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I tried to keep this short and sweet and made it more of an advice thread with links to GAIA resources. Hopefully this will help all you new booty grabbers with enjoying and mastering the game more. If you have other advice, things to share, please feel free to post! This page has the following:

I. Booty Grab Basics
II. Building Your Booty Grab Tank
III. Buildling a Glow Thread
IV. Getting Invites



By now, you've probably discovered that Booty Grab is the quickest and most fun way to earn some Gaia gold, unless of course, you've purchased some Gaia cash and invested in some of the collectibles and cash items to sell in the Market Place.

How do you play Booty Grab? Here's a play guide and explanations of the different power ups and downs you'll encounter playing Booty Grab. BOOTY GRAB GUIDE

Having some lag problems? Here are some tips on taking care of some of the lag when playing Booty Grab: LAGGINESS TIPS

Another thing that will help with lag is to maximize the booty grab window! This has helped me a ton and since I started doing this, my scores have gotten so much higher!

Also, select the Low Quality setting at the bottom of the Booty Grab screen when its loading. This also helps lessen the lag.

Be courteous to your Booty Grab host! Sometimes courtesy will be "rewarded". I've gotten free fish, aquarium decorations and even gold, from tank owners for being courteous. Yay for freebies! xd

Bump a glowing tank! Many Booty Grab tank owners have a Bump link in their signature. Post your score, write a little thank you note, or even a smile will do! Plus, a lot of thread owners do random giveaways in their threads. Although tank owners appreciate your notes inside the aquariums, your post in the actual Glow Thread is even more welcome and very appreciated!

Follow the Gaia ToS when posting!

Suscribe to a few Booty Grab Threads! There are a number of threads that have contests for gold, fish and items, including the ones here in Story Paradise Guild Forums! Since suscribing doesnt work in the guild pages, add us in your Quick Links at the bottom left of your window.

When you've built a good booty grab tank, join a few Booty Grab guilds! You can make friends with other booty grabbers and learn a lot from the pros.

For the best exposure for your glowing tank, you should have a glow thread in the main Aquarium Forums with a link to a Reply Box in your signature! A direct link in your signature to a REPLY BOX will allow people to bump your thread with quick ease. Theres nothing more annoying than having to click 2 or 3 times to get to a Reply Box, especially with my crappy lappy!

The best glow threads have 1 to 4 featured tanks in the first page only. All bumps and posts should start on 2nd page and beyond. This lessens the time it takes for a page to load, especially for booty grabbers with older computers and lower-end graphic cards (like my crappy lappy).

Your first page should be simple. Try to keep it free of artwork and post only ONCE. Most serious booty grabbers do not like to scroll to the bottom of a very long page to look for a glowing tank, especially since your tank only shows once per page and shows only on your LAST post if you have several posts. Keeping artwork and fancy lettering out of the page will lessen the lag for many booty grabbers and load the page more quickly.


1. In the main Gaia Aquarium forum, create a topic titled DO NOT POST. On your first post, simply put: "Recycled Glow Thread IN PROGRESS. Please do not post." Hopefully this will keep people from posting in your thread until its done... but there ARE some rude and annoying people who simply MUST post on the first page your glow thread. (See first page of my glow thread, last post. I've pm'd the person 4 times AND left him a message on his profile and he still refuses to delete the post, citing "other people have posted", even though I've told him those are my mules!)

2. Each page in a thread has a maximum of 15 posts before going to the next page. So, start posting until you reach the second page. Make sure your other "featured" tanks are also posted on the first page.

3. When you reach the second page, start deleting all your extra posts on the first page, so that there is only 1 post per tank.

4. In your glow thread, click the reply button and copy the address of the reply box at the top of the window.

5. On your signature builder page, start typing your link. You can reach your signature in My Gaia -> Preference -> Signature. Since this requires basic BB codes, use this code to type your link:



6. This should read: "BUMP HERE when I glow. (Leads to a Reply Box)." Press SAVE. Note: Your signature has a maximum of 255 characters with another 255 URL characters. So if your signature has exceeded these numbers, you'll have to delete something. There's a counter at the bottom of the Signature page.

7. Next, go to any of your posts and test the link out. When you press BUMP HERE, it should lead to the reply box in your glow thread.

8. Now, go back to your glow thread and change the title of your thread to your preferred title. Your title should have the word "glowing" in it to attract booty grabbers camping the main Aquarium Forum for glows and grabs. Also change your post to entice people to click on your tank for a game of Booty Grab.

This is the first tank I built! I used trial and error and a lot of reading to build it. whee

Because Im the Queen of Lag, I had to find a balance with the fish/monster mix and decorations where most people will be able to play. Gwees give out a lot of white and green gold, plus they all glow at the same time. I tried putting a full tank of Gwees and many have complained of the lag because of the amount of coins they drop. With the Kokeshi's in the tank, I still get a full tank glow with a little less lag. Kokeshi's give out all green coins, thus less number of coins dropping. I'll use very few non-moving decorations and change them from time to time.

BTW, just in case you didnt know the value of gold drops:
Regular gold = 1x
Green gold = 2x
Blue gold = 3x
Red gold = 5x

If you have any questions, feel free to post here. Im sure someone out there can answer your questions, so long as its simple. xD

never give your information to strangers, never password nor address of your house, it is against gaia rules