Life before Nemo
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mrdc
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That is what sold me too. Since I have been out of the hobby for awhile and just recently got back in it, it seems that Hippo prices have gone up in my area. One store is selling them for $100 and calling them medium size. I bought a medium one for $50 several years ago. Either I got a good deal or they are charging more.
srfisher17
Active Member
All this movie did was send thousands of little kids to the lfs and Mommy taking Nemo home in a goldfish bowl to a certain death and subsequent flushing. I know a lfs owner who put a sign on the door listing the minimum start up costs for a SW tank; just to avoid the constant whining of the kids when Mommy learned what the deal was.
btldreef
Moderator
Nemo definitely changed the scene a little.
There are three LFS's within an hour of me that play "Finding Nemo" non-stop in their store. One of those stores also sells already set up 1.5G tanks with a baby "nemo" in it. Just sends them off to die.
More LFS's need to let people know that these fish are not goldfish or bettas. So sad.
On another forum, there was a person who came on with a 29G BioCube and listed her stock list as follows:
"Dory"
"Nemo"
"Jacque"
"Peach"
"Nemo's Home"(in reference to a condy anemone)
etc...
When asked if she knew the actually names of these fish or how to care for them/how big they would grow, she replied that Dory wasn't that much bigger than Nemo in the movie.
True story
There are three LFS's within an hour of me that play "Finding Nemo" non-stop in their store. One of those stores also sells already set up 1.5G tanks with a baby "nemo" in it. Just sends them off to die.
More LFS's need to let people know that these fish are not goldfish or bettas. So sad.
On another forum, there was a person who came on with a 29G BioCube and listed her stock list as follows:
"Dory"
"Nemo"
"Jacque"
"Peach"
"Nemo's Home"(in reference to a condy anemone)
etc...
When asked if she knew the actually names of these fish or how to care for them/how big they would grow, she replied that Dory wasn't that much bigger than Nemo in the movie.
mrdc
Active Member
A good friend of mine that works at a LFS gets erked everytime when someone asks how much for nemo or how much for dory. He wants them to be called by their real names. Anytime you go to a LFS store, you always hear .."hey look at Nemo".
Plus almost any fish store I go to has a huge stock of "Nemos". I have to admit that when I go to the store with my 4 year old, I have to speak the Finding Nemo language.
Plus almost any fish store I go to has a huge stock of "Nemos". I have to admit that when I go to the store with my 4 year old, I have to speak the Finding Nemo language.
btldreef
Moderator
Originally Posted by mrdc
http:///forum/post/3229330
I have to admit that when I go to the store with my 4 year old, I have to speak the Finding Nemo language.
I know what you mean. It doesn't bother me when the kids or the parents say "hey look at nemo" to the kids, it's when adults are saying it to other adults.
http:///forum/post/3229330
I have to admit that when I go to the store with my 4 year old, I have to speak the Finding Nemo language.
mrdc
Active Member
Originally Posted by BTLDreef
http:///forum/post/3229335
I know what you mean. It doesn't bother me when the kids or the parents say "hey look at nemo" to the kids, it's when adults are saying it to other adults.
The pet store to my 4 year old is called the Nemo storre. Though she wants rabbits, birds and everything else besides fish.
http:///forum/post/3229335
The pet store to my 4 year old is called the Nemo storre. Though she wants rabbits, birds and everything else besides fish.
srfisher17
Active Member
Originally Posted by BTLDreef
http:///forum/post/3229335
I know what you mean. It doesn't bother me when the kids or the parents say "hey look at nemo" to the kids, it's when adults are saying it to other adults.
I often get some culls from a clownfish breeder. I guess I'll gather the neighborhood kids and say "Hey kids, watch the Lionfishies eat the little Nemos".
http:///forum/post/3229335
I often get some culls from a clownfish breeder. I guess I'll gather the neighborhood kids and say "Hey kids, watch the Lionfishies eat the little Nemos".
rlablan
Active Member
What really gets me is not only do these people not know the real names of "dory" or "nemo" (the are usually posted) but then don't try to teach the kids the right info either. They also have their wires totally crossed.
I was at the dallas world aquarium a few weeks ago and there was a group of children with some adults next to a large aquarium filled with cinnamon clowns, yellow tailed damsels, nems, and reef chomis. All I could hear was "look at nemo and dory!"
Are they stupid? Those fish look nothing like nemo or dory. Especially the damsels.
If you're going to tell your child something, please make it the right info. These days, kids need all the help they can get.
I was at the dallas world aquarium a few weeks ago and there was a group of children with some adults next to a large aquarium filled with cinnamon clowns, yellow tailed damsels, nems, and reef chomis. All I could hear was "look at nemo and dory!"
Are they stupid? Those fish look nothing like nemo or dory. Especially the damsels.
