Sandfish

Sandfish
It tries to hide using camouflage.
Information
Location	The Desert
Time	6am – 8pm
Season	All
Weather	Any
Difficulty	65
Behavior	Mixed
Size (inches)	8–25
Fishing XP	24    27    30    36
Energy / Health	13 5 18 8 23 10 33 14
Sell Prices Base Fisher (+25%) Angler (+50%) 75g 93g 112g 150g 93g 116g 140g 187g 112g 139g 168g 225g
Artisan Sell Prices Roe Aged Roe Aged Roe (+40%) 67g 134g 187g

The Sandfish is a fish that can be caught in the pond at The Desert during all seasons. It can also randomly be found in Garbage Cans after unlocking The Desert, or at the Traveling Cart for data-sort-value="75"225–1,000g.

Sandfish can be caught regardless of time of day using Magic Bait.

Map

The Sandfish can be found at The Desert.

Bundles

Sandfish is used in the Specialty Fish Bundle in the Fish Tank.

Recipes

Image	Name	Description	Ingredients	Energy / Health	Recipe Source(s)	Sell Price
	Maki Roll	Fish and rice wrapped in seaweed.	Any Fish (1) Seaweed (1) Rice (1)	100 45	The Queen of Sauce 21 Summer, Year 1 Stardrop Saloon for data-sort-value="300">300g	data-sort-value="220">220g
	Quality Fertilizer	Improves soil quality, increasing your chance to grow quality crops. Mix into tilled soil.	Sap (4) Any Fish (1)	N/A	Farming Level 9	data-sort-value="10">10g
	Sashimi	Raw fish sliced into thin pieces.	Any Fish (1)	75 33	Linus (Mail - 3+ )	data-sort-value="75">75g

Tailoring

Sandfish can be used in the spool of the Sewing Machine to create the dyeable Fish Shirt. It can be used in dyeing, serving as a yellow dye at the dye pots, located in Emily's and Haley's house, 2 Willow Lane.

Fish Pond

Sandfish can be placed in a Fish Pond, where they will reproduce every 4 days. The initial pond capacity is 3 fish, but the capacity can be increased to 10 by completing two quests. The primary output is yellow Sandfish Roe, but Cactus Seeds are also possible at population 10.

Quests

Pond Capacity		Quest Item	Fishing XP Granted
Before Quest	After Quest
3	5	3 Cactus Fruits or 3 Coconuts	40
5	10	1 Golden Relic	40

Produce

Item(s) Produced	Fishing XP Granted	Population	% of Items	Overall Daily Chance
Roe (1)	12	1-7	75%	17-53%
		8-9	38%	30-33%
		10	27%	25%
Roe (2)	12	8-9	50%	40-44%
		10	36%	34%
Roe (3)	12	10	24%	23%
Cactus Seeds (2-5)	10	10	5%	5%
Nothing		1-7	25%	83-47%
		8-9	13%	31-24%
		10	9%	13%

Quests

• Item Delivery:  After unlocking The Desert, Sandfish may be randomly requested at the "Help Wanted" board outside Pierre's General Store for a reward of data-sort-value="225">225g and 150 Friendship points.
• Two Sandfish may be requested by Dorado, Lingcod, or Pike in a Fish Pond quest to increase the capacity of the pond from 7 to 10.
• Willy requests the player to catch 3 Sandfish during the Desert Festival for his fishing challenge on Spring 15. The reward is data-sort-value="25"> 25.

Notes

• While the Sandfish has a theoretical maximum Size of 25", in actual gameplay it is impossible to catch a Sandfish longer than 23", due to the Desert pond only having a maximum Fishing Zone of 2. A Fishing level of at least 18 is required to catch a 23" Sandfish.

History

• 1.4: Added to Help Wanted quests. Added iridium quality. Can now be used in Tailoring. Can be requested in Fish Pond quests.
• 1.6: Added to Desert Festival quest.