Insaniquarium Deluxe cheats and cheat codes for PC

Cheat mode:
Type one of the following cheat codes at any tank screen:

Effect - Code
All fish look dead - zombie  
Background waves - wavy  
Displays time on tank - time  
New breeder fish birth sound - welovebetatesters  
New prego birth sound - supermegaultra  
Original prego sound - prego  
Space background -space  
White screen background - void  

Santa fish:
Buy a guppy from the store and give a name to it: SANTA. 
The guppy will turn red and white and sing Christmas songs. 
It will also drop bags worth 20 shells. 
Note: You can do only once. 

Unlimited shells:
You have to first get two users past the first tank. After that, get one 
user to rack up some shells (at least 500 to 1000). Then, type give at the 
main menu. A screen should appear with your two user names. There should be 
one name on top of the other. For example: 

<User name one&qt;
<User name two&qt; 

Remember the order. Refer to the user name on top as "User 1" and the one on 
bottom as "User 2". Remember the user number for the user with the shells. Then 
enter the game folder (usually c:\program files\popcap games\insaniquarium 
deluxe). Enter the "userdata" folder in the game directory. Copy the 
user<number&qt; file (the number being either 1 or 2, depending on which user you 
want the shells to be transferred). Copy those user files and paste them in a safe 
place (such as the Windows Desktop). Then, give all of the shells from one player 
to the other. Exit the game and the move the user file you put in the safe location 
back into the "userdata" folder in the game directory. Select "Yes" or "Yes to all" 
when asked if you want to overwrite the files. Start the game again. The user who 
you gave the shells to will still have those shells, but the user who gave that 
person the shells will still have the shells that you had in the beginning. You 
can do this repeatedly for unlimited shells. Submitted by NikkiQ



Bonus Pet Brinkly: Buy for 20,000 shells.
Bonus Pet Nostradamus: After buying Brinkly, get 25,000 shells.
Bonus Pet Stanley: After buying Nostradamus, get 30,000 shells.
Bonus Pet Walter: After buying Stanley, get 35,000 shells.
Bring four pets to a level: After buying Walter, get 40,000 shells.
Secret Virtual Tank Fish: Kilgore: Buy for 50,000 shells, Purple Ultravore.

Food upgrade for virtual tank:
After you buy the alien attracter (50,000 shells and Bubbleator required first), 
you can get a level three upgrade food for 20,000 shells.

Get a Gold trophy:
Unlock all the stories in challenge mode. 

Get a Silver trophy:
Unlock all 4 bonus pets, reach the four pet limit, and have the seven pet virtual 
tank limit. 

Recommended helper combo:
A good helper combois Niko, Meryl and Vert as a money making team, You can 
get the maximum money with these.

Recommended combos in 7 pets only: 
Best Offensive and Defensive : 
Rufus, Presto, Itchy, Angie, Gumbo, Wadsworth, Stanley. 
Note: Gumbo is used because it does not work with large guppies and 
sometimes Wadsworth just freezes.

Best money team: 
Presto, Stinky, Niko, Clyde, Seymour, Nimbus, Meryl.

Best Population team: 
Prego, Presto, Wadsworth, Blip, Angie, Rhubarb, Zorf.

Ratings:
Note: These are from 0 to *****, with ***** being the best. 

1. Stinky: (**)
2. Niko: (**)
3. Itchy: (*)
4. Prego: (****)
5. Zorf: (***)
6. Clyde: (*)
7. Vert: (*)
8. Rufus: (****)
9. Meryl: (****)
10. Wadsworth: (***)
11. Brinkley: (*) or (****) if used correctly
12. Stanley: (***)
13. Walter: (****)
14. Nostradmus: (*) or (*****) in VT
15. Gash: (0) or (****)
16. Amp: (*) or (***)
17. Rhubarb: (****) or (*)
18. Blip: (0) in Challenge or (****)
19. Gumbo: (***)
20. Sharpenal:(**)
21. Seymour:(***)
22. Nimbus: (*)
23. Presto: (****)
24. Angie: (*****) 


More shells:
To increase your number of shells exponentially, you'll have to go into 
your system files. 

First, make a whole ton of users in the game. Ex. name them USER 1....USER9. 
Play as one of the users and get some shells (complete the first tank). 
Quit the game. Then look for the directory where you installed Insaniquarium, and 
go into the userdata folder. Copy user1.dat and make as many copies of this file 
as you have users in the same folder. Ex. if you have 9 users, copy user1.dat 9 
times. Then rename them to user2.dat, user3.dat... etc.

Run Insaniquarium. Type 'give' in the menu screen and you'll see a box with all 
the users in it. From there, you can transfer all the shells to one user (preferably 
the first user). Close the box, and then in Meryl's voice bubble, click 'If this is not 
you...' and change users. Repeat shell transfers.

Quit the game and, again, copy user1.dat and repeat the renaming process.
Submitted by: Kragoth

Full refund cheat:
Note:this cheat works when you want to sell your fish in full refund but its too 
late.The date now is May 29 2006 go into control panel then choose date and time 
a window should pop out then change the date to : May 28 2006 then click ok. 
Then open the game agian. Go to virtual tank and then click the button fish. Now 
sell the fish Submitted by: drop_43