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Happy Aquarium added 16 brand-new giftable items this morning, bringing the total number of gifts players have to choose from to an impressive 44. The new gifts are mostly new plants and corals, so if any of your Facebook friends have been wanting new botanic decoration options, they’re in luck. Assuming you’re a good friend and will send them a couple, of course.

A partial list of the new additions: Myrio Green Plant, Green Barclaya Plant, MoneyWort Plant, Red Urchin. Most of the new gifts are available to high-level players only, so I wasn’t able to gather a complete list.

I’m amused that my little mini-rant about Facebook games continually reinventing themselves has come to pass so quickly. Besides these new gifts, there is a strong hint that Happy Aquarium will be adding three brand-new fish, in the next couple of days.

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I’ve been digging Happy Island quite a bit the past few weeks. The game is laid back, has a nice graphical style, relaxing music, and has no failure state. Every time you check in, your island is guaranteed to be a little bit farther along than it was the time before.

But, one aspect of the game that I don’t enjoy is that you never know what your shops and attractions will upgrade into. Every building can be upgraded twice, but there is no way to know whether the time and money investment will turn an attraction into something cool, or something lame. But… never fear. Social Game Central is here to help.

We have snapped pics of what the first ten buildings look like in their final, upgraded form. If anyone has any fully-upgraded buildings besides these 10, snap a pic and leave it in the comments. We’ll add it to this post.

The Happy Island Petunia Pavilion upgrades into the Blossom Boutique:

The Happy Island Sea Shell Stand Upgrades into Poseidon’s Grotto:

The Happy Island Rickety Dock Upgrades into the Marina:

The Happy Island Luau upgrades into the Cultural Center:

The Happy Island Greek Theater upgrades into the Colosseum:

The Happy Island Bazaar upgrades into the Emporium:

The Happy Island Airport upgrades into the Tiki International Airport:

The Happy Island Nero’s Inn upgrades into Nero’s Palace and Casino:

The Happy Island Fruit Stand upgrades into the Souvenir Stand:

The Happy Island Beach Bungalow upgrades into the Tiki Tower Regency:

More Happy Island building upgrade info coming soon!

All you Happy Pet owners (see what I did there?), I hope you’re feeling generous. Crowdstar continued its week of Happy Pet updates, this time with a collection of nine new gifts. The team has been busy, this week. First game engine updates (pick up and move your pet), and then two separate rounds of item additions, and now this. A complete list of the new gifts:

Teddy Bear
Gold Candleabra
Short Roman Column
Tall Roman Column
Rubber Ducky
Gold Antique Mirror
Small Barrel Cactus
Toy Plane
French Urn

A pessimist might say that this is a very random list of new gifts. But I say Crowdstar just wanted to ensure there was something for everyone. Check out the new gifts, below (click for full-size):

Happy Aquarium earlier today doubled the number of tanks players can have, from four to eight. Good news for all you hardcore fish fiends out there. (Alternates to “fish fiends” I considered included fish mongers, fishwives, and fish lovers).

If memory serves, eight is also the maximum number of tanks you’re allowed to have in Fishville, a competing Facebook aquarium game. Coincidence? Probably. But it’s much more fun to think about these aquarium games as being locked in epic battle. Every blow the games swap benefits us, the players.

I’m just a casual Happy Aquarium fan (I dig the little fish training minigame), but hey, DOUBLE the tank space sounds like a pretty sweet deal, to me.

Not the most exciting news, but no improvement to a social game is too small for us here at SocialGameCentral. Today, Happy Pets added the ability to pick up your pets and move them around the room. Complete with amusingly cute animations and expressions.

For those keeping track, Zynga’s Petville also allows players to relocate pets with amusing results. Playfish’s Pet Society does not have this function. Let the social pet game wars commence! Competition leads to more full-featured games.