As many have said, this crib addition is a MUST, my two kids have loved it, however it EATS C batteries!!! I am not sure why the ability to use a wall adapter was not included in this design.. Even though it wasn't, I have found a quick and easy hack to make sure you stop wasting tons of batteries....1. Remove all the batteries.2. Order a DC Power Supply.  IDS AC DC 6V 3A Supply Adapter 18W Adaptor 3. Cut the wire the desired length and strip down to bare wire4. Plug in power supply and where the batteries go on either far left and far right side gently touch one wire to one side and other wire to other side.5. When it makes a sound/turns on you know you have the right polarity6. Then using a small flat head screw driver pry the back side of the connector and shove the wire inside there. Do it for both sides.7. Screw the battery cover back on to ensure that the wires connections were not lost.8. Make sure the power supply is plugged in and then you will no longer have to worry about batteries!!(Not Liable for any harm/damage done by following these directions ;) Read more

The media could not be loaded.  How I rate: 1 star-don't like at all, 2 stars-it's ok (meh), 3 stars-impressed (I like it), 4 stars-pretty darn good (I love this), 5 stars-wow (indispensable in my life)Of all the baby toys my daughter has, this is what she loves the most! She's had this for 2 months now since she was four months old. This is the ONLY toy she immediately took to and still loves watching the turtle and his friends bob and slide around the tank. This tank gives baby all the joys of an aquarium with it's realistic water effects and moving sea creatures, less the maintenance and risk of e.coli/ bacterial infections.Attached are: video showing her trying to see the aquarium just after unpacking and photo of her climbing over me to see the aquarium. Read more

We got this for our kid when he was about two or three months old and have used it fairly steadily since (he's just over seven months now). In general terms, it does a pretty good job of soothing him and, after countless kicks of varying magnitude, it seems to be holding up well. It's hardly a perfect product, however, and some things would likely have me reconsidering whether I'd buy it again.Good stuff:* Music is tolerable, though quickly redundant (it didn't take my wife or me long to be able to hum along with the playlist of classical snippets).* The 'underwater' lighting effect is pretty cool.* Wind-down of light and sounds is gentle and well done.* Star button is easy for baby to smack to turn on the fun.* Crib light function is helpful.OK stuff:* The remote has its own agenda and doesn't always work. When it does, it's a good thing to have. When it doesn't, it's frustrating. Partly due to what seems to be a sort of 'standby' mode (more on that below).* Volume difference between the high and low settings on music seems more pronounced than on ocean noise.* Speaking of which, music on loud can be pretty loud. Good if you're trying to get a screaming baby's attention, but not so great for other applications.* The sea creatures' movements are really limited, like watching a few seconds' footage of lumbering animals on an endless loop. I find it boring, but I've had nearly forty years worth of life experience to compare it to, so maybe I'm a harsher critic than my often-engrossed kid is. Once he's seen "The Wire" and "Arrested Development," I'm sure this will hold less interest for him.Weird stuff:* If you're in either of the lights, action & sound modes, hitting the star gets things going. If you're in either of the sound-only modes and it's been a while since the thing was on, there seems to be some kind of standby mode & hitting the star does nothing. If you're just trying to give your baby some soothing sounds, you have to flip back to a light and action mode to jump start the unit, then quickly flip back to just noise. Apart from the possible burst of light you didn't need, the clicking sounds may prove disturbing to some babies.* Remote has similar issues: If the aquarium wasn't recently on, the remote isn't going to start it back up, meaning you have to go hit the star on the unit. So much for being covert. It really only makes the remote useful for extended, repeated plays.Bad and annoying stuff:* As many others have mentioned, battery life kind of sucks. Buy your Cs in bulk and know where to dispose of them properly. Better yet, get at least eight rechargeables and always have a set ready, because...* The 'low battery' light is a joke. It's a 'no battery' light. Imagine your car's 'fuel warning' light only coming on after you've used up every ounce of gas in your tank. That's this thing. No warning, just an instantly dead machine and a handy red light reminding you it's dead. Rest assured, cruel laws of thermodynamics beyond human comprehension will ensure that this only happens at 4 a.m., when your child is most agitated and only a Baby Einstein Sea Dreams Soother will calm them.* Oh, did I mention changing the batteries means pulling it off the crib, taking off the mount, then using a screwdriver to undo the back? Keep a Phillips head and spare batteries nearby. By the second or third month of having this, you should be able to attack this thing like a NASCAR pit crew to get it back up and running in under two minutes. Still, your newly-acquired skills will not excuse a zero-warning shutdown in the middle of the night.* Lastly, depending on the height of the mattress in your crib or the angle of the mount, it's entirely possible to have pretty bright LEDs beaming right into the kid's eyes as you're trying to get them to sleep. I'm no baby scientist, but that seems counterproductive, unless the idea is to make them squint into submission. Whatever the case, it seems like a 1/1000th of cent plastic flange could've solved that.I guess the fact I wrote so much about this says either that I do like it or that I want to like it more than I do (or that I need to better address my self-editing). The stuff it does well pleases me greatly, whereas the complaints aren't quite enough to make me send the thing to an early retirement.Overall assessment then seems to be: It's better than decent, but know what you're getting into. Read more

