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I think I read some place that if you don't log on / feed the fish stop glowing but I can only give it to you as rumor not fact. Someone else may be able to do better.

Were you moving fish out of the freezer at all?
I do notice that fish brought out of the freezer (at least my dolphins anyway) appear to miss one glow before they are back on their usually schedule. A whole tank full of dolphins will say none of them are going to glow. Kind of weirded me out the first time I saw it.

Yeah, sorry about that. I just have a memory that I think I read it some where. However some of the booty grab info I have read on Gaia directly contradicts other sources. Like everywhere else on the web and real life - you can't believe everything you read. Since I can't even remember who said it I didn't want to present it as fact. I did a quick search and came up with nothing definitive but I'll try again another time when I'm not signing off.

FYI, I see sources that say you don't have to feed the fish - just visit them - for happiness. Same difference though really. If you don't log on you didn't visit or feed so tank health goes down.

Is not a rumor, is a fact.

Feeding our fish and keeping them happy they "pay" with the glow.

Glow is much more frequent on certain fish, but again also on tanks which health/happiness is 100% (until a certain maximun of course).

After some 36 hours without been feed, glow start been less and less frequent until arrive a point when no glow. Also health/happiness of tanks starts to decrease slowly.

However, if you feed them again, in aprox 30 minutes they start the glow period programated. But recuperating the health/happines to the original 100% will take a bit longer, may be days depending on fish or tank setting.

Is not really a claim, because experiences can be different for each of us.
I claim only the fact that glows start been less frequent after 36 hours without feeding until glow stops totally, and this you can check with the analyzer and test. You will see anlyzer is telling you are glowing (in the left down side), but not any fish glows, all is black.

Once 36 hours are gone without feeding healt/happiness starts to go down and this you can test yourself too.

Then by logic health/happines is interacting with the frecuency of glows, because the lack of feeding? or because the decreasing of health/happiness? or both together? I dont know, and I have not found any explanation from gaia or moderator giving us any information about reason.

There is other factor I have not know before, seems not only feeding and caring the tank have infuence on the glows, but also the frecuency of use using (logging) the account, even not been able to feed the fish.
Feeding makes more "clear" the difference of glowing timing and increasement and/or maintenance of healt/happiness. It has been stated by some ppl with problems in computers or perhaphs flash problems, they can not feed the fish cos get frozen in that screen but even not feeding them tank has glows, not so frecuently as normally if feded, but they have.

Realy all what we know about tanks and glowigs are trials and test, error and success, because even when we have some good guides all them have been made by players collectioning experiences of their own or friends to cooperate.

I have done some "testing" and it appears that you need to be logged back in 24 hours after you log out last or otherwise the fish stop glowing, what they do at the 24 hour mark is if the analyzer says fish are going to glow they will glow and people are able to grab them, but after that glow is over, they won't glow again until you log onto that account, you don't even need to access your tank and the glow cycle starts again.

That is interesting. Have you tested it far enough to know they stop glowing completely? Perhaps you just miss the next glow and then it glows less often.

The reason I suggest this is I know someone with some mules who says they have not touched in months but they still glow. Now, that person did not tell me they don't log in to those mules so that does not invalidate what you are saying.

I kind of wish Gaia would say what the 'rules' are instead of making it so you just have to figure everything out. Especially since they also change things without saying and then you have to figure it out again.