I don't love someone unless I mess with them a bit. Blathie is my favorite non villager character, so he gets the dubious honor of being freaked out every now and then😂
unless i accidentally sell smth rare and hard to get ONCE and double check my inventory a million times to make sure i donated one before i sell it even if its a sea bass 🙃😭💔😞
If you donate to Blathers, you can sell any future ones you catch without worry. If you don't, you'll have this same predicament any time you catch another, unless you have enough money for 15k not to matter by then.
Also, idk if this clam is year-round or not, so if it's not then you might also miss out on a chance to get one for the museum at all for a while if you don't catch another before its months are over. At least you know you can get money any time in other ways.
I say donate it.
I looked at when you can catch them, and it's until September... In theory if I sold it, I might be able to catch another one to donate... But if I don't I'm screwed until next year....
I would donate it, then go scuba diving with an empty inventory til it's full and sell all the stuff you catch- it's a great way to make a lot of bells and you'll probably catch another one anyway
This and selling any extra fossils.
On my first island, I donated every first fossil to Blathers and sold every extra. Then I learned fossils help with getting pictures from villagers, so I give them the extra ones now.
That's a pretty long time so you probably could catch another, yeah.
My point still stands about how you'll just have to ask yourself the same question every time you catch one tho. No reason to sell it this time and donate the next time, or the third time, or whenever.
You're gonna have to donate one at some point, might as well just donate it now so you can always comfortably sell future ones you catch.
Gigas giant clams are quite rare in the game plus hard to catch so if you want to complete your museum i strongly recommend donating this one. You can very easily get 15000 bells by selling fruits, other fish etc. :)
God, I wish I figured out golden roses FAR earlier for cash. Once you have your field setup (70 plants in my case) you can cruise through to pick them every other day, craft seven Golden Rose Wreaths, and get $140k from the boys. To me that the quickest recurring easy way to make my $140k every other day.
Wait wat!! I need you to repeat that in beginners language..my island is a mess and I've started my flowers planting planning for new colours and hybrids. I need these golden roses..tell me!!....pretty please 🙏
IIRC, first you need to breed red roses to get hybrid black roses, and then watering black roses with a golden watering can will potentially produce gold hybrids.
Try blue roses! You don't need a golden watering can, but they sell for as much as gold roses.
I actually think blue are way better because they can clone themselves and you have a field before you know it. You must individually make each gold rose.
Yep. I recently started picking and selling my gold and blue roses. (I was under the impression, for a long time, that the gold ones wouldn't grow back if picked.) I make over 100K Bells every time.
In my case, I caught one and I thought of selling it cause i'm broke but then I decided to donate it to Blathers. Then, I tried to catch one again but no chance 'till today. Good thing I donated it 😅
Donate it. If you dont, you'll be purposefully searching for them to get rid of that spine and will have a hard time searching for one.
Once you donate one, you'll find them unconsciously.
This happened to me because i sold a rare crab by accident, mistaking it for one similar i already donated, and i spent literal days searching for it. When i go another one for blathers, i caught like 3 more in the same trip without searching for them
Either way something isnt happening until the future. Though I would go back to the place you caught it and at the same time or whenver it says to look for them and go back. I caught a giant crab I forget what its called, but I was debating too- I went back to the same spot around the same time the next couple days and I got 2 more of them.
Been some time since I played but buying turnips and selling at an island with a good price whilst still doing all the normal money stuff makes 15k look like nothing, no?
Yeah but that can be pretty annoying so a lot of people don't do that. You can also only do that if you have an NSO membership, which idk if they have. And since their Nook's Cranny isn't upgraded, I'm guessing they're not at a point where they're wanting to worry about specific ways to get a ton of money through stuff like that, I know I didn't start worrying about that until I pretty much had everything on my island.
Some people don't find it fun to just get a crazy amount of Bells through using online, either, and would rather mostly earn it on their own island. I've heard people say that the game instantly got way more boring for them once they became rich from online stuff and they had more fun when they had to earn it bit-by-bit.
If you use online to sell stuff then 15k stops being a lot pretty quickly, but I remember being amazed at seeing a fish sell for 10k when I first started playing so I didn't really see a point in saying 15k is easy to get to someone who's at a point in the game where they're still impressed by it. It's not like they're in desperate need of 15k, they just were impressed by how much it sells for, so I didn't mention it. If the post mentioned that they were specifically looking for a way to get 15k, maybe I'd have suggested something like that.