If you're going to tell your child something, please make it the right info. These days, kids need all the help they can get.
mrdc
Active Member
I teach my 9 year old the right terminology but not my 4 year old. I let her enjoy thinking she is seeing the real like animation stuff. I think a lot of clown looking fish will get called nemo because they don't really know what they are looking at nor do they care. I will tell kids at the LFS store what they are really called but they don't care. It's like telling them Beethoven and Cujo are St. Bernards but if they don't really care about that breed of dog, they are going with whatever the movie showed them.
Let's just hope a cutesy movie called Finding Mantis Shrimp doesn't come out!!
Let's just hope a cutesy movie called Finding Mantis Shrimp doesn't come out!!
rlablan
Active Member
Hahaha I don't know it I will be seeing a movie about mantis... Except disney's Oceans. lol
I am not saying that kids can't be kids, I just think that parents should know the difference. Even if they aren't into saltwater... Even to a
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eye, I think that someone should be able to tell the difference between a cinnamon clown and a percula clown.
When you're at a VERY NICE PUBLIC aquarium, where the info is very clearly there, you shouldn't be misleading your child. These kids were also like 10 years old... If they were 2 it wouldn't matter. I just think it's funny that these parents are taking their kids to a place with so much info and it's such a learning experience and they teach them the wrong things.
I am not saying that kids can't be kids, I just think that parents should know the difference. Even if they aren't into saltwater... Even to a
[hr]
eye, I think that someone should be able to tell the difference between a cinnamon clown and a percula clown.
When you're at a VERY NICE PUBLIC aquarium, where the info is very clearly there, you shouldn't be misleading your child. These kids were also like 10 years old... If they were 2 it wouldn't matter. I just think it's funny that these parents are taking their kids to a place with so much info and it's such a learning experience and they teach them the wrong things.
Originally Posted by BTLDreef
http:///forum/post/3229323
There are three LFS's within an hour of me that play "Finding Nemo" non-stop in their store. One of those stores also sells already set up 1.5G tanks with a baby "nemo" in it. Just sends them off to die.
Who's doing that?
http:///forum/post/3229323
There are three LFS's within an hour of me that play "Finding Nemo" non-stop in their store. One of those stores also sells already set up 1.5G tanks with a baby "nemo" in it. Just sends them off to die.
Who's doing that?
beaslbob
Well-Known Member
All of this maybe true but you might also consider the reverse.
I have had tanks since the late '70s and me and the wife had a yellow tang, and clown in our 55g a year or so before Nemo.
We laughed our off not for how cute the fishes were but because we had already seen some of that behaviour in our aquariums (like the yellow tang school crossing cop). Therefore we better "got the joke".
To us Nemo reflects the popularity of fishes already in home tanks.
my .02
or in reverse
20. ym
I have had tanks since the late '70s and me and the wife had a yellow tang, and clown in our 55g a year or so before Nemo.
We laughed our off not for how cute the fishes were but because we had already seen some of that behaviour in our aquariums (like the yellow tang school crossing cop). Therefore we better "got the joke".
To us Nemo reflects the popularity of fishes already in home tanks.
my .02
or in reverse
20. ym
btldreef
Moderator
Originally Posted by BTLDreef
http:///forum/post/3230330
GC Fish and Reef
The guys over on Ocean Ave in Ronkonkoma? Been in there a few times and found the workers incredibly rude and they had no idea what they were talking about. Prices were pretty crazy too...
http:///forum/post/3230330
GC Fish and Reef
The guys over on Ocean Ave in Ronkonkoma? Been in there a few times and found the workers incredibly rude and they had no idea what they were talking about. Prices were pretty crazy too...
mrdc
Active Member
Originally Posted by DragonZim
http:///forum/post/3230752
The guys over on Ocean Ave in Ronkonkoma? Been in there a few times and found the workers incredibly rude and they had no idea what they were talking about. Prices were pretty crazy too...
I have one LFS store near me where I also find the workers to be rude. They never welcome you into their store and never ask if they can help you find anything. At least for me, I am never looking for anything but just like going in to browse. Though I still think it's rude of them not to offer any assistance. They do always have very clean tanks and the prices are high but I rarely give them any of my business. They have been around for a long time so I guess they do get a lot of paying customers.
http:///forum/post/3230752
The guys over on Ocean Ave in Ronkonkoma? Been in there a few times and found the workers incredibly rude and they had no idea what they were talking about. Prices were pretty crazy too...
I have one LFS store near me where I also find the workers to be rude. They never welcome you into their store and never ask if they can help you find anything. At least for me, I am never looking for anything but just like going in to browse. Though I still think it's rude of them not to offer any assistance. They do always have very clean tanks and the prices are high but I rarely give them any of my business. They have been around for a long time so I guess they do get a lot of paying customers.