Menarik
Details
- Diet
- Predatory/piscivorous — eats other fish in the same tank.
- Habitat
- Ē'aluth (Eealus) system, the Xi'an Empire's prime nature preserve.
AI Overview
Compiled by AI from community sources — may be incomplete or inaccurate; verify before relying on it.
A vibrant Xi'an "kingfish" that lives in player aquariums rather than the wild — a decorative Fish Tank pet famous (or infamous) for eating every other fish you put in the tank with it.
Appearance
The Menarik is described as a striking, vibrantly-colored kingfish. It is highly adaptable, able to survive in many different aquatic environments, which is why it works as a hardy aquarium specimen. In-game it exists as a small Souvenir/Flair object (volume ~1 µSCU) that swims inside the Fish Tank decoration.
Behavior & temperament
The Menarik is a predatory fish. The best-known fact about it among players is that it eats or drives off other fish: when a Menarik is added to a Fish Tank, the other fish that were in that tank previously go missing. This was reported by the community as far back as the Alpha 2 era (Issue Council ticket "Menarik eat other fish!!!"), with players asking whether the game should warn you before you drop a Menarik into a populated tank. So while it is not a combat threat to the player, it is aggressive toward tankmates.
Where to find
The Menarik is not a creature you encounter in the open world or hunt on a planet surface. It is obtained as a pet that comes bundled with the Fish Tank hangar/hab decoration. In lore, the species comes from the Ē'aluth (Eealus) system, the Xi'an Empire's prime nature preserve world, and the Xi'an "presented" the fish to Humanity from their preserves. (The Ē'aluth system is described as holding a specimen of essentially every species in the Xi'an sphere of influence.)
Diet
Predatory/piscivorous in practice — it consumes the other fish sharing its tank. (The lore text emphasizes its adaptability to many environments rather than a specific natural prey.)
Loot & drops
None. The Menarik is a decorative flair/souvenir item, not a huntable creature, so it has no drops or harvestable resources. The in-game item itself is currently not sold for aUEC; it is acquired only as the fish that ships inside the Fish Tank decoration.
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How to obtain (gameplay)
The Menarik comes with the Fish Tank, an aquarium decoration for the player hab and hangar made by the in-fiction Ten Thousand Seas Corporation. The Fish Tank was given to backers as a reward for the US$20 million crowdfunding stretch goal and was also sold on Voyager Direct (the pledge-store "Menarik Fish" listing lives under the Fishtank category). Players can expand a tank by collecting additional fish species. Note: the base/$20M Fish Tank is also associated with a rare gold Midas fish (from Cassel in the Goss system); the Menarik is the standard fish that ships with the Fishtank Mark I.
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Lore & discovery
The Menarik is a kingfish native to the Ē'aluth (Eealus) system within the Xi'an Empire. According to its description, it was a gift "presented" to Humanity by the Xi'an, drawn from their nature preserves — a small piece of flavor tying the player's aquarium pet to Xi'an–Human diplomatic relations. As a crowdfunding-era stretch-goal item, it is one of the oldest decorative collectibles in the game.
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Trivia
- The Menarik is one of several named decorative fish in the Star Citizen aquarium system (others include the rare gold Midas Fish from Cassel in the Goss system). - Its tankmate-eating behavior has been a long-running community talking point — flagged as an Issue Council "bug" report back in Alpha 2, though it appears to be working as intended given the fish's predatory description. - Sources spell the home system two ways: "Ē'aluth" (current starcitizen.tools spelling) and "Ealus"/"Eealus" (older spelling used by the cstone item description and archived wikis).
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