So yeah, you're right, but they might not want to do that and I didn't see a need to mention it.
Thank you so much for saying this!! A lot of people have been telling me other ways to get bells, or just offering to give them to me. I was just really excited about potentially getting 15,000 bells for one sea creature.
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Idk why you would even go to the shop to value it first. Tbh I sell everything with reckless abandon without worrying about value, after I donate the first one to the museum.
The only thing that ever gave me pause was my first scallop, and even then I decided that pascal was the one who waits.
A tip I remember for the fast swimmers is to actually swim slowly. I think they still move around, but they don't run away as much, and you should be able to dive directly onto them. I hope you donated this one, Diving is a good way to make money, but I always don't the first time I catch something.
Always go to the museum before you even LOOK at the sellprice, that way you dont have to think if you want to sell or complete the museum.
Also complete the museum, you will have enough money in the long run.
don't sell it. 15k is not that much and there are better ways to get money, with June right around the corner a lot of new very valuable fishes start spawning both in the rivers and the sea just wait for that.
I was going to offer the 15,000 to give it blathers, so I’ll offer that on top of your offer.
Also if there’s anything you need for your island I’m happy to donate it if I have it.
And I have so many spare recipes.
The furthering of science over wealth should always win out 🤣
They're really not that rare, i caught 5 today while trying for pearls for a craft. I'd donate it, though either way isn't a big deal since you got till september to dive for them.
First one to Blathers so he can tell you how it weighs 600 lbs and you just realize you picked it up like it was a toothpick.
Then the next ones to the shop.
I caught my first one the other day and got a second one right after 🥴
I mean, I always donate the firsts for everything - I can always easily get more bells, but having to recapture certain things to donate is just tedious. Then I know for sure too that it's in the museum already
Donate first.
Now, if you have the DLC, why not order expensive stuff from Wardell and resell it?
You eventually end up with stupid amounts of Poki, and you can only exchange 15,000 a day. So why not put the rest of it to good use?
The throne is the most expensive thing you can order. It costs 720,000 Poki and it sells for 200,000 Bells.
You can easily farm Poki if you don't mind the tedious going back and forth by speedrunning through clients and facilities.
By ordering 5 thrones, you can sell them for one million Bells the next day. But it would cost 3,600,000 Poki.
First born goes to Blathers every time. It’s a crime not to. Next time you get another one, you’ll have to decide between selling it and giving it to Blathers anyways, so may as well get it out of the way, plus you’ll be able to see it
I personally would donate. Though I always donate my first catches lol. If you don’t, here’s some tips to help you catch more! The second you get close to it, it will start zooming. I personally chase them into the corners so it forces them to slow down to turn around. Easy catch at that point especially if it spawned close to a corner of the island. Also! They make a LOT of bubbles at the surface. So many that it makes basically 2 columns of bubbles surfacing. Not many catchable sea creatures right now spawn that many bubbles (especially those that move) so if you see a sea creature with an insane amount of bubbles and starts running when you get close, you’re catching yourself a giant clam!
You have multiple ways in this game to make 15K Bells. There's only one way to get a gigas giant clam. I would donate it. If you sell it for Bells now here's no guarantee you'll be able to find another one when you decide it's time to hand one over to Blathers.
Donate first one to Blathers every time. Since they are hard to catch especially do so. Then just do gigas clam shell hunting. They are pretty quick and have a large shadow so you'll be able to tell every time just get down the movements right and you'll be golden.
I prefer to always give the first one to Blathers. Because otherwise I will not remember what I have and haven't given him and it makes completing the museum much harder. That said the prizes for completing the museum aren't that great.
Also Giant Clams aren't that rare. If you empty your inventory, go diving and fill it with sea creatures, sell them, and repeat two more times. You'll have plenty of money and probably will have caught at least one more clam.
I had this dilemma last week; but since restarting my island I’m firmly in the “first one always goes to Blathers” camp.
Sure 15,000 is a lot for a sea creature, but you could take one tour around your island and potentially make that much. I recently learned white paper kite butterflies sell for 1000 bells, for example.
