Marine Aquarium: Take Your Mac Under the Sea!

If you have ever owned a fish tank, you know what kind of hassle they can cause. Always having to clean them, fish dying, fish dying because they are getting eaten by other fish etc. Serene Screens solves this problem by bringing the fish tank to the virtual world in the form of Marine Aquariums.

Marine Aquariums is meant to be a Screen Saver, but you can also use it as a desktop app if you wish. You customize your aquarium in the preferences of the desktop app, and the changes you make will then be reflected in the Screen Saver.

The first pane in the preferences is Settings. This pane lets you customize the settings that will affect performance and quality of your aquarium, such as frames per second, resolution, and extras like bubbles and lights.

The next pane is where you get to select your fish. To add a fish to your tank, just select its picture, and click the double arrows (<<). To remove a fish, click its picture on the left, and then click the “x.” There are 28 fish you can choose from in total, and you can also have your tank filled randomly. I filled my tank with fish that looked like the were from “Finding Nemo.”

The next four panes don’t have a lot to them. There is a pane to choose clock settings, a keyboard shortcut pane (Help), an ‘About’ pane, and a ‘Register’ pane.

The fish actually do look somewhat realistic, not just 2D fish floating past the screen. If you want to get a fish tank of your own, you can pick up a license of Marine Aquarium for $14.95 from Serene Screens.