Ankotchi
Water Field · Paddle Species · 2–5 mistakes
Who Is Ankotchi?
A blue fish with a yellow bioluminescent lure dangling from its head.
Relaxed personality and sleeps deeper than anyone else. Afraid of the dark — sleeps with the lights on. Favorite food is nabemono hot pot.
Stats
| Stat | Value |
|---|---|
| Hunger drops every | 50 min |
| Happiness drops every | 60 min |
| Sick chance after care mistake | 35% |
Stats marked not yet documented are from characters confirmed to exist in the game but whose exact drain rates have not yet been published on the English community wiki.
How to Get Ankotchi
Step 1 — Get into the Water Field
Start on the Blue Water shell, which begins in the Water Field.
Step 2 — Feed the right food during the Kid stage
Target food type: Plankton
Specific foods: Meal Shrimp, Meal Plankton — from the shop. Plankton Dumplings — cooked.
Feed until you have at least one Plankton icon showing in your Tama Cell. You only need one dominant icon — once it appears, you can switch to cheap Pellets and save resources. The icon stays unless you switch fields (which clears all food icons).
Step 3 — Hit the right care level
Requirement: 2 to 5 total care mistakes across the Kid and Young stages.
How care mistakes work in Tamagotchi Paradise:
Care mistakes accumulate across both the Kid and Young stages combined — they don’t reset when your Tamagotchi evolves from Kid to Young. So if you made 2 mistakes as a Kid and 1 as a Young, your total is 3.
A care mistake happens when:
– Hunger or happiness hits zero and you don’t respond within the grace period
– Your Tamagotchi gets sick and you don’t treat it promptly
– You ignore the sick animation in the Tama Cell
How to track your mistakes: Zoom all the way into Cell View using the dial. Each spiral icon = one care mistake. Count them.
The sick risk: After certain mistake counts (1, 5, 7…), there’s a 30–35% chance your Tamagotchi gets sick at the next care event. Treat illness immediately from the Cell View or it counts as another mistake.
The maximum is 6 — once you have 6 spiral icons, you’re guaranteed the heavy neglect adult for your species regardless of what happens next.
Full Paddle Species Evolution Line
All four Paddle adults come from Plankton Young, raised in the Water Field on a diet of Plankton foods during the Kid stage. The only variable between these four characters is your total care mistake count.
| Character | How to Get |
|---|---|
| Tachutchi | Perfect care — 0 mistakes + Hunger maxed 5×+ + Happy maxed 5×+ |
| Sharktchi | Near-perfect — 0–1 total mistakes |
| Ankotchi ← you are here | Moderate neglect — 2–5 total mistakes |
| Otototchi | Heavy neglect — 6+ total mistakes |
Key reminder: Care mistakes are cumulative from the Kid stage onward. Two mistakes as a Kid plus one as a Young equals three total — putting you in the 2–5 range.
Checking your count: Zoom into Cell View with the dial. Each spiral icon = one care mistake. Count rice ball icons for hunger maxes and sun icons for happiness maxes.
Fun Facts
Based on the anglerfish (ankō in Japanese). An anglerfish that is scared of the dark is one of the game’s best bits of irony.
About This Character’s Field
The Water Field is the starting field on the Blue Water shell and unlocks on other shells as you level up your planet (at Level 4 or Level 6 depending on which shell you’re on). Water Field characters have seafood, seaweed, and plankton-based evolution paths, plus the Float Species for no-food-preference players.
For the complete evolution picture across all fields and shells, see the Full Evolution Chart. For detailed mechanics on how care mistakes work, see the Care Mistake Guide. For food sourcing strategies, see the Food Guide.