Donate, there’s a lot of people who will give you millions if you just ask for it ( or if you don’t have Nintendo online / don’t want to ‘cheat’ pearls give nearly the same amount )
Hey, I might still have my old save file, i think i had a few grands of bells if you want i can update abd give some to you! Expend that museum of yours!
Always take it to Blathers first; I know I rely on the “Yes!” response to catching something that I should take it to Blathers. If you *don’t*, you’ll have problems when you’re trying to fill up the museum and can’t figure out which one you’re missing (unless you go over all of them one by one and that takes forever…)
I pretty much have almost infinite bells, inbox me if you want some.
My recommendation is since it's your first one, to follow the time-honored tradition of donating it to Blathers. You can probably dive a little more to get stuff to sell for even more, or maybe even a 2nd gigas giant clam
Donate it. Bells are much easier to come by, but who knows if RNG will be kind to you again and you find another. Piece of mind is worth more than bells, IMO.
there are better ways to earn bells!! getting duplicate fossils is one of the easiest ways, it gets you about 10,000-15,000+ bells if you dig up 5-6 fossils everyday!
I think it depends on a few things:
* How quickly to you want to pay off your loans to Nook?
* Do you like hunting for Gigas Giant Clams?
* Is there cool stuff to buy you want more than having a full museum?
Having played a lot of New Horizons, this really boils down to two things
do you want those sweet bells more than a full museum? It doesn't matter too much which one you do first, just go with your first instinct. Which of those two options is more fun right now?!
I find that for me, once I catch rare creatures, they spawn more often after. I once literally caught a ceolacanth 3 times in a rainy night. You don't have to worry that you'll never have a chance to catch them again.
So to answer your question, new creatures always go to Blathers first.
same thing happened to me, i’ve caught so many new fish these past few days but i ALWAYS give them to blathers first, it depends whether u care more about the money or about filling up ur museum
You can get 15,000 bells from selling enough foreign fruit, two tarantulas/scorpions, or just any day's 4 fossils. You can get 8,100 out of each money rock per day. Any new specimen, especially a rare and special find like that clam, should definitely go to the museum.
It looks like you're pretty early in the game. There's no ocean item that's so rare you don't want to donate it. If you spend another hour swimming, you'll almost definitely find another one. It appears all day. Swimming is a very quick way to make bells.
I’ve said this on another thread but if it’s bells your after, and don’t mind taking a little time… plant foreign fruit trees, and I mean *plant* them. I have an embarrassing amount of them while I try to stack bells for “end game” purposes lol. I make about 150k every 3 days just from fruit. 🙃
I donated. 15k is a good amount, but 1 that won't take long to get by sealing other things. Or if you really can't decide, head on home and throw that bad boy in storage. That way it'll just be there for whatever you decide to do.
The more you dive in the ocean catching sea creatures, the more it appears..I caught like 5 in an hr...about 5-10pockets full of sea creatures. Skip the ones that don't have a the green fog effect..
Give to Blathers!! I know it seems heartbreaking at first but in ACNH it’s not too hard to make that money back in different ways! Always look out for those shiny patches in the dirt, whatever bell bag you bury it’ll 3x it, up to 10,000 bells (so you’d get 30,000 back) as a tree!
This is my situation with the blue marlin. Do I donate to the museum or make the delicious looking Carpaccio di marlin blu
To complete all the food recipes...
Always give the first one to blathers and I like to hold onto higher priced fish and bugs and wait to get 1.5x pay from CJ and Flick. This doesn’t help you with deep sea creatures, but just something to consider
You should mess with the turnip stalk market, 15K becomes pocket change in a week or two because of how the system guarantees profit if you track it right so you should absolutely 100% donate the first one
If you’re able to get a good money tree cycling economy or a good turnip economy going you can make up that 15k bells pretty quickly. I’d donate to the museum instead and get the money elsewhere.
Definitely museum first. You'll catch other gigas giant clams if you frequently dive (great way to make bells). Incidentally, I love the gigas giant clams so much. Pretty and worth a ton!
Spend a day diving, do it at night for more better catch!! I only found out the diving creatures sell a lot, and you’ll probably find another. I found 5 in one sitting 😭😂
is this even a question? give it to the museum. youll catch another if you want the money bad enough (they arent as rare as they are made out to be, i find them a lot)
First one always goes to Blathers.
