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Water Pea Care and Instructions

Please treat your water pea like a real pet fish. Feed daily!

 Click here to get the Water Pea android app.

 You will receive a single water pea egg. Drop the egg in the water and your baby pea will hatch. If your water pea is alive after 1 day, it will produce an egg that you can harvest.

Care and Instructions

Birth

When you place the water pea egg in water, it will take a few seconds for the egg to dissolve. Initially, the newborn water pea will be tiny and hard to see. Take care not to accidentally pick it up and drop it out of the tank.

 Water peas live for about 3 days if properly fed.

Feeding

Your water pea must be fed every day, or it will die. To be safe, feed it once in the morning and again at night.

 Water peas recycle vitamin B by producing caecal pellets. Wait for your water pea to produce the pellet and then collect it so you don't run out of food. This is their only source of nutrition!

 To collect the pellets, drag them to the top of the screen.
  • It's very hard to see baby pea pellets
  • Collect the pellets or you will quickly run out of food!

Habitat

Water peas live in water and surface periodically for oxygen. Without oxygen, a water pea will die within minutes. The longest a water pea has been observed to survive without oxygen is around 10 minutes. Yours probably won't last that long.

 You can help a baby water pea by moving it near the surface when you see it swimming up for air.

Disease

Water peas are highly susceptible to disease and aquatic illnesses. If your water pea gets sick, it needs to be dried out. Hold the pea outside of the tank until you see a message saying that the pea has been cured.

 When the pea is healthy, drop it back in the tank.

 Old food and waste can harbor parasites which can harm your water peas. Be on the look out for them.


Social

The most interesting thing about water peas is their social behavior. They sometimes appear to be aware of each other. Watch closely and you may see this yourself.

 Though they appear simple, the way that water peas move and interact is not predetermined, and appears to be random.

Reproduction

Reproduction is possible, but unlikely. Water peas become mature after a day or two, and produce a single egg. Reproduction requires a male and female.

 During reproduction, the female pea's egg will fall out and hatch a baby pea. You must harvest the egg from a male water pea, as it will never be used for reproduction.

Have Fun!

Take care of your water peas every day and make sure you harvest your daily egg. Once you stop taking care of them, your water peas will be gone for good.


For further reading on the development of Water Peas, see:
  1. Artificial behavior
  2. Doubts
  3. Strange behavior
  4. Evolved
  5. Mean peas

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