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Thanks David (btw, just grabbed and bumped your tank)
My question: your tank shows that you have 18 fish... I thought a full tank was 17 fish. Have they changed that?

Barrett's Tank......is it glitched? And, if so, has it always been? Having never used it until just very recently, maybe I'm missing the point of his tank.

My understanding was, once you put a fish in there, it was frozen and would not age. And the aging process would continue from the age of the fish on the day it was frozen once it was removed from his tank. With me so far?

I just removed "Chuck" (Norris), a Ninja Fish, from Barrett's Tank. Ninjas have an app age of 140 days, but Chuck is 197 today. And, lemme tell ya, he's lookin' pretty darn good for an old man. The fish, that is!! biggrin

Thank you very much!

Well, I have not owned wolfpups so I don't KNOW.
I tried to look up a bit of information for you and make some GUESSES.
You can look up some folks with wolf tanks and ask them their experiences or maybe some of them will see this and post here.

There are some tanks with mostly all wolf pups in my mixed tanks thread.
http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?t=18130615

In the tank below 8 out of 13 wolfpups will glow on the next glow. That seems pretty good but I don't know what percentage of them glow on average.
Like many min-monsters they only live for 4 weeks so I would not put them in unless you already have high exposure on your tank. Otherwise they will die before you get your invites built up.

http://www.gaiaonline.com/tank/16931913/?userEnvironmentId=2423353&gsiUrl=www&isInEdit=false&firstTime=&location=popUp&quality=low&version=120&graphicsServer=http://s.cdn.gaiaonline.com/images/Gaia_Flash/aquarium/&isGameActive=false

Wolves drop 4 green every 2 seconds so 4 x 2 x 30 = 240 gold during a 60 second game with no power up / power downs and a cap of 300.
Let's suppose on a tank of 17 of them that on average 10 glow. That is a guess. I'm not sure.
240 x 10 = max gold of 2400 per game. Absol's analyzer predicts users will on average get 25% of the max so let's assume 600 per player per game.

Average MP is 117k and current LMP is 127k
Let's assume you end up paying an average of 125k per wolf.
125k x 17 = 2,125,000
You have 28 days to get your money back
2,125,000 divided by 28 means you need to get 75,892 per day to break even.
75892 divided by 600 means you need about 128 people per day to play your tank.
Tank glows vary but let's assume your tank glows an average of 10 times per day.
So, you need 12.8 players per game on average.
Or, if you only glow 8 times per day you need an average of 16 players per day.
In the middle of the night not as many people will play your tank so you need some full games during the day to keep up the average.

So, I made a LOT of assumptions there. If I'm off on some of them it could tweak the numbers quite a bit.
I believe I could make wolfpups turn a profit for me but my main tanks are in about 215 booty grab threads and I get a lot of full games.

I hope that helps a little but feel free to insert your own assumptions into the formulas or ask folks with direct experience.

Yeah, I'm kind of confused by Gaia's priorities.
Fixing the freezer glitch, the ghost fish glitch and, in the case of dolphins, making red gold worth 4 gold as advertised instead of 5 would be three LEGITIMATE ways to reduce both the amount of HT fish in the system and the total gold they are introducing. Fixing those items would both help towards reducing inflation and encourage users to purchase more fish from the fish shop.

LOL! Well, "the best plans of men and mice", and all that! I guess Gaia Admin wins some and loses some. David's right... they seem to have a problem setting priorities.