Customer Reviews:
 It's a really good buy November 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this for my 2 and 4 year old sons. They love it. They have knocked it off of their dresser a few times but the fish keep on circling and we've had ours running daily for a year now. I find it hard to believe that it retails at $29.99. I bought mine at CVS for $9.99.
at CVS for $10 January 26, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I'm not a kid, but this did appeal, and it was inexpensive at $9.99.
For what it is, it's well made and it is bright and cheering,
and not really realistic, of course. However, the Living Aquarium
is a resting point for tired eyes to wander into after looking for too long
at the close-up computer screen.
I've set the aquarium up in my room's background--ten feet in the distance behind my monitor.
I find this eases eyestrain brought on by hours at the computer.
The aquarium sort of reminds one to look at it at intervals.
Construction: Good, simple, not high tech: a crystal clear, wavy-lenticular polycarbonate
case contains a five watt circular fluorescent bulb,
revealed by removing two screws from the top.
Inside are two two rollers, the two strips of acetate film
and a dead-silent gearmotor to drive one of the roller--
the other roller being an idler.
This is all on an old principle. Given its silence and its brightness,
it's all that could asked for.
From a distance, in a dimmed room it is particularly striking.
I find the Living Aquarium an excellent value in a novelty with a purpose,
at the price I paid for it at the local CVS pharmacy in late January 2008.
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