saltwater fish?

Question

what are all the saltwater fish in the aquarium in the dentist in finding nemo???
i am planning on replicating the set up.

90 gal tank

Answer 1

Movies are great entertainment, but don't reflect real-life fishkeeping. A complete "Nemo" themed tank would not really possible to do. Pufferfish (Bloat) are very aggressive and should be kept in a tank by themselves. Even then, connsidering the adult sizes of the fish and their personalities, you'd need a tank over 100 gallons. A Pacific Blue (hippo) tang like Dory needs a 100 gallon tank itself by the time it reaches 12-14 inches. Moorish idols (Gill) are difficult to keep alive even by expert fishkeepers (although a Heniochus looks similar and is far easier to keep).

A 70 gallon is the minimum size Bubbles would be okay in. You could add an Ocellaris clown (Nemo), a royal gramma, also called a bicolor pseudochromis (Gurgle), a 4 stripe damsel (Deb), and a cleaner shrimp (Jacques) without any problems.

And if you don't have any experience with saltwater tanks, do a lot of research before trying to set this up:
http://www.peteducation.com/index.cfm?cls=16
http://www.wetwebmedia.com/

Answer 2

Its fine to start off with a salt water tank. The key to success it to take your time. Yes it will cost more just because you have to buy the salt mix and fish tend to be more expensive. How much more is really up to you. Its a hobbie that can be a never ending expence. For starters I would not get a tank bigger then a 55 gal unless money really is not an issue. The reason I say this is because the cost of running a smaller tank is a lot less especially if you have problems. Sure they are more sensitive to change but are much easier to adjust as well. So there is a trade off. Sorry I have no idea of good saltwater shops in Chicago. But by all means hunt around for one. Soot you should be able to find several which will be helpful. Pick up a book that explains how to setup the aquarium and give you step by step instructions. The book I used was "The New Marine Aquarium" by Michael S. Paletta. Its not that big of a book with easy instructions to follow. Other good books are the PocketExperts guild books. They have two for marine fish and one for invertabrates which come in really handy when trying to figure out what fish you want. Hope this helps PK

Answer 3

Clownfish, Moorish Idol, Puffer Fish, Cleaner Shrimp, Royal Gramma, Starfish, and 4 - Stripe Damselfish. But I highly doubt that they would get along together. Moorish Idols and Puffer Fish are not very friendly in a tank with those fish. Not to mention the tank size would have to be over 500 gallons. I'll provide links for every type of fish.

~ZTM

Answer 4

You cant replicate it, the fish aren't compatible the Moorish idol is IMPOSSIBLE to keep in an aquarium even experts can't do it.

There is a similar fish to the Moorish Idol that you can keep called Pennant coralfish

The puffer is a porcupine and should be kept alone.

Answer 5

finding nemo was a very wrong movie, as it makes alot of folks want to set it up for their kids, but they want to do it in a 10 gallon or small tank.

The fishes in that fishtank are really for 75+ gallons.

Just to get that out of the way.

Anyway,

false percula,
moorish idol,
puffer,
cleaning shrimp,
There was a species of wrasse,
star fish.

There are probably a few more.

in the movie also includes

blue tang,
another false percula,
and maybe a few others.


but you stepped in the rght direction getting help first.

Again, finding nemo set ups need to be large. moorish idols need alot of room.

Answer 6

Just make sure that they will get along together in real life. Not all fish get along!

http://web.mit.edu/seagrant/edu/res/nemo/

Answer 7

im young so i might b wrong clownfish,yellow tang ,starfish,im srry i cant remember the others

Answer 8

erm all i remember was the clown fish. the blow fish and the angel. and there was a starfish and a shrimp too.