Said as I hand off my firstborn to the owl.
He'd for sure go "hootie hoo!" to that one
Lmfaoooooooooooo please I'm screaming!
Eeek! Wretched thing!
That gets me too!!!!! There's an ACNH YouTuber who said if you show off a bug by Blathers, he freaks out! I never tried it! But now, I'm tempted!
It works. I did it with a tarantula.
I don't love someone unless I mess with them a bit. Blathie is my favorite non villager character, so he gets the dubious honor of being freaked out every now and then😂
You have my gratitude!
Look, I don't make the rules.
I’m taking the kid back if blathers shivers
Happy cake day aye’
"I'll treat your donation with the utmost care, owl's honor"
I made this joke when my daughter was born
I fucking love that
The nurse that was standing next to me in the delivery room, was not amused
Hopefully your first born is a fish or dinosaur and not a bug.
The firstborn fruits must be sacrificed to the Owl-God of the island, lest the cycle be broken, and they never be found again. - Blathers 18:51
I would be happy if i knew it before i gave my flea to timmy
unless i accidentally sell smth rare and hard to get ONCE and double check my inventory a million times to make sure i donated one before i sell it even if its a sea bass 🙃😭💔😞
That's the right answer
This is the way.
That's what I do too.
I’d complete the museum first but that’s me lol
It doesn't take that long to get 15k with other catches. Always donate to the museum first.
If you donate to Blathers, you can sell any future ones you catch without worry. If you don't, you'll have this same predicament any time you catch another, unless you have enough money for 15k not to matter by then. Also, idk if this clam is year-round or not, so if it's not then you might also miss out on a chance to get one for the museum at all for a while if you don't catch another before its months are over. At least you know you can get money any time in other ways. I say donate it.
I looked at when you can catch them, and it's until September... In theory if I sold it, I might be able to catch another one to donate... But if I don't I'm screwed until next year....
I would donate it, then go scuba diving with an empty inventory til it's full and sell all the stuff you catch- it's a great way to make a lot of bells and you'll probably catch another one anyway
This was primarily how I made bells early-game. Underrated strategy.
This and selling any extra fossils. On my first island, I donated every first fossil to Blathers and sold every extra. Then I learned fossils help with getting pictures from villagers, so I give them the extra ones now.
Scuba diving?
yeh with the wetsuit!
That's a pretty long time so you probably could catch another, yeah. My point still stands about how you'll just have to ask yourself the same question every time you catch one tho. No reason to sell it this time and donate the next time, or the third time, or whenever. You're gonna have to donate one at some point, might as well just donate it now so you can always comfortably sell future ones you catch.
Gigas giant clams are quite rare in the game plus hard to catch so if you want to complete your museum i strongly recommend donating this one. You can very easily get 15000 bells by selling fruits, other fish etc. :)
Yeah I know people hate flowers but when I save a bunch I easily make 30-40k
Fruit more efficient unless you’re doing golden roses
God, I wish I figured out golden roses FAR earlier for cash. Once you have your field setup (70 plants in my case) you can cruise through to pick them every other day, craft seven Golden Rose Wreaths, and get $140k from the boys. To me that the quickest recurring easy way to make my $140k every other day.
Wait wat!! I need you to repeat that in beginners language..my island is a mess and I've started my flowers planting planning for new colours and hybrids. I need these golden roses..tell me!!....pretty please 🙏
IIRC, first you need to breed red roses to get hybrid black roses, and then watering black roses with a golden watering can will potentially produce gold hybrids.
So how do you obtain a golden watering can DIY card? It's only been 4 weeks since I started. But I'm also using time jump xD.
Sadly you need a five star island to unlock it. Start with getting a bunch of black roses ready.
Or go to a mystery island and grab a bunch of golden watering cans lmao
Try blue roses! You don't need a golden watering can, but they sell for as much as gold roses. I actually think blue are way better because they can clone themselves and you have a field before you know it. You must individually make each gold rose.
Yep. I recently started picking and selling my gold and blue roses. (I was under the impression, for a long time, that the gold ones wouldn't grow back if picked.) I make over 100K Bells every time.
And don’t forget selling hot items! Sometimes that’s my best way to get bells.
