Shrapnel is a robotic fish with red steely eyes, a metallic body, and red propelors. He drifts around the tank and drops bombs occasionally.
Behavior[]
Shrapnel releases a bomb every 18 seconds. It flashes white shortly before releasing a bomb. Bombs are worth $150 in Adventure Mode and 5 shells in Virtual Tank. Shrapnel gives an average of $8.33/sec, which is the highest of all direct money producing pets (the others are Niko at $6.25/sec, and Vert at $5.83/sec). This makes it quite effective early on, but becomes less so later on when there is more danger of blowing up on a fish. As such, it might be helpful to use Presto to generate money near the beginning and changing him to another pet later on, especially in Tank 4 where breeders produce immense amounts of guppies.
Synergies[]
Shrapnel doesn't have many synergies, but can be paired with Angie, to revive and fish who may have been hit by a bomb produced by Shrapnel, although this isn't reccomended if your using Shrapnel for their crowd control purposes.
Story[]
THE STORY OF |
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SHRAPNEL THE ROBOT FISH |
When talking about SHRAPNEL, the main question is usually: What are the market forces of supply and demand that result in SHRAPNEL's bombs being worth $150? Alan Fishspan, chaiman of the Federal Shell Reserve answers: This is a response to the current low rate on 30 year mortgages, combined with the strong performance of the Euro against the dollar. |
Trivia[]
- Shrapnel appears to be a wind-up robot, due to the key as a dorsal fin, and is the only pet that is a mechanical lifeform. Shrapnel is not the only pet not explicitly mentioned to be male or female though, as this is shared with Zorf, Nimbus, and Amp.
- Shrapnel, along with Gash and Amp, are the only pets that can harm fish.
- Shrapnel appears to slightly resemble an Ultravore. He is silver in color and has a red propeller and eyes, and his mouth is constantly agape with sharp teeth.
- In real life, Shrapnel refers to the fragments of an object thrown out after an explosion.
- His story references several real-life economical concepts:
- The supply and demand model.
- The economist Alan Greenspan, who was the influential chairman of the Federal Reserve at the time Insaniquarium Deluxe was released (2004).
- Fixed-rate mortgages; 30 year mortgage rates had indeed been low at 2004, having declined significantly since the early 1980s and would continue to decline till 2022.
- The exchange rate between the Euro and the (United States) dollar; the Euro did rise significantly against the dollar during the early 2000s.
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Tank 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
Stinky | Niko | Itchy | Prego | Zorf | |||||||||||||||
Tank 2 | |||||||||||||||||||
Clyde | Vert | Rufus | Meryl | Wadsworth | |||||||||||||||
Tank 3 | |||||||||||||||||||
Seymour | Shrapnel | Gumbo | Blip | Rhubarb | |||||||||||||||
Tank 4 | |||||||||||||||||||
Nimbus | Amp | Gash | Angie | ||||||||||||||||
Tank 5 | |||||||||||||||||||
Presto | |||||||||||||||||||
Bonus | |||||||||||||||||||
Brinkley | Nostradamus | Stanley | Walter |