Help with your pond

The pond appears beneath your desktop icons without a conventional main window. Click the fish icon in the menu bar and choose Settings. If windows cover the pond, choose Preview Pond; press Esc to end the preview.

Click an empty area of the desktop or choose Feed in the Pond from the fish menu. Without Accessibility access, desktop icon clicks may also feed the fish. Turn off Click Desktop to Feed in Settings to use menu feeding only.

Choose Settings → Open Fish Workshop → Add Fish. Name and paint your fish, adjust its appearance, then choose Save & Release. Edits are kept as drafts; you can also discard them.

No. Weather is an artistic scene generated on your Mac, without location access or a network connection. Choose a scene manually or use Natural Cycle. Automatic time of day follows your system clock.

The app follows the preferred language macOS supplies for it. Simplified Chinese uses Chinese; all other languages, including Traditional Chinese, use English. Quit and reopen the app after changing the system or per-app language. Your own fish names are not translated.

Ambient sound is off by default. Enable it and adjust its volume in Settings. Try Energy Saver, Quiet Preset, or Reduce Motion, and control insects, weather animation, and water effects separately. The pond can be enabled or disabled on each display.

Export Fish Backup saves a JSON file; Restore Fish Backup imports one you choose. You can delete current fish in the workshop, but previous backups and recovery data may remain locally. Reset Environment preserves custom fish. Manage any exported files separately.

Export a fish backup before quitting and reopening the app. Check that the display is enabled and swimming is not paused. Avoid deleting preferences or backups as a first troubleshooting step.