Rainbow fish

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This article is about the cooked version. For the raw version, see Raw rainbow fish.

Rainbow fish
Release	21 November 2006 (Update)
Members	Yes
Quest item	No
Properties
Tradeable	Yes
Equipable	No
Stackable	No
Disassembly	Yes
Noteable	Yes
Edible	Yes
Destroy	Drop
Actions
Backpack	Eat
Values
Value	120 coins
High alch	72 coins
Low alch	48 coins
On death	Reclaimable Reclaim: 58 Sacrifice: 232
Weight	0.4 kg
Examine
Well, this would certainly add some colour to a meal.
Grand Exchange
Exchange	391 coins (info)
Buy limit	10,000
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Advanced data
Item ID	10136
Links	MRID • recipe
FAQ • doc

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A rainbow fish is a food item that heals 875 life points in one bite. Players can make it by cooking a raw rainbow fish on a range or a fire. Doing so requires level 35 Cooking and grants 121 Cooking experience if successful.

The minimum Constitution level to receive the full amount of healing from this food is 35.

Calculator

Enter your Constitution level	name=skillstat_Constitution_level|type=int|value=1|range=9,99|size=4|sublist=calchealing
name=healing|type=output

variables=skillstat_Constitution_level

calchealing|

let(minLevel, 35) let(healAmount, 0) let(healAmountOutOfCombat, 0) let(healOverTimeAmount, 0) let(healOverTimeDuration, 0) let(constitutionLevel, skillstat_Constitution_level) let(itemName, "This")

let(pointsPerLevel, 25) if(healAmount){

 let(pointsPerLevel, healAmount / minLevel)

}

if(constitutionLevel < minLevel){

 let(heal, constitutionLevel * pointsPerLevel)

}{

 let(heal, minLevel * pointsPerLevel)

}

let(heal, floor(heal + 0.000001)) let(healing, itemName + " will heal " + heal + " life points at level " + constitutionLevel + " while in combat.")

if(healOverTimeAmount){

 let(healing, healing + " It will heal an additional " + healOverTimeAmount + " life points over " + healOverTimeDuration + " seconds.")

}

if(healAmountOutOfCombat){

 let(pointsPerLevelOutOfCombat, healAmountOutOfCombat / minLevel)
 if (constitutionLevel < minLevel){
   let(healOutOfCombat, constitutionLevel * pointsPerLevelOutOfCombat)
 }{
   let(healOutOfCombat, minLevel * pointsPerLevelOutOfCombat)
 }
 let(healOutOfCombat, floor(healOutOfCombat + 0.000001))
 let(healing, healing + " It will heal " + healOutOfCombat + " life points while out of combat.")

}

The rainbow fish is nowhere near as popular as other fish, such as the lobster, which heals 1200 life points and is usually cheaper. The fish is easier to obtain if you are not considering the option of buying food, as this can be fished at the fishing spots near the Barbarian Village, at a lower Fishing level, and faster. This is also close to the Grand Exchange and Varrock. You are required to use stripy feathers to catch them.

Rainbow fish can also be looted from Gourmet implings.

You can change the default setting from getting salmons and trouts to rainbow fishes with fly fishing by going into the Settings → Gameplay → Skills and experience → Construction → Aquarium settings → Featherless Fly fishing. You need to have unlock all the perks of the aquarium for this ability.

Creation

Rainbow fish

Level	XP
35	110 (121)	4 (2.4s)		391
Servings	1		LP	875
Requirements
Burn Level					64
Members only
Requires a range or a fire
Ingredients
Item			Quantity	Price	Total
	Raw rainbow fish		1	791	791
Profit					−400

Drop sources

This is an auto-generated list (update now). For all sources of this item, see here (include RDT). For help, see the FAQ.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity	Members
Gourmet impling jar	?	5 (noted)	Rare	N/A
Gourmet impling	28	5 (noted)	Rare	N/A
Grotworm	63	2	5/100

Disassembly

Rainbow fish
Disassembly category	Food and herbs
Disassembly XP	1.0
Item quantity required	1
Material count	1
Base junk chance	?  61.5% Your actual junk chance depends on your junk chance reduction researched. See the table below for all values, and Junk for more information. Reduction Junk chance None 1 61.5% 1 34 60.9 2 49 59.7 3 64 58.5 4 69 57.2 5 78 56.0 6 83 54.2 7 91 52.9 8 95 51.1 9 105 49.2
Common materials
Organic parts	89/100
Uncommon materials
Crafted parts	8/100
Rare materials
Living components	1/100
Healthy components	1/100
Enhancing components	1/100

Achievement

• Fishy Dishes ( 30) – Sample all of the listed fish dishes.

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included - see here for how to help out!

• patch 7 November 2011 (Update):
  • Rainbow fish can no longer be caught on a free world.

• update 21 November 2006 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Despite being called rainbow fish, they only have four colours (yellow, light blue/turquoise, dark blue, and grey).
• Free players used to be able to catch these fish until an update on 7 November 2011.