All fish, bugs, and sea creatures available in Animal Crossing: New Horizons in August

All the little critters.

Aidan O'Brien

Published: Jul 24, 2020 09:24 am

Each month, some changes will be made in Animal Crossing: New Horizons to the bugs and fish that will be available to catch. All these little creatures are seasonal, meaning that they only have certain times of the year that you can catch them.

Fish

Northern Hemisphere

Anchovy	200	Sea	4am – 9pm
Angelfish	3,000	River	4pm – 9am
Arapaima	10,000	River	4pm – 9am
Arowana	10,000	River	4pm – 9am
Barred Knifejaw	5,000	Sea	All day
Barreleye	15,000	Sea	9pm – 4am
Betta	2,500	River	9am – 4pm
Black Bass	400	River	All day
Blue Marlin	10,000	Pier	All day
Bluegill	180	River	9am – 4pm

Butterfly Fish	1,000	Sea	All day
Carp	300	Pond	All day
Catfish	800	Pond	4pm – 9am
Clown Fish	650	Sea	All day
Coelacanth	15,000	Sea (Raining)	All day
Crawfish	200	Pond	All day
Crucian Carp	160	River	All day
Dace	240	River	4pm – 9am
Dorado	15,000	River	4am – 9pm
Freshwater Goby	400	River	4pm – 9am

Frog	120	Pond	All day
Gar	6,000	Pond	4pm – 9am
Giant Snakehead	5,500	Pond	9am – 4pm
Giant Trevally	4,500	Pier	All day
Goldfish	1,300	Pond	All day
Great White Shark	15,000	Sea	4pm – 9am
Guppy	1,300	River	9am – 4pm
Hammerhead Shark	8,000	Sea	4pm – 9am
Horse Mackerel	150	Sea	All day
Killifish	300	Pond	All day

Koi	4,000	Pond	4pm – 9am
Mahi-mahi	6,000	Pier	All day
Moray Eel	2,000	Sea	All day
Napoleonfish	10,000	Sea	4am – 9pm
Neon Tetra	500	River	9am – 4pm
Nibble Fish	1,500	River	9am – 4pm
Ocean Sunfish	4,000	Sea	4am – 9pm
Olive Flounder	800	Sea	All day
Pale Chub	200	River	9am – 4pm
Piranha	2,500	River	9am – 4pm & 9pm – 4am

Pop-eyed Goldfish	1,300	Pond	9am – 4pm
Puffer Fish	250	Sea	All day
Rainbowfish	800	River	9am – 4pm
Ranchu Goldfish	4,500	Pond	9am – 4pm
Ray	3,000	Sea	4am – 9pm
Red Snapper	3,000	Sea	All day
Ribbon Eel	600	Sea	All day
Saddled Bichir	4,000	River	9pm – 4am
Saw Shark	12,000	Sea	4pm – 9am
Sea Bass	400	Sea	All day

Sea Horse	1,100	Sea	All day
Snapping Turtle	5,000	River	9pm – 4am
Soft-shelled Turtle	3,750	River	4pm – 9am
Squid	500	Sea	All day
Suckerfish	1,500	Sea	All day
Surgeonfish	1,000	Sea	All day
Sweetfish	900	River	All day
Tilapia	800	River	All day
Whale Shark	1,000	Sea	All day
Zebra Turkeyfish	500	Sea	All day

Southern Hemisphere

Anchovy	200	Sea	4am – 9pm
Barreleye	15,000	Sea	9pm – 4am
Bitterling	900	River	All day
Black Bass	400	River	All day
Blowfish	5,000	Sea	9pm – 4am
Blue Marlin	10,000	Pier	All day
Bluegill	180	River	9am – 4pm
Carp	300	Pond	All day
Coelacanth	15,000	Sea (Raining)	All day
Crucian Carp	160	River	All day

Dab	300	Sea	All day
Dace	240	River	4pm – 9am
Football Fish	2,500	Sea	4pm – 9am
Freshwater Goby	400	River	4pm – 9am
Goldfish	1,300	Pond	All day
Horse Mackerel	150	Sea	All day
Koi	4,000	Pond	4pm – 9am
Oarfish	9,000	Sea	All day
Olive Flounder	800	Sea	All day
Pale Chub	200	River	9am – 4pm

Pond Smelt	500	River	All day
Pop-eyed Goldfish	1,300	Pond	9am – 4pm
Ranchu goldfish	4,500	Pond	9am – 4pm
Red Snapper	3,000	Sea	All day
Sea Bass	400	Sea	All day
Sea Butterfly	1,000	Sea	All day
Squid	500	Sea	All day
Stringfish	15,000	River (Clifftop)	4pm – 9am
Sturgeon	10,000	River (Mouth)	All day
Tuna	7,000	Pier	All day
Yellow Perch	300	River	All day

Bugs

Northern Hemisphere

Agrias Butterfly	3,000	8am – 5pm
Ant	80	All day
Atlas Moth	3,000	7pm – 4am
Bagworm	600	All day
Banded Dragonfly	4,500	8am – 5pm
Blue Weevil Beetle	800	All day
Brown Cicada	250	8am – 5pm
Cicada Shell	10	All day
Citrus Long-horned Beetle	350	All day
Common bluebottle	300	4am – 7pm

