would create. I found that it is difficult to keep White Hair, which is what I suspected. Without using any Elixirs, I was able to breed two White-Haired Mermaids to create a third White-Haired Mermaid, but adding Elixirs changed. Here are some specific results:
Light Green Hair Male, green and yellow tail bed with White-Haired Female with silver and brown tail created a White-Haired Female with silver and brown tail, using Yellow Elixir (vertE)
BUT:
White-Haired Male with red tail bred with Blue-Haired Female with Red tail created Blue-Harired Male with gold and brown tail, using Yellow Elixir
White-Haired Male with red tail bred with White-Haired female with borwn and silver tail created White-Haired female with green tail, lime green elixir used
White Haired Male with brown tail and White Haired Female with silver and brown tail created White Haired female with silver and brown tail, when White Elixir used
White Haired Male with red tail and White Haired female with gold and brown tail created white-haired female with pink crown and red tail when pink elixir used (PinkE)
Magic Elixir Results
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The Magic Elixirs can be obtained only from the Slot Machine and then, only if you wager enough ordinary Elixirs. When they appear, they will be in the upper left corner of the board. The more common Slot Machine Elixirs, such as Lime, Brown and Dark Blue, occupy the majority of the slots. The 'rare' Elixirs in the form of White, Purple, Pink and Black (as well as some others possibly of which I am not yet aware) will be on the bottom shelf initially but if you continue to add Elixirs to your 'bet', then will begin to take slots in the middle shelf on the right as well. You have to hit the button while the circle is on the Elixir to win it. Movement tends to be quick and even quicker where the rare colours and colour-changing Magic Elixirs are concerned.
I did not realise that there was more than one different Magic Elixir. I now have 'won' a Blue Colour-Change Elixir in one game and a Purple Colour-Change Elixir in the other.
In the game where I won the Blue Colour Change Magic Elixir, I have no Mermaids yet and I really would like to use the Magic Elixirs on Mermaids if possible. Mermaids are unlocked at Level 15, but in the game that is on my Android Device, a special offer was given when I first began to play that allowed one to purchase Mermaids at a very low price for a very limited time period. Remember always in such a case that you need TWO of any species if you wish to be able to breed them and, moreover, one male and one female! The game usually will alternate gender by itself but be careful and make certain in the case of a special type with a premium cash price that you do not buy two of the same gender! Gender is indicated by the ancient Mars and Venus astrological symbols.
I did use the Purple Magic Elixir as soon as I won it and the results are as follows:
White-haired Male with red tail (PinkE) with White-Haired Female with green and yellow tail, Purple Magic Elixir: the entire Mermaid flashes purple. In other words, it is a sold-coloured Purple Mermaid with purple hair, purple top and purple tail, that flashes from a lighter to a darker purple.
In the Birdland Paradise game by the same firm, birds that have the Rainbow colour-change effect cannot be bred. That is not the case with respect to Fish Adventure Seasons. The colour change result when a Mermaid that has been created by the Elixir is bred to another Mermaid appears to be RANDOM. The first time I bred her, I obtained a Mermaid with no hint of the colour change. That was with the following:
White-Haired Male with red tail (Sir Alba) bred with Colour-Change Mermaid, no Elixir used: result was a White Haired Memaid with a red tail almost identical to the father.
White-Haired Male with Pink Crown and Red Tail bred to the Purple Colour-Change Mermaid, using a White Elixir resulted in a White-Haired Mermaid with a purple tail. She is still a baby so difficult to tell if the tail flashes but it rather looks like it does not flash. It is the same colour as the Magic Elixir that produced the mother but without the colour-change quality I think. Well, I could not stand the suspense, so I paid 8 Seastars to grow the baby instantly... what I discovered is very interesting. She has the purple colour-change stars in her hair and a purple colour-change top but her tail is a sold purple that does not flash at all.
I am not going to use Seastars to grow the other one instantly but even in its small size, I can see there is no purple, colour-changing or otherwise on that little Mermaid. So the colour-change result on any offspring of the original is random.
White is Recessive
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I suppose any one who knows anything about colour would realise this to be the case. It is difficult to obtain the White-Hair and difficult to keep it. Most of the time, when I breed a White-Haired Mermaid with a Mermaid with a different hair colour, I do not obtain a White-Haired infant. I still marvel that I ever obtained the first White-Haired Mermaid, because the male had red hair and the female had blue hair.