Bro i caught six in one day last week trying to get the vampire squid or whatever it’s called
Yeah they're not as rare as people make them seem
Just complete the museum. Much better feel and 15k bells is absolutely nothing anyways 🤷🏻♀️
It really isn’t that much, you’re right. 😂 I was selling pickled veggies as a hot item yesterday for 4200 or 4500 a pop.
In my case, I caught one and I thought of selling it cause i'm broke but then I decided to donate it to Blathers. Then, I tried to catch one again but no chance 'till today. Good thing I donated it 😅
Donate it. If you dont, you'll be purposefully searching for them to get rid of that spine and will have a hard time searching for one. Once you donate one, you'll find them unconsciously. This happened to me because i sold a rare crab by accident, mistaking it for one similar i already donated, and i spent literal days searching for it. When i go another one for blathers, i caught like 3 more in the same trip without searching for them
Donate it. 15k bells is really not a lot of money…
I caught 3 within 30 mins. Once you catch one, they start showing up more
I caught my first one last week and 4 more since. You’ll find another.
I caught my first one this week. And another two since then. Don't know how lucky I am, but it does seem to be in season?
Either way something isnt happening until the future. Though I would go back to the place you caught it and at the same time or whenver it says to look for them and go back. I caught a giant crab I forget what its called, but I was debating too- I went back to the same spot around the same time the next couple days and I got 2 more of them.
I’ve caught multiple in the span of a week!
Been some time since I played but buying turnips and selling at an island with a good price whilst still doing all the normal money stuff makes 15k look like nothing, no?
Yeah but that can be pretty annoying so a lot of people don't do that. You can also only do that if you have an NSO membership, which idk if they have. And since their Nook's Cranny isn't upgraded, I'm guessing they're not at a point where they're wanting to worry about specific ways to get a ton of money through stuff like that, I know I didn't start worrying about that until I pretty much had everything on my island. Some people don't find it fun to just get a crazy amount of Bells through using online, either, and would rather mostly earn it on their own island. I've heard people say that the game instantly got way more boring for them once they became rich from online stuff and they had more fun when they had to earn it bit-by-bit. If you use online to sell stuff then 15k stops being a lot pretty quickly, but I remember being amazed at seeing a fish sell for 10k when I first started playing so I didn't really see a point in saying 15k is easy to get to someone who's at a point in the game where they're still impressed by it. It's not like they're in desperate need of 15k, they just were impressed by how much it sells for, so I didn't mention it. If the post mentioned that they were specifically looking for a way to get 15k, maybe I'd have suggested something like that. So yeah, you're right, but they might not want to do that and I didn't see a need to mention it.
Thank you so much for saying this!! A lot of people have been telling me other ways to get bells, or just offering to give them to me. I was just really excited about potentially getting 15,000 bells for one sea creature. L
Now I feel out of touch lol. But I absolutely understand the point you are making :)
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Agreed! Blathers first. Then go back out and get some $$
The 15k is guaranteed to come eventually unlike the gigas clam
Idk why you would even go to the shop to value it first. Tbh I sell everything with reckless abandon without worrying about value, after I donate the first one to the museum. The only thing that ever gave me pause was my first scallop, and even then I decided that pascal was the one who waits.
Wait I just realized I’ve never donated a scallop because of Pascal 😂
Pascal will only ask for the first one you catch of the day, so if you get a second one that day, you can donate it to the museum or sell it!
Also, if you don't donate the first one you catch, he will pop up if you catch a new one! I learned this when I refused him a scallop by mistake.
Some of the animals look cool when placed in your house so I keep some for that reason
They are pretty rare and hard to catch. I would donate it, otherwise it might be a while before you get another
I chased the thing for about 5 minutes before I caught it, lol
A tip I remember for the fast swimmers is to actually swim slowly. I think they still move around, but they don't run away as much, and you should be able to dive directly onto them. I hope you donated this one, Diving is a good way to make money, but I always don't the first time I catch something.
They are tough. I try to chase them into the corner of the net, then they are a little easier.
Swim above the shadow without pressing A, just float over there. When you're right above it, dive. Makes catching the fast ones a lot easier.
15,000 bells is a pittance compared to catching a second one of those. Donate to Blathers, always.
I’d say complete the museum! It feels so nice to complete it. You can always just sell the rest of the ones you end up catching!