Cyclommatus stag	8,000	5pm – 8am
Darner dragonfly	230	8am – 5pm
Diving beetle	800	8am – 7pm
Drone beetle	200	All day
Earth-boring dung beetle	300	All day
Emperor butterfly	4,000	5pm – 8am
Evening cicada	550	4am – 8am & 4pm – 7pm
Flea	70	All day
Fly	60	All day
Giant cicada	500	8am – 5pm

Giant stag	10,000	11pm – 8am
Giant water bug	2,000	7pm – 8am
Giraffe stag	12,000	5pm – 8am
Golden stag	12,000	5pm – 8am
Goliath beetle	8,000	5pm – 8am
Grasshopper	160	8am – 5pm
Great purple emperor	3,000	4am – 7pm
Hermit crab	1,000	7pm – 8am
Horned atlas	8,000	5pm – 8am
Horned dynastid	1,350	5pm – 8am

Horned elephant	8,000	5pm – 8am
Horned hercules	12,000	5pm – 8am
Jewel beetle	2,400	All day
Long locust	200	8am – 7pm
Madagascan sunset moth	2,500	8am – 4pm
Man-faced stink bug	1,000	7pm – 8am
Mantis	430	8am – 5pm
Migratory locust	600	8am – 7pm
Miyama stag	1,000	All day
Mosquito	130	5pm – 4am

Moth	130	7pm – 4am
Orchid mantis	2,400	8am – 5pm
Paper kite butterfly	1,000	8am – 7pm
Pondskater	130	8am – 7pm
Queen Alexandra’s birdwing	4,000	8am – 4pm
Rainbow stag	6,000	7pm – 8am
Rajah Brooke’s birdwing	2,500	8am – 5pm
Rice grasshopper	160	8am – 7pm
Robust cicada	300	8am – 5pm
Rosalia batesi beetle	3,000	All day

Saw stag	2,000	All day
Scarab beetle	10,000	11pm – 8am
Scorpion	8,000	7pm – 4am
Snail	250	All day
Spider	480	7pm – 8am
Stinkbug	120	All day
Tiger beetle	1,500	All day
Tiger butterfly	240	4am – 7pm
Walker cicada	400	8am – 5pm
Walking leaf	600	All day
Walking stick	600	4am – 8am & 5pm – 7pm
Wasp	2,500	All day
Wharf roach	200	All day

Southern Hemisphere

Ant	80	All day
Bagworm	600	All day
Centipede	300	4pm – 11pm
Citrus long-horned beetle	350	All day
Common butterfly	160	4am – 7pm
Damselfly	500	All day
Dung beetle	3,000	All day
Emperor butterfly	4,000	5pm – 8am
Fly	60	All day
Hermit crab	1,000	7pm – 8am

Mole cricket	500	All day
Moth	130	7pm – 4am
Paper kite butterfly	1,000	8am – 7pm
Pill bug	250	11pm – 4pm
Rajah Brooke’s birdwing	2,500	8am – 5pm
Snail	250	All day
Spider	480	7pm – 8am
Tarantula	8,000	7pm – 4am
Tiger beetle	1,500	All day
Wasp	2,500	All day
Wharf roach	200	All day

Sea Creatures

Northern Hemisphere

Abalone	2,000	4pm – 9am
Acorn barnacle	600	All day
Flatworm	700	4pm – 9am
Gazami crab	2,200	All day
Giant isopod	12,000	9am – 4pm & 9pm – 4am
Gigas giant clam	15,000	All day
Horseshoe crab	2,500	9pm – 4am
Mantis shrimp	2,500	4pm – 9am
Moon jellyfish	600	All day
Mussel	1,500	All day

Octopus	1,200	All day
Pearl oyster	2,800	All day
Scallop	1,200	All day
Sea anemone	500	All day
Sea grapes	900	All day
Sea pineapple	1,500	All day
Sea slug	600	All day
Sea star	500	All day
Sea Urchin	1,700	All day
Seaweed	600	All day
Slate pencil urchin	2,000	4pm – 9am
Spotted garden eel	1,100	4am – 9pm
Tiger prawn	3,000	4pm – 9am
Vampire squid	10,000	4pm – 9am
Whelk	1,000	All day

Southern Hemisphere

Abalone	2,000	4pm – 9am
Acorn barnacle	600	All day
Dungeness crab	1,900	All day
Mantis shrimp	2,500	4pm – 9am
Octopus	1,200	All day
Oyster	2,000	All day
Pearl oyster	2,800	All day
Red king crab	8,000	All day
Scallop	1,200	All day
Sea anemone	500	All day
Sea cucumber	500	All day
Sea pig	8,000	All day
Sea slug	600	All day
Sea star	500	All day
Seaweed	600	All day
Snow crab	6,000	All day
Sweet shrimp	1,400	4pm – 9am
Venus’ flower basket	5,000	All day
Whelk	1,000	All day

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