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Pros: Nice design, clever idea of computer managed fish tank - great gadget for home or office. Air pump works great.
Cons: My unit came with light not working. Also internal thermometer shows wrong water temperature ( 35-39 C ), so water temperature management is not working too. Included software is quite poorly done, changing its interface from chinese to english is not that obvious. Also package lacked USB cable, mentioned in manual.
Other Thoughts: This aquarium is pretty small, capacity is less than 1 litre. So you can keep just one small fish in it. I've chosen black tetra, since it's pretty small, nice looking and easy for beginners to raise. Fish tank comes with some beads to use as a decoration, but i recommend to buy some additional small artificial water plants to put inside. Aquarium comes with additional power supply (with chinese flat plug), small plastic net, and thin manual in Chinese.Included CD-ROM contains driver for aqarium (Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm port) and controlling software, which installs with chinese language by default.To change language of controlling software interface you must open fish.ini file (usually it is in "c:\usbfish\sys" folder), find [language] section and remove semicolon in the begining of line ";name=english" . Put semicolon in the begining of line "name=chinese". Thats all, when you load software next time its interface will be in english.
Bottomline: Great idea, poor implementation. Quite overpriced for such micro size, but if you're lucky to get unit with working temperature sensor and light, you'll be satisfied enough.
Pros: -Has decorative beads for it as well-Light is cool, changes colour-Air pump does it's job (not sure bout the temp tho)-Comes with a AC adapter for USB type items. This is good as well cas' you can use it for other things such as charging ipods.
Cons: -one of the chains broke when i took it off (but there are 2 spares anyhow)-a Little small for the price, if it was only abit bigger it would be perfect.
Other Thoughts: Not for big fish obviously, im using it for sea monkeys but they dont seem to be hatching >.<....i suck.
Bottomline: Pretty cool little fish tank. Good for 1-3 small fish. Probably good tank for the smaller fish to grow up in, and once they are big enough, but them in a bigger tank with the bigger fish. Think of it at a pre-primary school for fish or something, lol.
Pros: I got the gold colored one and where actually surprised over the build quality! The air pump is doing its job! The heater is also doing its job and can keep the aquarium up to 30 Celsius! If you don't want your computer to stand on all the time it comes with a wall power supply (USB type)
Cons: The software is only in Chinese and it's kinda useless. Your better off with just using the wall charger! And its kinda small for most fishes!
Other Thoughts: lot of people says this is to small for using on real fishes but i don agree, a lot of small fishes can actually live in these small aquariums as long as you got good water quality. Check around on the internet and see if you get a hold on some information on what types of fishes to use!
Bottomline: Okey aquarium for office use! easy to feed the fishes and easy to keep clean! And the price is relay low!
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