Aquarium for Your Home: Saltwater Reef an Aquarium for Your Television

I have to admit my presumptions were so very low before I watched this film. C'mon. It's a bunch of fish in a man-made environment meant to simulate the ocean. If you've seen an aquarium at all, ever, this is what it's like. Big deal.Peel away the layers, and suddenly you are involved in a complicated plot with various subplots. You understand it, but it doesn't make sense. At all. The pain. The beauty. Simple, yet such complex life forms. The need for constant motion. The boredom, the repetition of everyday life - how precious it all is, when it changes, and not always for the better. New characters are constantly introduced, and disappear almost as quickly, only to dart in again when you least expect it (there are no small parts). And the lack of dialogue is brilliant, leaving the viewer to draw the obvious conclusion.Sometimes the colors are striking, and sometimes they're jarring. We cannot see the water, but we know it's there. There's a lot to see, actually, but sometimes I wondered if I was really seeing everything. (I've seen better CGI, but remember this is an indie film, with a small budget, and they did what they could with what they could afford.) Is this how the ocean looks, or are we meant to think that this is how the ocean really looks? Would such fishes coexist in this same fashion somewhere in the wild, or only in this limited sphere, four finite glass walls with an artificial glow?The clown fish cannot get away from what it is, even when it is approached by other fish. It cannot get around its own prejudices regarding interspecies dating, and its contrived, almost constant references to a certain Pixar movie. The starfish doesn't move. Ever. Why? Why can't the starfish move? Is it paralysis, or ennui? Some of the undersea plants move very slowly, almost sensually. Some of the undersea plants wave madly, as if in a constant gale - why would the plant need to create so much drama for itself? The end was startling; it asked more questions than it answered. I found myself thinking of Werner Herzog's early films again and again. Then, much to my own distress, I wanted sushi.I took one star off because I didn't need to be lectured, yet again, about global warming and diminishing species, not to mention The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Everything we do is harmful to the environment, the earth is going to hell, we're all doomed, blah blah blah. Blah.There are sharks. And there are goldfish. And then there's everything in between. We are all fish. The fish are us. Currently available for free with Amazon Prime, and it's worth twice, three times that amount.

after a long day of work i just wanted to relax with a good chick flick, or maybe a horror film, or maybe both. Aquarium for your Home was neither! awful!! the plot line was completely static and the dialogue was really stilted, basically whenever there was an argument they just blew bubbles at each other. the passion just wasn't there but what can you expect when EVERYBODY ON THE FREAKING SCREEN IS A FISH. what kind of "experimental" film is this?? they should have tried throwing hillary duff in there i think she would have been great as the arch-nemesis instead of that stupid purple fish.to be fair the costumes and make up were pretty great.but really guys... FISH. REALLY. come on, you can do better than that. you could have put in a least one freaking car chase, is that too much to ask. what a waste of my time. you set yourself up for failure by HIRING FISH TO BE YOUR ACTORS, i don't know how any of you thought this would be a good idea. it was so hard for me to follow what was going on i kept getting lost. but i was following it enough to know that also, the plot twist at the end was really uncalled for. the fish couldn't convey the right amount of emotional tact that was needed for such a drama filled scene. this movie was NOT a no. 1 hit with me, it would be MUCH farther down the last than a 5, but they only gave me five stars to work with here. i wish they'd give me 58 stars, cuz id use them all. Aquarium for your Home, YOU ARE A FLOP.

This was rather enjoyable and a heck of a lot cheaper than building your own tank. I would have given it 5 stars if the tank had a wider variety of fish. We ran this on the TV while listening to the radio and turned the bubble sounds off. I noticed that you could go up to the TV and see quite a bit more going on in the tank up close and personal. If you want a salt tank in your home but can't afford the cost or the grief, this may be a good substitute.

I put this on and relaxed. You can even hear the bubbles in the aquarium. Very nice assortment of fish swimming by. The scenes change every few minutes. Also, there are 3 different videos to choose from.

It appears to me that this is actual living animals in captivity. Although it might seem as if the environment is a simulation of reality, the fact is that there is far too much water movement and these poor animals will soon die for lack of rest as none of them, with the exception of the starfish, have any place to get out of the current to sleep or rest. This film only shows me how stupid most people are when it comes to making a quick buck at the cost of the less fortunate. Makes me feel sorry for the precious little lifeforms forced to inhabit this extremely turbulent environment.I truly hope the producer will either learn why his fish are dying constantly or quit killing innocent lifeforms while trying to make money at the cost of their God given lives.George Ford: Turn down the water flow through the filter! They need a place to rest and sleep or they will die. Why? For a quick buck!? You're a monster, George Ford!

It's a nice way to make your TV go away with a variety of fish swimming playfully. The sound of bubbles make it feel more real or mute the sound and turn on some tunes as you watch fish play. I would give it 5 stars if there would be a tab to let it loop so it wouldn't have to restart every hour.

I watch this gorgeous saltwater aquarium over and over, again and again! It is calming, even mesmerizing. And it makes me laugh! My TV is set for captioning as I am hearing-impaired, so I can't help but smile when I see "[bubble]" or "[bloop]" appear, whether it's in background mode as I walk past with laundry or primary viewing as I sit and chill in front of the screen. And it is the biggest, cleanest, and easiest aquarium I've ever had to care for in my life! 😃