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Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: seaworldgurl1 on November 23, 2006, 11:19:32 AM
i am new to zoo admin...but i have a ?....in mm2 the ambient fish and jellyfish swim around on the ground after i have gotten rid of the water...is this normal?:hmmm:
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: SageofWater on November 23, 2006, 11:32:11 AM
Probably just a glitch or it takes a while to process that the water is gone :happy: .
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: seaworldgurl1 on November 23, 2006, 11:51:25 AM
ok...thanks :)
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Post by: Crookshankz227 on November 25, 2006, 11:40:35 PM
Has anybody noticed that the remora attaches itself to the animals? :happy:
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: Danezilla on November 26, 2006, 01:03:11 AM
Quote from: Crookshankz227;160560
Has anybody noticed that the remora attaches itself to the animals? :happy:


I s'pose that helps with, A) Keeping the animals healthy and B) Keeping the game realistic.:specool:
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: JoJo on November 27, 2006, 02:19:35 AM
Wow,I never noticed that except one time a guest said: "Look, the remora is cleaning Manta 1!" or something like that. I thought it was just a random comment. :tv_happy:
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: seaworldgurl1 on November 27, 2006, 04:36:03 PM
yeah my guests have said the same thing and i had no idea wut they were talkin about :)
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Post by: Panthera_Tigris_Pyro on November 27, 2006, 05:06:21 PM
I noticed the remora on my sea turtle, I thought is was the coolest think. Also, in the dark ocean biome (can't remember the name, the whale shark's) there are little tiny organisms floating around. At least, I think thats what they are.
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: seaworldgurl1 on November 27, 2006, 05:29:23 PM
yeah, i have noticed in the reef biome that there are small organisms floating around in the water. they are white and sort of transparent
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: tazlover on November 28, 2006, 10:02:06 PM
Those small organisms probably mean that the water is not as clean as it could be.
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: seaworldgurl1 on November 29, 2006, 12:58:25 PM
i always thought they were like little jellyfish...ya know...like in the ocean??
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: wolfkid92 on November 29, 2006, 01:15:06 PM
or you might have the plankton feeder around. the plankton feeder has lil plankton floating around it.
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: seaworldgurl1 on November 29, 2006, 01:56:25 PM
no..i wasn't using the plankton feeder...it was a bottlenose dolphin exhibit (they like the reef bimoe too!) i think that the "organisms" are just ambient animals
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Post by: mikaboshi on November 29, 2006, 02:00:28 PM
Well, I notice those little organisms when the water is dirty. There are no files for ambient amoebas.
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: Crookshankz227 on November 29, 2006, 08:05:06 PM
They're always there in my game - I think they're just there in the water, like the bubbles? I thought they were little organisms like there are in nature.
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: tazlover on November 30, 2006, 06:42:33 PM
If you don't have a filter installed when you see these organisms, go to the surface and clean the water manually.  When you drop back underwater, you can watch the things fade away until the water is clear again.
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: seaworldgurl1 on December 01, 2006, 12:55:41 PM
ok...ive done that...doesn't work...i don't know...i'll just think they're "organisms" (i like the idea of organisms) and I clean my water in EVERY exhibit when i go down into guest mode....idk...probably a glitch or sumthin :)
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Post by: Tazzie-Tiger99 on December 03, 2006, 12:50:29 PM
how do the MM ambients actually work

do they just appear when u put in the biome for an exibit or something... i only have the demo and i noticed that if you drain an exibit the ambients dissapear but when i refilled it they didnt reappear

also they dont disapear normally like the land ambients which is way cool

i cant really help with the "organisms" questions but i think it may be bacteria or other small life they come out when the tank is dirty

like when in a dirty fishtank there are little creatures scurrying around the bottom under the gravel

or they are bubbles, shrimp, or some other tiny ambient, or are an odd glitch

i dont exactly know how filters and cleaning tanks work anyways so thats all i can offer
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: tazlover on December 03, 2006, 09:37:59 PM
Yes, the ambients will appear when the appropriate biome is added.  As for the water ambients - it can be some time before they appear, even longer than for the land  versions.
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: seaworldgurl1 on December 04, 2006, 02:19:37 PM
oh yeah...one thing...i was watching an "organism" float in the water....and it eventually faded away like regular ambients
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: Tazzie-Tiger99 on December 04, 2006, 04:34:00 PM
ok.... i think i understand now how these new ambients work

so say i have a tundra tank with a few crabs.... but then i change it to coastal will then in a few minuetes remora and lionfish appear

also what do u mean for land.... iff u change the entire biome of a map you will get different ambients like going from a temperate forest map with squirrels and redoing the map so it is all desert will spring hare appear and squirrels dissappear??
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: wolfkid92 on December 06, 2006, 06:37:47 PM
no land ambients dont change, they appear on the biome of the map. water ambients appear in the biome of the water so that your tanks will be populated.
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: Tazzie-Tiger99 on December 08, 2006, 04:33:01 PM
o thats cool..... so iff i wanted to change the ambients in a tank i could change it to another biome then change back right

also how come when i am decoratin a tank some of my ambients seem to dissapear
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: seaworldgurl1 on December 09, 2006, 08:47:32 AM
maybe because the ambients are programed to need a certain amount of space in a tank or body of water to work....when you start adding stuff it probably takes up some of that space! :) oh also, i have noticed that with all the exps, the land ambients change when you paint a different biome...example: i was on the large grassland map & i made a wetlands exhibit and the bullfrog appeared only where i painted wetlands
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Post by: Crookshankz227 on December 09, 2006, 08:51:33 AM
I think I got a squirrel on the coastal map, so I think you might be correct!
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: seaworldgurl1 on December 09, 2006, 08:55:15 AM
good to know im right...cuz for a minute i didn't know if i should say that...people might've thought i was crazy!!
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Post by: wolfkid92 on December 09, 2006, 09:11:31 AM
i had bullfrog on a grassland map too, but i didnt have any wetlands animals.
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: seaworldgurl1 on December 09, 2006, 02:59:50 PM
no you don't need to have any wetlands animals for the bullfrog to appear! :)

Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: Tazzie-Tiger99 on December 09, 2006, 05:29:57 PM
this is weird its like some weird ZT2 conspiracey or something:blink: :unsure: :hmmm:
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Post by: kiwibuddy on December 09, 2006, 05:42:57 PM
Just a question, but I see this really weird ambient fish (I think it's in either the coastal or reef biome.) popping up that comes in red and blue, and I have no idea what it is. :hmmm: It's not the lionfish either. Ring a bell to anyone?
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: seaworldgurl1 on December 10, 2006, 01:54:24 PM
i know wut ur talkin about..but i can't think of the name...i think there's a thread on ambient animals in MM2..hopefully that helps....:)
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: Tazzie-Tiger99 on December 10, 2006, 05:55:10 PM
it could be a blenny or powder blue tang or a capelin

i also have possibly solved what the small organism is..... a baby moon jelly

remember squishy from finding nemo something like that....... also iff not i think i may have witnissed the organism in a tank i made in the demo

i witnessed the object moving across the horizon due east at around 8:30 and going at 350mph

i witnessed the smallish organism in the tank moving across the screen it was really just a white speck and it didnt move up or down or turn it just went perfectly straight i was going to try to photograph it but i lost sight of it when i switched to photo mode
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: seaworldgurl1 on December 11, 2006, 12:59:06 PM
no...its not a white speck..its looks like those jellyfish that are almost completely see-through...with like a four-point star design thing on the top...they don't have tenctacles either...idk  :)
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: Tazzie-Tiger99 on December 12, 2006, 05:47:52 PM
exactly baby moon jellies

or those comb jellies....... if they are in deep water it might be comb jellies they are along the coast too

or it is something like that weird starfish thing in the movie evolution
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: Bep-Boi on December 16, 2006, 03:09:58 AM
I've noticed that the crab ambients move away from you when you go in front of them. First, they shake sideways, then scuttle away from you.
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: Tazzie-Tiger99 on January 01, 2007, 04:34:42 PM
still havent got the game.... ugg

i swear there were fish in a underwater hippo exibit screenshot i saw.... they werent any of the ones you could downlowad and the exibit was wetland
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: mikaboshi on January 01, 2007, 05:18:16 PM
All of the biomes that have Marine Animals have fish that swim in them. The Herring is the only fish that will swim in Wetlands. For a complete listing of Ambients and the maps they show up in, refer to the List of all Ambients in ZT2 (http://zoo.ogresnet.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6695) thread.
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: Tazzie-Tiger99 on January 01, 2007, 05:41:37 PM
didnt see wetlands after herring

my bad

the floating speck might be poop, chunks or food/plant matter, or a micro organism after some final forever final thought on the topic on the "specks"
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: Judavis on January 27, 2007, 06:16:54 PM
how do u get the jellyfish ambnets and crabs???
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: csleesburg on January 27, 2007, 07:23:21 PM
Quote from: Judavis;178504
how do u get the jellyfish ambnets and crabs???

You have to have the Marine Mania 2 (MM2) expansion. They come with it and appear randomly in any of the MM2 waters.
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: Ciaran_DUK on February 07, 2007, 02:24:49 AM
Quote from: tazlover;161429
Those small organisms probably mean that the water is not as clean as it could be.

 or it could be that whale sharks live in the deep water biome and manta rays live in the reef biome and they both eat plankton - so again it might be more realistic or it could be from the plankton eaters food (cos they have little organisms floating out of thje bucket or floater thingy)
Title: ambient animals!!
Post by: ShenTirag on February 07, 2007, 05:13:05 AM
I believe the small organisims found in the water are just for decoration, I get them in coastal water no matter how clean it is :)
Title: Re: ambient animals!!
Post by: Chimpinater on March 02, 2007, 04:22:00 PM
I never get those tiny organisms in my water. :bag:
Title: Re: ambient animals!!
Post by: Tazzie-Tiger99 on April 03, 2007, 03:27:21 PM
i have possibly discovered the answer to the floating thingeys

they are plankton, zooplankton, alge, comb jellies, etc one looks like a cog wheel i have seen them with my own eyes looking through the eyes of a guy looking at them with his own 2 eyes

thats 4 eyes metaforically speeking

and i have pictures too

Title: Re: ambient animals!!
Post by: penguinman on April 03, 2007, 03:48:42 PM
THere's definitely different types, I think they are just small organisms/plants etc. in the water because sea water is filled that kind of stuff.

Also, I noticed when testing an animal that a really dirty tank was FILLED with them.
Title: Re: ambient animals!!
Post by: Tazzie-Tiger99 on April 03, 2007, 04:57:09 PM
thats what gives sea water the real kick

along with the salt....

then maby they are also fish/marine creature poo