Finding Nemo is 20 years old. Here’s how it changed reefkeeping forever
2 WEEKS AGOIt’s hard to believe it’s twenty years since Pixar launched the computer-animated adventure of clownfish Nemo, his dad Marlin and the forgetful Blue Regal tang Dory. We think we’ve watched it 50 times since then, first on DVD and a widescreen TV, and most lately streamed over the internet on OLED.
We worked in an aquatic store when it first aired, and kids (and their parents,) have been referring to Amphiprion ocellaris as Nemo ever since. The award-winning animation actually created a spike in internet searches for saltwater aquariums, in 2003/2004, and when you look back to the saltwater aquarium companies which formed at that time, EcoTech Marine and Reef Builders being just two of them, we have all been riding the wave of much more mainstream marine keeping ever since. But was it a good thing?
We remember media reports that anemones were being stripped of their clownfish on the Great Barrier Reef as a result of much greater interest in keeping them at the time, although there are much bigger Clownfish exporting countries than Australia, and tank-bred clownfish were already established in the industry when Finding Nemo launched. It did make more people want to keep them, however, and we have been advising newbies on what exactly they need in order to keep Nemo ever since.
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It's hard to believe it's twenty years since Pixar launched the computer-animated adventure of clownfish Nemo, his dad Marlin and the forgetful Blue Regal tang Dory. We think we’ve watched it 50 times…
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