wasn't the point of the NEMO movie that NEMO wanted to return to the ocean to be with his family? So, why would a kid want to keep him in a tank and torture him the way the kid in the movie would have? Sigh.
People always ask if we have "NEMO" but thankfully we don't carry saltwater. ALso, mostly they are just looking. So, I explain to the parent that we don't have nemo (as he is SW), but that we do have some orange and white goldfish or KOI that might look similar if they just want to see. Some will tell their kids we don't have NEMO, others will go look at the goldfish to see which one looks most like NEMO.
OF course, at x-mas time, someone came in and got a little 1.7g aquarium and wanted a nemo and a dory!! They of course didn't have to be the real thing, but they wanted a blue fish and an orange one. Well, we told them about the only blue fish we had would be a betta, and that anything else really wouldn't work well in that tank. (the person was looking at the cichlids, but fortunately none of the really blue ones had colored up yet). They didn't want a betta, because they didn't want a mean fish, and just knew a betta would be mean to anyone and everyone (other fish, their kid etc.?) so they decided on two "nemos" (comet feeders for twelve cents). Then they asked how long the fish could live in the bag (like wrapped under the tree til x-mas! sigh. OH, and the whole time they were on their cell phone talking to someone about the idea and how neat it woudl be for their kid on christmas. Yeah, I"ve always wanted to open a week old dead fish, yuck!!
Emily
People always ask if we have "NEMO" but thankfully we don't carry saltwater. ALso, mostly they are just looking. So, I explain to the parent that we don't have nemo (as he is SW), but that we do have some orange and white goldfish or KOI that might look similar if they just want to see. Some will tell their kids we don't have NEMO, others will go look at the goldfish to see which one looks most like NEMO.
OF course, at x-mas time, someone came in and got a little 1.7g aquarium and wanted a nemo and a dory!! They of course didn't have to be the real thing, but they wanted a blue fish and an orange one. Well, we told them about the only blue fish we had would be a betta, and that anything else really wouldn't work well in that tank. (the person was looking at the cichlids, but fortunately none of the really blue ones had colored up yet). They didn't want a betta, because they didn't want a mean fish, and just knew a betta would be mean to anyone and everyone (other fish, their kid etc.?) so they decided on two "nemos" (comet feeders for twelve cents). Then they asked how long the fish could live in the bag (like wrapped under the tree til x-mas! sigh. OH, and the whole time they were on their cell phone talking to someone about the idea and how neat it woudl be for their kid on christmas. Yeah, I"ve always wanted to open a week old dead fish, yuck!!
Emily