This is our second one, the first one lasted for 3 years of daily use. When the motor finally died, we asked our 3 year old if they would like a new one or a different toy they have been bugging us about. Guess what they chose. We will be purchasing another one for our youngest since they will not inherit this one. The new ones are slightly different from the older ones. The music is better and the LEDs seem better. I would call all the changes I have seen an improvement. One thing to note, there is a little rubber o-ring on the inside that connects the motor to the drive shaft for the animals that move. If you hear the motor running and the animals don't move, that is most likely the issue. I replaced 3 or 4 of the little o-rings over the last 4 years for a fraction of the price. Read more

We use this in the car. We attached it to the head rest and our baby loves it. She's 8 months now and enjoys turning it on and off with her foot! The remote makes it a game between her and I. Makes errand runs and traveling to see family a whole lot better with her distracted. Read more

Had something similar to this with my first child, now 12. He loved it and used to love playing quietly with it in the morning. Unfortunately, this Baby Einstein version has left me quite disappointed. The music is far too loud and plinky-plonky to be used at bedtimes, even on the quietest setting. Plus the crib check light is far too bright. I accidentally turned it on while checking on my little one one night and it dazzled us both, waking him up in the process. Going to tape up the speaker holes in an attempt to make it quieter and more useable. Manufacturer needs to go back to the drawing board with this, I’m sad to say, especially for the high price. Read more

It's very good as my son has downsindrome and he like light up stuff and it's great but you got to switch it off after he's asleep as he plays with it about 4am in the morning lol but it comes with a remote control so we can control it from eney were in the room were it is. He loves it I like to say thank you. Read more

like so many others it started making loud grinding noises. Also the music i found was quite loud so i put tape of the speaker holes and that helped. the baby loved looking at the sea animals and the sound of the ocean is wonderful, but sadly the motor noise ruins it so you cant have the motion on, only the sounds so that defeats the purpose. FP should fix this motor noise problem Read more

Not really happy with this product, it’s really bulky on the side of the cot, it’s very loud even on the lowest setting and it’s expensive to going as it uses 4, yes 4!! C size batteries that last about 2 weeks!!! Absolutely ridiculousIt looks nice when it’s working though with the lights creating a under water scene, but I certainly wish I hadn’t bought it and I’m sorry but I really can’t recommend, specially when it comes to the battery draining! Read more

The first night we got this our baby went from waking every hour to sleeping 6 on the trot. He loves the sea noise which helps him not wake in the night and is totally in love with the creatures featured in it. He spends hours trying to speak to them; cooing and gurgling away.The only downsides is it doesn't have a continuous setting, so we can't leave it on throughout the night without having to wake to press the remote to get it going again. Also the motor is a little loud.Honestly this has saved us from going mad from not sleeping. Read more