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Product Information Have you always dreamed of owning anexotic fresh or salt-water fish tank for your home, but the cost and maintenance was just too much? Your dream has come true! AquaZone is the desktop garden that delivers a state-of-the-art digital aquarium for your PC! An aquarium so vibrant, solife-like, you will swear the fish are real! It's so easy! No complicated set-up or clean up is required! Just pick your favorite tank and as many of your favorite fresh or salt-water fish from the 20 provided, and you are on your way to becominga connoisseur of aquatic wildlife! Pick one of eight included tanks, and stock it with as many fish as you like! No water. No work. It's the ultimate aquarium! Includes | Salt Water Fish - Clark's Anemonefish
- Blue Devil
- Common Clown
- Three-Spot Damselfish
- Black-TailedHumbug
Fresh Water Fish - Angelfish
- Half Black Angelfish
- Black Veil Tail Angelfish
- Glasscat
- Wakin Goldfish
- Black Ranchu Goldfish
- Small Red Goldfish
- Calico Goldfish
- Black Wakin Goldfish
- Blue Glass Guppy
- Red Mosaic Guppy
- Neontetra
- Black Neontetra
- Glowlight Neontetra
- Green Neontetra
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Product Highlights
If you want brilliant colors, rich backgrounds, and an arrayof fish that rivals the finest pet stores, then
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• State-of-the-art virtual aquarium for your PC
• 20 different species of fresh or saltwater fish
• Digital food--feed them and watch them eat
• Fish cam--closely follow your favorite fish friends
• Pop-up interface--customize your aquarium on the fly
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Weight:
| 0.4 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.69 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.27 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.57 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.49 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 6 reviews |
| | | System Requirements: | | | Platform:
| Windows NT / Windows 98 / Windows 2000 / Windows Me / Windows XP / Windows 95 | | Media:
| CD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
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Average Customer Review:
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7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 It's OKMay 12, 2005
By ut158
I got this because a friend of mine had the Microsoft Plus! with a fish screen saver on it that I thought was really cool. This is pretty neat, too, but I think the Plus! version looks more realistic. This one has more features and is more customizable, but when you get right down to it, the Microsoft one looks more real and that is the whole point of a screen saver like this, in my opinion. I don't mean to bash the product too much (I did give it 3 stars)--the fish themselves look great. It's just that their movements are not as believable and sometimes they swim through rocks and things (the z-buffering is not right). The optional sound effects are advertised as "soothing", but I found them annoying. All in all, a good product, but I disagree with the claim, "So life-like, you will swear the fish are real!"
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Fuming in FloridaAug 16, 2005
By Jan Mahony
I hate this software! I'm upset that I wasted my money! I can't believe this product is on the market. It is so lousy... the scenery in the tanks is really, really ugly and very fake looking... what's up w/the moss covered bowling balls ? The fish keep freezing for 4 seconds or so. When I try to access the settings, feeding, etc, it stalls and twice i've had to reboot.. i don't have anything else that causes this. Don't waste your money like i did .. fif
10 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 If Your Really Want A Desktop Aquarium Go For Marine Aquarium 2.0Sep 28, 2005
By Jojoleb
"jojoleb"
What can I say? I just had to see this one. It was made by the Allume guys--you know the inventors of StuffIt files. How could I go wrong... By buying it. That's how. On the positive side, you get a virtual aquarium, a lot of different kinds of fish, and a lot of different kinds of backgrounds. You even get to feed the little buggers with virtual fish food and can 'tap on the glass' to 'interact with them.'
When I was looking for one of these screensavers, I really wanted a site that would show me a good comparison between these screensavers. But there was none.
The major problem with Aquazone is REALISM. The movements of the fish are at times jerky but they are three dimensional. They are realistic, but still seem cartoonish. When they grab for the 'fish food' they really look fake... But this one really fails in the background department. The backgrounds are very poorly done and not at all realistic and are only sparingly three dimensional. What's worse, the fish also make 'errors' in the dimensionality of the tank and seem to swim over things that they should swim around. The Windows XP Plus fish screensaver is more realistic than this one...
All you need to know about virtual aquariums are four words--SERENESCREEN MARINE AQUARIUM 2.0. Those fish at times seem like they are alive. Their movement is natural. Their eyes move before they turn! The aquarium is the most realistic one that I have seen and the fish are beautiful. There are no options for human/virtual fish interaction, but that doesn't matter, but maybe they'll add that later. Besides, it's no fun interacting with fake-looking, poorly-swimming, cartoonish fish. Unlike the Allume/Aquazone people, the Serenescreen folks allow you to download a demo--so if you don't believe me you can see for yourself before you buy. And you will. I did. I just assumed that if they could do it the braintrust at Allume could do just as well or better. But it was not to be.
Aquazone's scope is just too small--so I'm gonna throw it back. But Serenescreen, it's a keeper!
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Total Ripoff!Aug 15, 2005
By Vermont Liz
I purchased 2 aquarium programs prior to the Aquazone purchase, so I know what "realistic" looks like, and I assure you, this program is anything but! The plants are stationary, and don't sway with the motion of the water; the bubbles look like drawn circles, as opposed to my other programs, where the bubbles look like a real aerator; the fish in this program swim, then freeze for a second, with no motion at all - then swim haltingly again; the backgrounds are anything but convincing, and I recommend looking at other programs before wasting your money on this one.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Nice Try But Get Marine Aquarium 2.0Jan 23, 2006
By Board Head
This could be a nice little product except the graphics are not very good. The fish movements do not look very natural and they look a little like cartoon characters so you will probably be disappointed. Check out Marine Aquarium 2.0 instead.
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