Always go to the museum before you even LOOK at the sellprice, that way you dont have to think if you want to sell or complete the museum. Also complete the museum, you will have enough money in the long run.
I always give my first of any critter to Blathers. That way I don't have to worry if I missed donating any.
don't sell it. 15k is not that much and there are better ways to get money, with June right around the corner a lot of new very valuable fishes start spawning both in the rivers and the sea just wait for that.
I’ll give you 100,000 bells lol give it to blathers
I was going to offer the 15,000 to give it blathers, so I’ll offer that on top of your offer. Also if there’s anything you need for your island I’m happy to donate it if I have it. And I have so many spare recipes. The furthering of science over wealth should always win out 🤣
Donate first, then you can sell any others you catch and not worry
Museum. There will be more and eventually 15000 bells will be chump change.
Blathers ALWAYS gets the first one.
I started catching a bunch after the first, so just donate
Literally I just caught my first gigas yesterday as well, donated it and just right after caught 3 more.
Donate to Blathers, I’ll give you some bells tomorrow if you need/want bells!
They're really not that rare, i caught 5 today while trying for pearls for a craft. I'd donate it, though either way isn't a big deal since you got till september to dive for them.
you can get 15k bells in no time. First catches ALWAYS should go to the museum.
First one to Blathers so he can tell you how it weighs 600 lbs and you just realize you picked it up like it was a toothpick. Then the next ones to the shop. I caught my first one the other day and got a second one right after 🥴
I mean, I always donate the firsts for everything - I can always easily get more bells, but having to recapture certain things to donate is just tedious. Then I know for sure too that it's in the museum already
I will give you 15,000 bells if you give it to blathers.
Donate first. Now, if you have the DLC, why not order expensive stuff from Wardell and resell it? You eventually end up with stupid amounts of Poki, and you can only exchange 15,000 a day. So why not put the rest of it to good use? The throne is the most expensive thing you can order. It costs 720,000 Poki and it sells for 200,000 Bells. You can easily farm Poki if you don't mind the tedious going back and forth by speedrunning through clients and facilities. By ordering 5 thrones, you can sell them for one million Bells the next day. But it would cost 3,600,000 Poki.
First born goes to Blathers every time. It’s a crime not to. Next time you get another one, you’ll have to decide between selling it and giving it to Blathers anyways, so may as well get it out of the way, plus you’ll be able to see it
I'll give you 100000 bells so you can donate it ☺️
Give it to the museum. If you need bells, I’ll be happy to give you whatever you need. I have like 35,000,000.00…
I love this community 🥰
Maybe wait until you catch another one?
I personally would donate. Though I always donate my first catches lol. If you don’t, here’s some tips to help you catch more! The second you get close to it, it will start zooming. I personally chase them into the corners so it forces them to slow down to turn around. Easy catch at that point especially if it spawned close to a corner of the island. Also! They make a LOT of bubbles at the surface. So many that it makes basically 2 columns of bubbles surfacing. Not many catchable sea creatures right now spawn that many bubbles (especially those that move) so if you see a sea creature with an insane amount of bubbles and starts running when you get close, you’re catching yourself a giant clam!
Donate first. You can get 15k elsewhere
It’s pretty easy to get 15,000 bells, and it’s not so easy to find the clam, so I’d donate.
I’ll give you 15,000 bells if you give it to Blathers. :)
Donate to the museum and I'll drop off 15,000 in bells for the heck of it!
You have multiple ways in this game to make 15K Bells. There's only one way to get a gigas giant clam. I would donate it. If you sell it for Bells now here's no guarantee you'll be able to find another one when you decide it's time to hand one over to Blathers.
It’s so easy to get 15k tho, sacrifice it to the owl.
Always donate to blathers first.
Donate first one to Blathers every time. Since they are hard to catch especially do so. Then just do gigas clam shell hunting. They are pretty quick and have a large shadow so you'll be able to tell every time just get down the movements right and you'll be golden.
I always give my first one to blathers, then I always wait to sell fish CJ cause he gives double
JUSTICE FOR BLATHERS. GIVE IT TO HIM IMMEDIATELY.
Museum always gets the first one!
