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Like others, finding nemo kick started the hobby for myself as well. However, my girlfriends little nephew is the one obsessed with nemo. The girlfriend and I really enjoy this hobby together and we are quite thankful to have someone to appreciate all of our hard work. He loves looking at the tanks we have now and he loves looking at pictures here on RC. He won't be taking a nemo home like in the movie though, our nemo's will be under safe keeping for sure.
I never thought of how bad the movie affected the poor clownfish.
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That aside, I see so many people at the LFS with no clue in their mind. Thank goodness that my LFS doesn't try to just get you buy things, they are honestly good guys (unless they've been drinking, then they start to get a little bit crazy ). I can't imagine how many clownfish have been put through the worst of conditions.
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I think he just meant under 10 year-olds. You could consider me a "kid" also, though I think I have done enough research to own a clown .
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LFS as "good guys"
I certainly hope that most LFS are good guys not pushing folks to buy stuff, but I have seen my share of scarey purchases. Most folks clearly don't understand what they are getting into...
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I'm 20 and I do alright. As a matter of fact I do better with this hobby than my parents. I think some blame should be put on adults. Not only parents. Now I'm going to anger 90% of you because what I'm about to say is very true and you'll demonstrate that when you get in an uproar about it. Adults get stubborn and pig headed quickly. Not all of them but at my lfs I've heard one to many grown people saying yeah but......... What ever. Yeah but my dentist has 20 tangs in a 90 gallon I can too. Yeah but coral is a plant so all I need are the plant lights and some plant food. Well the last one is a bit of a bluff but you know what I mean. Kids are taught 90% of what they know young. The reason is because as they get older all to often they refuse to except new information as true. Well when I was in school we were told the world was flat (exaturation) so thats that. Well surpise the world has moved on. We found out we were young and took it at that. Ok now I'll get off my soap box and listen to what others have to say.
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Yup. And public displays in restaurants, dentist's office, etc. Don't really follow stocking rules, people see this and think "I can have that..." and than the LFS tells them different, and they get a little confused and very upset.
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We have an acquaintance who's son is demanding a nemo (ie. Ocellaris) tank. I introduced him to our local reef club, invited him along to a meeting, and offered to give him some 'starter sand' when he's ready to get going and set up his 29.
I view each 'Nemo' opportunity as a chance to educate. Sure, there's stupid people out there, but the movie has provided those of us in the hobby an excellent opportunity to teach. FWIW, I had a FO tank waaay back in 1994 and didn't get back into the hobby until the Nemo craze hit.
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Yeah I went into a petco the other day to pick up some snails, and this one guy and what appeared to be his 3 or 4 year old kid were buying fish, he bought a yellow tang 2 clowns and then started asking questions about a gigantea anemone and the guy basically told him he would need some good lighting and a skimmer and explained how to feed it. He responded that it sounded like to much work. In my mind I was thinking know way has this guy done any research on saltwater otherwise he would have known that, so I asked him what he was going to put these fish in and he replied back in a snotty way a 55 gal. It's crazy, then I just walked away but it appeared he was buying even more fish. I was like no way thats crazy, who buys fish like this all at once. I was trying to see if he was buying the salt too at the same time or if he even knew to put salt in the tank.
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I think people should have some sort of license to buy fish, kind of like a drivers license, to preserve these creatures at some exstent and i think people should have license to sell fish to people, I hate going into lfs's and there is some idiot who doesn't even own a tank or know more than your average reef beginner selling fish to the idiot people who don't take time to research.
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He has also made statements such as "The coral tank has flatworms this week and is being treated. We won't sell anything from that tank until the flatworms are gone" He is highly respected around these parts! And has a great tristate area draw of customers.
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this movie has ruined reefkeeping
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us reef keepers need noobs, so we have inferiors to look down upon. Also, they keep the lfs in buisness and freshly stocked with new corals!
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The TV is not a learning tool it is for entertainment......
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They left out the part were dad becomes the new mom and nemo becomes dads new boyfriend.
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nemo sucks. kids probably buy them and put them in there little fresh water fish bowl at home. i cant believe the tank in the dentists office. over stocked and not compatible.
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People are split on this. Thing is, a LARGE PORTION of the "Nemo-Noobies" want to duplicate the dentist's tank. Complete with Moorish Idol, Puffer, plastic plants, and don't forgot Mt. Wannahockaloogie.
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I just took my grandchildren one of those saltwater aquarium lamps now they have a saltwater tank complete with nemo and dory. It never needs water changes or additions no food no supplements just turn on the light and the fish start swimming. I would never have imagined how much they would enjoy it. Their lfs is the local wal-mart nothing else available within an hours drive so they only have a freshwater 55 gallon.
But they stay glued to the front of my tank when they get to visit so when I found the lamp I took it to them. My 5 year old grandson who has cp and can't walk will stand in front of the lamp and watch nemo for hours. Point is that kids are satisfied as long as nemo moves they really don't care if it is real or animated.
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