Marine Aquarium 2.6 Hack 3.1.1 + Redeem Codes

Marine Aquarium 2.6 is a port of the Mac/PC version created years ago. I used to own them and presently own version 3.0 for my iMac so I am familiar with the quality of work by this company. In my opinion, this app is on par with their work on computer platforms considering the limitations of iPod Touch/iPhone. First off, the graphics using Retina 4 display is pretty good. The fish and the background objects in the tank standout very nice. If you are looking for an aquarium game that involves feeding and growing fish, this is not for you. If you are looking for a relaxing aquarium app with nice sound and good graphics, this is a good choice. The app could have some nice enhancements that would give it 5 stars in my opinion and I ask the authors to consider these. First, allowing some background music might be a plus. Second, having more control over fish selection would be nice as well. Third, and most important, having features that allow auto-zoom and auto panning would really benefit this app. I use it at work when I am writing my notes and I find it a pain to manually move the focus around in the tank. Otherwise, this is a good app and I look forward to any improvements (hopefully). A port of version 3.2 would be worth the money for me. Thanks.

As far as looks go, this app has amazing graphics. The fish look and move incredibly realistically and the coral decorations, bubbles and light-ripple effects are probably the best I've seen in any aquarium app, though I find that the bubble sound effects actually get on my nerves rather than soothe me; it's too fast and high-pitched. While Marine Aquarium looks great, its shortcomings are in its complete lack of features. Basically you just watch the fish and you can control the brightness of the background and foreground. There's no interaction with the fish and you can't choose which types you want in the tank as it randomly generates different fish everytime you open the app. The lack of tank customization is another thing. You're stuck with one coral reef and one gradient background and it can become boring after a while. There are far better aquarium simulations available in the app store, however, if you're just looking for a pretty scene to look at and you don't care about the camera following fish, feeding them or any of that, then this app certainly achieves it, all while looking incredibly gorgeous. Bottom line is: it's basically like a 3D fish screensaver (and maybe that's what the developers were going for). If you're looking for interaction and customization, keep searching; but if all you're after is a realistic fish scene, look no further.

I bought the original screensaver version of this app for my iMac years ago, and it's still the most realistic looking aquarium app I've ever seen. I love it, and am glad I found the iPad version.

I don't mind the lack of interactivity or the fact that the objects in the tank aren't customizable - it's relaxing to me just watch the fish swim around, and the aquarium the developers have designed is very colorful and realistic.

What I would like to see are two things:

(1) When the "more than one of a single species of fish" is selected, it would be nice of each fish of a single species varied slightly in size. Though I don't know how the graphics engine for this app works, I would think this could be done by randomly scaling each fish model up or down within about a 10% range.

(2) I would love to see more Atlantic/Caribbean fish, especially some of those native to the Florida Keys. How about a Sergeant Major, Rainbow Parrotfish, Queen Triggerfish or Bluehead Wrasse, just to name a few?

Aquarian Filters and oxygen bubblers make different sounds. It's controlled by the bubble size, the air pressure and water condition. I like higher frequency and faster bubble rates. Folks that subjective.

I agree though, more backgrounds would be nice. More fish which also ties into being able to pick the fish you want but this is only a $1.99 app and for my money the quality of the images and the best looking fish I've seen, we definitely got our monies worth IMHO.

Coming from a fish lover, this app is great! The most realistic features I've seen in any other app...I've been looking for a while! This is also great for kids! I turn it on in my son's (4 years old) room at bed time on my iPad, he goes straight to sleep. The bubbles and the movement of the fish relaxes him and turns bedtime into a fun time! He likes to point out the fish he likes and then he lays down and watches them until he falls asleep. I can't say enough about this app! I love it!! Well done!

Fish move naturally; it's just pretty; very relaxing; all the good things about having an aquarium without the hassles of real-life maintenance, etc. Also, you get to have fish peacefully co-exist that wouldn't "in real life." (Some can be very territorial—and the lionfish would gobble up the blue damsels like popcorn—ha!) This does what aquariums do best—relax the observer. I also like that it doesn't have stupid features like tapping on the glass (which is never cool).

This is just about everything I would want out of a virtual fish tank: realistic fish with great lighting. Truly beautiful, and having had a real fish tank before this has just about all the benefits without the work.

I would suggest one feature enhancement: the sleep feature. Right now you can select whether the iOS device goes to sleep when the app is running or not, depending on whether it's plugged in or not.

I think it would be nice to have a sleep timer on it. It is nice to drift off to sleep with the glow of the fish tank (and watching them swim is peaceful and conducive to falling asleep) but I don't want it on all night. Even being able to select 15, 30, 45 or 60 minute increments for it to run would be very useful.

Other than that, great app.

(oh and I agree with another poster that the bubble sound isn't very soothing)

Live this screensaver growing up and thrilled to have it in my pocket. One bug I’ve encountered is that I can’t change the tank background color like I used to be able to in the screensaver making it a sold black background. When I tap on the background color square in settings, it just unchecks then scene.

This has been the screensaver on all of my Macs since it was released. I'd rate the Mac version 5+ stars.

As for iPhone version 2.6.2, I don’t mind that this is a stripped down player nearly as much as I am disappointed that it doesn’t support full screen on an iPhone 5 or later.

It would be great to see a refresh that fixes this. Until then, three stars...

I have owned the original PC version, then the upgraded version for PC, and now the iPhone app version. All of them look amazing, and run very well. I hope a future upgrade for iPhone app version includes the crystal clock for the current time. Thanks, keep up the great work.