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Tropical Aquarium app for iPhone and iPad


4.3 ( 6173 ratings )
Entertainment
Developer: bitbros Inc.
0.99 USD
Current version: 1.6, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 12 Jan 2010
App size: 12.13 Mb

Submerge your iPhone in a beautiful and exotic underwater world.

Tropical Aquarium is a freshwater aquarium that’s so realistic that it’s hard to believe you aren’t watching real fish swimming lazily through crystal clear water. With a choice of three different aquariums, various fish and fish-tank accessories, users get a very life-like experience, including feeding and caring for their virtual fish.
The portrait display function allows users to view their fish tank either vertically or horizontally. Paired with the ability to play music from the iTunes music library, the portrait setting enables users to watch beautiful tropical fish while listening to music on an iPhone docking station.

You will be able to upgrade Tropical Aquarium to Premium version via In App Purchase.
The Premium version adds the ability to customize the aquariums and supports five more species of fish.

Features:
- 32 species of 3D fish (43 in Premium version)
- Feed your fish and knock on the front "glass" to annoy them
- View your aquarium in soothing shades of midnight blue
- Customize your aquariums (Premium version)
- Move and zoom using common touchscreen gestures
- Play music from your collection
- Portrait display option - turn your iPhone docking station into a virtual aquarium! and let the dynamic camera follow a specific fish or focus on points of interest.

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Pros and cons of Tropical Aquarium app for iPhone and iPad

Tropical Aquarium app good for

Great displays, realistic fish movement, the ability to tap on the glass for interaction and an actually need to shake to feed so the fish can grow in size. However, unlike the reef tank by raiX, you have to pay an additional 99 cents to go premium for 5 more regular fishes and the ability to modify the display.
Very realistic, fish are great indeed but only if the upgrade is purchased. It is definitely worth the additional 0.99 for the premium. Wish there were more backgrounds and elements variety available maybe additional tanks as well. Thanks. Keep up the good job. Looking forward to future updates!
This is like having a miniature aquarium on my desk. Most enjoyabe and relaxing app out there. It has its limitations as far as number of fish, but the selection, species, and size are quite nice. Like others, I dont like the "shake-hard-to-feed" method; woud prefer the TAP method. Nice to play classical relaxing music while watching my beautiful "pets" swim back and forth in their "world.". Nice job!
Ouch! I love that this aquarium app is so realistic looking and beautiful, BUT it hurts my wrists to feed the fish!!! Why did you make it so that you have to shake the device so HARD? I have arthritis in my wrists so this takes away from the enjoyment of caring for my fish. PLEASE do something about this feature! Tapping is so much easier on my hands, as in Tapfish. Thank you.
This has very realistic fish and fish movements. The plants, while moving as in water currents, dont look quite as real but more like plastic plants. Who can always have real plants in an aquarium anyway? I nearly always have a mix of real and artificial so this isnt a problem for me. A couple of things Id like to see would be more plants and especially the ability to place them where I want rather than simply having to change whats at a particular location. Being restricted to only predefined location doesnt allow for much individuality. Id also like to see a bit more realism in fish size relative to each other. Fir instance, the pacu is only about twice the size of a black tetra here when in reality, a pace can be up to 30" while a black tetra is maybe 3". Id like the big fish to "grow" a little bigger. As fas as I can tell, the actual size doesnt change, only the stats show an increase in size. Overall, this is at least a 4.5 rating app.
I love the current fish, however I woul love to see more species and also female versions of the fish, schooling behavior would be awesome!! Maybe more realistic plants and the ability to move them where you want. So very real!!

Some bad moments

Youve rate the prise up to $1.99 and now you want me to pay more money to unlock the spieces and setups. Nice try
Extremly boring. all it is you choose a fish and feed it. You can also turn on and off the light
I cant believe it! 99 cents for a boring game. Thats not cool
You only get fish larger than a guppy if you pay for an upgrade!
What you get is the lite, teaser version, which is typically free. The difference is that I paid for this. If you want a functioning product, you need to upgrade to the premium version. R-I-P O-F-F!!! The version I purchased features a very limited number of tiny fish - it is no good at all like this, in spite of great potential.
Those of you who are old enough know the carnival trick of paying your basic entry fee, getting inside and then finding that if youd like to see the whatever in a bottle w/o the curtain in front of it, you have to pay the special fee. This is that scam. I bought the app and after selecting one teeny, tiny fish, was locked out of any future selection unless I upgraded. Ive experienced the upgrade angle before, but NEVER have I been offered so little in the basic app. There have to be more honest apps along this line.