Fayimora Aquarium

Fish are common pets that can be beautiful to look at, and provide a source of relaxation and entertainment. Fayimora Aquarium is a program that allows users to create a virtual aquarium on their desktop, that allows users to watch digital fish swim around in a customizable tank, with settings to control the fish.

There is no help document available for Fayimora Aquarium which is a problem, not because it is difficult to set up in any way, but rather because there aspects to the program that could be explained. For instance, there is an option to display the health status of a fish, yet no explanation for why that is necessary. It comes across as if users should feed them or care for them in some way, yet such a feature is curiously absent.

If fish can lose health, or if users can bolster their health is a mystery that is not explained by the application at all. Fayimora Aquarium makes no effort to show off its features or advantages, instead it understates everything and leaves users in the dark. The impression left by the application is one of an unfinished program that contains half done features and still needs to be updated and improved.

One of the upsides of Fayimora Aquarium is the ability to load custom images as the background, making it possible to turn the aquarium into an image of anything. However, the aquarium automatically resizes to the shape of the image and is impossible to resize, so if users want a larger aquarium they need to resize the picture before loading it.

The number of fish and the speed the fish move can be changed massively, from a single fish to a whole shoal of 50 fish. The speed can also be drastically changed, causing them to zoom about at a speed that makes real fish look lazy. Despite those options, more could have been added, such as different fish types, control of what fish are added, sea flora and so on.

Fayimora Aquarium is an amusing idea and one users might embrace if it had been executed properly, it seems the idea was to make an aquarium with fish that need to be fed and cared for, like a desktop tamagotchi. Unfortunately, what users have ended up is a basic fish animation that seems sloppy and haphazard, making Fayimora Aquarium a bitter disappointment.