Nemo The Film

[demonmagus]

in the marine section, someone who is new always asks the question about nemo and it isn't pretty lol

 

[n3ont3tra]

Lol. I haven't met a person who hasn't liked the movie. Even if it sets bad examples for the fish.

 

[Lynden]

Mmm. I don't mind the movie itself. I do mind that some uneducated people take it's "facts" as gospel (like certain little kids).

good survival tecnique i suppose aswell as clever

Hermaphoditism is actually very common in the seas. Marine fish need to evolve special survival techniques, such as cleaning symbiosis, venom, specialization, and hermaphroditism, or else they would soon be outcompeted; and as such most marine fish are far more evolutionarily advanced than most freshies. This is the reason we still see ancient non-teleost fishes thriving, even dominating certain freshwater ecosytems. Examples of such fishes are Bichirs, Arowana, and Pirarucu. Non-teleosts were outcompeted to extinction aeons ago in the seas; such would be the fate of almost all freshwater fishes if they ever managed to suddenly transport their entire population, adapted to saltwater, to the ocean.

In a way it's like the New Zealand scenario, except on a larger and more varied scale.

-Lynden

 

[LisaLQ]

Kids cant be expected to know the proper care for marine fish - after all - they're only kids! Tis the parent's responsibility to make sure they know what they're getting into and to care for them properly.

But to say the kids do your head in because they believe what goes on in films - hands up here how many of you as a kid thought ET was real (my hand is up - I cr*pped myself watching it and refused to go in my wardrobe for weeks), or that there were talking deer, or even that Superman might save you if you got in a stick? Naivety and imagination, when you think about it - it's really quite wonderful

Kids are kids - they dont understand. I can understand folks being peed off with countless teens/adults asking about Nemo, but if your 6 year old came up to you and said "I love Nemo, I love (insert another character here - I've not actually seen the film!) I wish I could have one!" would you seriously stand there and say "You know nothing about saltwater care, your tank isn't even cycled, these fish are incompatable, they need different conditions, how could you - have some common sense!"...?

LOL.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

a lot of the film is wrong, the doctors tank stocking has been 'discussed' several times in the marine section

beat me to it

Kids cant be expected to know the proper care for marine fish - after all - they're only kids! Tis the parent's responsibility to make sure they know what they're getting into and to care for them properly.

But to say the kids do your head in because they believe what goes on in films - hands up here how many of you as a kid thought ET was real (my hand is up - I cr*pped myself watching it and refused to go in my wardrobe for weeks), or that there were talking deer, or even that Superman might save you if you got in a stick? Naivety and imagination, when you think about it - it's really quite wonderful

Kids are kids - they dont understand. I can understand folks being peed off with countless teens/adults asking about Nemo, but if your 6 year old came up to you and said "I love Nemo, I love (insert another character here - I've not actually seen the film!) I wish I could have one!" would you seriously stand there and say "You know nothing about saltwater care, your tank isn't even cycled, these fish are incompatable, they need different conditions, how could you - have some common sense!"...?

LOL.

too right, you can't expect the kids to know what's involved in caring for them, it's down to the parents to educate the kids, fair enough you probably can't teach a 6 yr old the ins and outs of saltwater care but you can go over some basics and make them understand it's more complicated than freshwater.

 

[fishnterrapins]

It's all very well saying that its up to the parents but more often than not the parents aren't interested in what you, as an lfs employee, have to say. For example there have been many timers someone has come into me for a clownfish to put in a freshwater bowl and when I tell them that its a marine fish they go on about how fish go in any type of water, never did things like that in their day etc.

Parents don't want to know if it means they can't keep their kids happy

 

[LisaLQ]

Yeah, but what I mean is that isn't the kids fault. I was responding to this comment by Lynden:

I do mind that some uneducated people take it's "facts" as gospel (like certain little kids).

Little kids are just that, little kids. You can expect them to know how to care for fish, or the correct husbandry of certain animals. That's up to the parents, if anyone's to blame - it's them.

 

[Miss Wiggle]

It's all very well saying that its up to the parents but more often than not the parents aren't interested in what you, as an lfs employee, have to say. For example there have been many timers someone has come into me for a clownfish to put in a freshwater bowl and when I tell them that its a marine fish they go on about how fish go in any type of water, never did things like that in their day etc.

Parents don't want to know if it means they can't keep their kids happy

yeah didn't explain myself very well there sorry! i know lfs emplyee's must get hounded by parents wanting a nemo for they're kids.

but it should be the reponsibility of the parent to research and find out if something it suitable before getting it for they're kid

 

[fishnterrapins]

Sorry yeah you are right, grabbed the wrong end of the tree me thinks ... or perhaps the wrong tree

 

[Lynden]

Yeah, but what I mean is that isn't the kids fault. I was responding to this comment by Lynden:

I do mind that some uneducated people take it's "facts" as gospel (like certain little kids).

Little kids are just that, little kids. You can expect them to know how to care for fish, or the correct husbandry of certain animals. That's up to the parents, if anyone's to blame - it's them.

Indeed, you are right; but it's not just the kids. "Certain little kids" was merely an example. I agree with the quote below. Numerous teenagers and adults have asked me about the movie, and I had to say that it wasn't real, and very little on the movie was true. It annoys me that everyone knows that bears can't talk, et cetera but the ocean is some "unknown environment" that clearly nobody (few people) gives a damn about. Indeed, questions of morality and equal treatment of animals can arise if 'Nemo' is overanalysed.

It's all very well saying that its up to the parents but more often than not the parents aren't interested in what you, as an lfs employee, have to say. For example there have been many timers someone has come into me for a clownfish to put in a freshwater bowl and when I tell them that its a marine fish they go on about how fish go in any type of water, never did things like that in their day etc.

Parents don't want to know if it means they can't keep their kids happy

-Lynden