Reefscapes: Nature's Aquarium

Wow! Absolutely love it. Beautiful with soothing music and my cat loves it too. Thumbs way up! 👍🏻👍🏻

This is a beautiful video when you need some calm-time. Gorgeous, vibrant colors. I use without sound.

This is just so pretty. I really like the video of coral reefs in all their glory. The music is soft and soothing.

Pro: I liked the colors, clarity, and that it was filmed in the wild, not a glass enclosed aquarium. There is a choice of music and/or natural bubble sounds, which I didn't find natural at all. It just made me want to visit the bathroom again when I played the bubbles. I prefer the sound off, but the music was nice. I especially liked the short bonus film that allows you to see the description of the fish and corals they film in the wild. I saw so many creatures that live in the ocean that I'll never experience in actual life situations! Definitely glad to have it in my collection.Con: A lot of the fish were too far away to fill up the screen, but some of the scenes had a lot more variety of fish, turtles, corals and more interesting animals like flat worms and weird looking things that mimic flowers.

Nice video of aquatic life in a variety of different backgrounds. Visually stimulating and relaxing.

I found the "Reefscapes Nature's Aquarium" DVD, to be boring boring, boring!.Quality, colors and audio were very good with the exception of occasional pixelation. That; however, usually went away after a few seconds. The problem with the main portion of the DVD is that the scenes appeared to have been selected on the basis of sheer number of small fish. While the colors were vivid [predominately orange] , the feeling that I had was not that of snorkeling on a coral reef; but rather that of looking at an over crowded fish tank in the pet section of a discount store. Even on our 50" HDTV the fish were small and the sheer quantity of the little orange fellows just overwhelmed. I will probably not watch the main video again.The 20 minute Bonus Feature, "Reefscapes: A Closer Look" was excellent! If the hour long portion of the DVD had been done like the bonus section I would probably have rated it five stars. Both parts have great colors; remarkable visibility; OK audio; and [hallelujah] no commentary.The Bonus part consists of close up views of common reef fish in their natural environment. The scenes reminded me of a number of snorkel trips in places like the Great Barrier Reef; Hawaii; Bonaire; Tahiti, the Caribbean, etc. I would have liked to have seen shots of some of the other common reef dwellers -- like moray eels, octopi; lobsters, barracuda, tarpon, squid, sea cucumbers, and maybe even a sea-horse [memories of Bonaire] -- to name a few; and for the camera to have followed the individual fish for a longer period of time.Overall I was very disappointed in the Reefscapes DVD. I had planned to give them as Christmas presents to each of our four kids but I am now back to square one.

Reefscapes: Nature's Aquarium (Second Edition) is definitely the best of the five different aquarium DVD's that I bought. Reefscapes has a one hour main feature (Nature's Aquarium) and a 20 minute bonus feature (A Closer Look). The bonus feature often shows one or two fish at a time in their natural environment with the name of the fish displayed. The bonus feature also shows the names of the different corals. The DVD gives you the option of showing or hiding the names of the fish and corals in the bonus feature. The main feature does not show the names of the fish or corals. Both the main feature and the bonus feature give you the option of playing relaxing music or natural sounds from the reef (it sounds like aquarium bubbles). The relaxing music and the natural sounds play non-stop for the entire 60 minutes of the main feature and for the entire bonus feature. The last 35 seconds of the main feature displays the names of the production crew against a black background while the relaxing music or natural sounds continue to play. The bonus feature has a 30 second similar ending. Both the main feature and the bonus feature restarts automatically. Of the five aquarium DVD's, Reefscapes and one other DVD is tied for first place for the loudest "aquarium bubbles". I have noisy neighbors that make a lot of noise in the hallway outside of my room. The loud "aquarium bubbles" drown out their noise (unlike the three other DVD's). In the main feature, the scene changes about every 60 seconds, and every scene is different. Every underwater ocean scene in the main feature has lots of corals and fish. The scenes in the bonus feature changes about every 15 seconds, and every scene is different.

Lovely and I will more than likely be ordering another for the bedroom!