Fish swimming through objects
 

First off, let me say that I LOVE this application. It is so restful. As a retired software engineer (30 years, in several languages) I also appreciate how much work went into it, and how utterly solid and elegant it is! Rare, these days.

One minor thing (minor for me, at least!): about once every couple of minutes, I believe I'm seeing a fish swim through something. Mostly the sponge, but I've also seen one swim through the top part of the crystal, and also a coral. The offenders have been different species.
I managed to catch one in the act:

http://debearly.home.mindspring.com/temp/fishbug.jpg

My system information:
ASUS K70IC-A1 (laptop)
Intel Core2 Duo P8700 2.53GHz, 4.00 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 220M, 1.00 GB
Windows 7 Professional 32-bit
Hardware drivers all current
MA3 version T928.3.0.1953

Let me know if you need any further information.

Thank you for this wonderful app!

Marine Aquarium 2 did not have any coral pass throughs. Marine Aquarium 3 has a more intricate coral, and allows more fish (up to 30). These two combined lead to the possibility of pass throughs.

It's a known issue (especially with the Elkhorn coral you've pictured) and something Jim does want to fix in the future. For now I might suggest turning down the number of fish.

Now that he's mentioned it, I see that happen, too.

Simply having less fish fixes it?

Cool - I've give that a try.

Too many fish is a bit distracting, anyway.

Even setting the fish to 1, there's still a chance you'll see passthrus on that Elkhorn coral at the top. That's the weakest point in the space-time continuum.

As long as the fish doesn't get trapped while passing through. That would be bad.

Oh and welcome to the forum. debearly ;)

Poor fish...LOL!!

There were 16 fish in that particular group, but no biggie. I figured it probably was a known issue, just wanted to be sure.

I've watched fish bump that coral and look startled. Fascinating how fish-like their behaviors are. An incredible engineering feat!

Thank you!

And yet, the intention is to improve the fish behaviour, can you believe it?! :D

Once that's been implemented, debearly, the pass-throughs should be remedied as a consequence.

In MA3 for MS Windows, if I deselect 'Show Crystal' in 'Program Settings', then re-enable the crystal in 'Clock & Logo', then go back to the screensaver without restarting the program, the likelihood of fish passing through the crystal --right through the center of the clock, as if it wasn't there at all-- seems greatly increased. Or is it just my imagination?

You're right, it's a genuine bug. I'll fix it on the next build.

A temp workaround is to just exit and re-start the program after turning the crystal back on.

The Lion Fish also has a hole in his chin that you can see thru

That is the hole left by the hook when Jim caught it. :D

I assumed the fish had had a recent tracheotomy. ;)

I'll fix it on the next update.

My lions all have solid jaws, must to a to low res condition on mine.

The "hole" is on the bottom side of the lion fish mouth, hard to see unless you cheat a bit. The fish has to be facing (or going away) and tilted so you can see the underside. In the picture you can see the green of the coral through this hole. Actually under the right lion fish position there is a hole around the entire dorsal fin as well. Neither worth fixing in my opinion.