Seaweed is a Water Field food type, and it does one job: fed during the Kid stage, it turns your Water Kid into a Leap Young.
Where to Get Seaweed
Seaweed comes from the shop and from Egg Hunts. There are three seaweed items, and all three count towards the same food type — you do not need a specific one.
| Item | Food type | → Young species |
|---|---|---|
| Green Seaweed | Seaweed | Leap Young |
| Red Seaweed | Seaweed | Leap Young |
| Seaweed Salad | Seaweed | Leap Young |
What It Does to Your Evolution
Feed seaweed as the dominant food during the Kid stage and you get Leap Young. Your care mistakes then decide which of four adults it becomes.
| Care tier | Adult |
|---|---|
| Perfect care (0 mistakes + both meters maxed 5×) | Axolopatchi |
| Near-perfect (0–1) | Imoritchi |
| Moderate (2–5) | Kawazutchi |
| Heavy neglect (6+) | Beavertchi |
When It Matters
Food only steers evolution during the Kid stage. What you feed as a Baby, a Young or an Adult has no effect on which character you get — it only fills the hunger meter. The Kid stage runs 24–28 hours, and that is your whole window.
You need one icon of the target type in your Tama Cell, and more of it than any other type at the moment of evolution. Feed a few, watch for the icon, then switch to cheap default pellets to save Gotchi Points.
Seaweed only exists in the Water Field, so it is unavailable on White Glacier and Orange Tropics, which drop the Water Field entirely. On those shells the nearest equivalent is Northern Seafood, which gives Glide rather than Leap.