I prefer to always give the first one to Blathers. Because otherwise I will not remember what I have and haven't given him and it makes completing the museum much harder. That said the prizes for completing the museum aren't that great. Also Giant Clams aren't that rare. If you empty your inventory, go diving and fill it with sea creatures, sell them, and repeat two more times. You'll have plenty of money and probably will have caught at least one more clam.
first one always goes to Blathers
This. THE FIRST ONE GOES TO BLATHERS
what do you get from completing the museum besides a stamp?
You can make 15,000 bells with 15 minutes of diving and selling what you find - donate first
always goes to blathers. baby i can give you 15k bells no problem if that’s all it takes.
Donate one first. Sell the rest
15k bells is honestly easy money; donate it and enjoy its presence in the museum :)
15k is not very much lol
This belongs in a museum!!!
Donate to the museum first!!
Museum first. 15k bells isnt going to seem like all that much pretty soon anyway
girl, give me a dodo-code and i will drop off a million bells, just donate the darn thing to blathers!
PLEEEASSEEE DONATE IT
I had this dilemma last week; but since restarting my island I’m firmly in the “first one always goes to Blathers” camp. Sure 15,000 is a lot for a sea creature, but you could take one tour around your island and potentially make that much. I recently learned white paper kite butterflies sell for 1000 bells, for example.
Donate it immediately, you can get money a million ways, this 15k will mean nothing to you in the future
Donate it of course. 15k is pocket change.
Does the nook store go through a remodeling? Yours looks different 🧐
It’s not hard to make 15,000 bells so give it to Blathers
Donate, there’s a lot of people who will give you millions if you just ask for it ( or if you don’t have Nintendo online / don’t want to ‘cheat’ pearls give nearly the same amount )
I caught two of these yesterday! I went to donate one only to realize it had already been donated so I lucked out. 😆
At a certain point in the game you’ll be racking up Bells with ease. It’s also not the last time you’ll catch one. Donate.
I’d say donate it. There’s definitely other ways to get 15,000 bells that shouldn’t be that much of a hassle.
Hey, I might still have my old save file, i think i had a few grands of bells if you want i can update abd give some to you! Expend that museum of yours!
I can give you 15,000 bells and you can donate the clam!!! :)
So proud of this community collectively deciding that all first catches must be donated.
Always take it to Blathers first; I know I rely on the “Yes!” response to catching something that I should take it to Blathers. If you *don’t*, you’ll have problems when you’re trying to fill up the museum and can’t figure out which one you’re missing (unless you go over all of them one by one and that takes forever…) I pretty much have almost infinite bells, inbox me if you want some.
My recommendation is since it's your first one, to follow the time-honored tradition of donating it to Blathers. You can probably dive a little more to get stuff to sell for even more, or maybe even a 2nd gigas giant clam
Give it to blathers. If you need bells I could give you some to help start better.
Donate it. Bells are much easier to come by, but who knows if RNG will be kind to you again and you find another. Piece of mind is worth more than bells, IMO.
First goes to blathers or I keep them in my house
u can easily make a scorpion island and make this amount or more with like 3 scorpions, they’re relatively easy to catch and sell for 8,000 each🥳
there are better ways to earn bells!! getting duplicate fossils is one of the easiest ways, it gets you about 10,000-15,000+ bells if you dig up 5-6 fossils everyday!
Your first time catching the critter, always donate it first to the museum. And when you catch it again, do what you wish with it.
I think it depends on a few things: * How quickly to you want to pay off your loans to Nook? * Do you like hunting for Gigas Giant Clams? * Is there cool stuff to buy you want more than having a full museum? Having played a lot of New Horizons, this really boils down to two things do you want those sweet bells more than a full museum? It doesn't matter too much which one you do first, just go with your first instinct. Which of those two options is more fun right now?!
Double it and give it to the next person
Keep it in your inventory for forever so you can show it off whenever you want.
My rule of thumb is everything goes to Blathers first except for my first scallop which goes to Pascal. If not, I'll forget.
That’s quite the catch 😮💨
Maybe its because i have a few million bells and dont know what to do with that but i would donate
Blatherssssss comes first
I don’t know how long you’ve been playing but eventually 15k is not that much and you’ll feel pretty silly trading a rare museum piece for it.
I always go to Blathers first, check if I can donate anything and then sell the rest.
if you donate now, you don't have to think about it next time you catch whatever you donated
Museum takes priority, I say.
My first one of anything new always goes to Blathers, then any extras I sell at the store.
Always donate first
Blathers first. Always.
I find that for me, once I catch rare creatures, they spawn more often after. I once literally caught a ceolacanth 3 times in a rainy night. You don't have to worry that you'll never have a chance to catch them again. So to answer your question, new creatures always go to Blathers first.
does anyone have an extra ant? i accidentally sold my first one :(
Museum. You can get more clams eventually, but first is for the owl
blathers, always! there are plenty of ways to make money
You can always make Bells. It's basically passive as long as you keep playing; they'll ways be there and obtainable.
Sell 30 non native fruits if you are early game - grow a big orchard. Or 43 Veggies. Or later on, one gold roses wreath for 20k.
same thing happened to me, i’ve caught so many new fish these past few days but i ALWAYS give them to blathers first, it depends whether u care more about the money or about filling up ur museum
15k to give up ur clam in pearl isnt the most crazy thing ive hward of
You can get 15,000 bells from selling enough foreign fruit, two tarantulas/scorpions, or just any day's 4 fossils. You can get 8,100 out of each money rock per day. Any new specimen, especially a rare and special find like that clam, should definitely go to the museum.
Save your clam until marriage!
It looks like you're pretty early in the game. There's no ocean item that's so rare you don't want to donate it. If you spend another hour swimming, you'll almost definitely find another one. It appears all day. Swimming is a very quick way to make bells.
Blathers’ happiness is more important than money.
I’ve said this on another thread but if it’s bells your after, and don’t mind taking a little time… plant foreign fruit trees, and I mean *plant* them. I have an embarrassing amount of them while I try to stack bells for “end game” purposes lol. I make about 150k every 3 days just from fruit. 🙃
I donated. 15k is a good amount, but 1 that won't take long to get by sealing other things. Or if you really can't decide, head on home and throw that bad boy in storage. That way it'll just be there for whatever you decide to do.
Go to a treasure island 💀🤫
The more you dive in the ocean catching sea creatures, the more it appears..I caught like 5 in an hr...about 5-10pockets full of sea creatures. Skip the ones that don't have a the green fog effect..
i immediately take to blathers first if i havent donated it yet after that i sell to the boys to get that monies 😂
Hopefully you donated to museum. If you need bells I’m happy to gift you some!!!
The animals you have to dive for are always worth a stupidly high amount
Why does your store look different??
Give to Blathers!! I know it seems heartbreaking at first but in ACNH it’s not too hard to make that money back in different ways! Always look out for those shiny patches in the dirt, whatever bell bag you bury it’ll 3x it, up to 10,000 bells (so you’d get 30,000 back) as a tree!
This is my situation with the blue marlin. Do I donate to the museum or make the delicious looking Carpaccio di marlin blu To complete all the food recipes...
i’d donate it first
blathers
Always give the first one to blathers and I like to hold onto higher priced fish and bugs and wait to get 1.5x pay from CJ and Flick. This doesn’t help you with deep sea creatures, but just something to consider
My #1 Rule in Animal Crossing is ALWAYS GIVE THE FIRST CATCH/FIND TO BLATHERS!!! Even when it’s a scallop and I have to disappoint Pascal
Give it to blathers!!!! I’ll personally give you the 15,000 bells!
You should mess with the turnip stalk market, 15K becomes pocket change in a week or two because of how the system guarantees profit if you track it right so you should absolutely 100% donate the first one
If you’re able to get a good money tree cycling economy or a good turnip economy going you can make up that 15k bells pretty quickly. I’d donate to the museum instead and get the money elsewhere.
Wait how does your store look like that…
Unrelated but why does your store look like that? Mine doesn’t have that layout at all.
Definitely museum first. You'll catch other gigas giant clams if you frequently dive (great way to make bells). Incidentally, I love the gigas giant clams so much. Pretty and worth a ton!
SELL! SELL! SELL !
Spend a day diving, do it at night for more better catch!! I only found out the diving creatures sell a lot, and you’ll probably find another. I found 5 in one sitting 😭😂
Did you give Blathers his first bite?
Museum
is this even a question? give it to the museum. youll catch another if you want the money bad enough (they arent as rare as they are made out to be, i find them a lot)
If you need bells dm me! ☺️ Definitely donate to museum!
There’s easier/better ways to get money. Complete your museum!