Hello, so I was gonna make this all into one big video
but I decided to split it into two different ones just so you know you don't have to skip through certain parts to get to
The part you want to see we're gonna do two different topics two different videos sounds good
Before I get started um if I start sounding really out of breath for no reason it's cuz I am here
It's kind of hard
See there's a there's a mountain right there. I am not home right now. I'm in Colorado. These chairs are really uncomfortable
It is a completely different altitude than what I'm used to in, Texas, so I get out of breath really easily
Hoo
so if I'm constantly taking big breaths it is not because I'm out of shape it is cuz I'm in
Colorado and
also kind of out of shape topic of this video
I am going to be talking today about how in in like three or four days Finding Dory is being released into the movies which
I am
Incredibly excited about because I've been waiting my whole childhood for this so I am pumped
But one thing I was not around to witness when I was younger is
How many people become interested in owning saltwater tanks after these movies are released?
I work at a pet store now
and my co-workers were telling me how during the first week of the release we're not allowed to sell "Dory" fish
Because of how many people come in just wanting them cuz their daughter son, or whatever like the way it looked in the movie
They were telling me how much of a problem they had with clownfish when Finding Nemo was released
So I just wanted to get a few facts straight with y'all about just how difficult
Owning a "Dory" fish is so I just wanted to get this you know out there
So when finding dory releases and you or your daughter or your son or your granddaughter?
Or I don't know how old you are if you're watching this video
Someone in your family or you yourself decides that you want a "dory"?
I'm gonna tell you why you don't want a dory so you don't murder dory. Here is a number one
You don't want a dory?
I don't know how much you care about the ocean, but if you're interested in saltwater fish
I'm hoping you care this just a little bit about the ocean um
Dory I don't know if you hear that. that was my brother throwing a fit way inside over there
And you can hear it out here, so imagine
How loud it is in there .the fish dory is actually called a blue tang. now blue tangs cannot really be bred in captivity
too well at this point, so when you buy a
blue tang if it does not strictly say
aquacultured Blue Tang
you are buying a blue tang that has been caught from the ocean now if you like the movie finding nemo and if you like the
Movie finding dory when you see it. They both have a lot about how
Catching fish in the ocean is a no-no why you don't want to own fish that have been caught from the Ocean and why it
Is actually affecting the ocean and hurting it?
It's a lot of play this being said there are a lot of fish that are saltwater
Fish that are now successfully being captive bred that is always the way you want to go when you get saltwater
Fish the only time I really would be ok with owning
Wild caught fish is if there is a huge amount of them in the ocean and even then it's still kind of sad to realize
The fish you own now was actually once living happily in a massive ocean and is now living in a box of water
It's kind of sad for example
I do have a lionfish that was caught in the ocean but lionfish are becoming an invasive species
There are so many of them that I thought that one can be okay and that I'm not hurting the ocean
But still it's kind of sad, so i still try to give him a really big tank, okay?
so if you don't care about the fact that you are going against what that whole movie was about you know catching a fish from
The Ocean and you still want your dory reason number two you don't want a blue tang?
Regardless of reason number one is that blue Tangs get one foot long, so if you imagine a foot?
swimming around
It's a big fish it cannot live in a ten gallon. Tank it cannot live in a 20 gallon
Tank it could not live in a 30 40 50 60 70 80
It can't live in any of those tanks blue tangs in the wild travel hundreds and hundreds of miles
Every day while they're swimming they would just swim and swim and swim and swim for hundreds of miles
Every day a blue tank cannot swim hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of miles in a tank
it can't because it's going to hit the wall, so in a tank a
appropriate size for a blue tank you need to have a
120 Gallon Tank or bigger. This is a really big tank and
Honestly if you get anything smaller than that your blue tang will not live its whole life it won't it's going to die young
It's going to get ill
ETc, Etc, Etc. It's not going to be happy and why would you want to own an animal that is unhappy being owned?
Because it looks cool because that's stupid reason blue tangs not only are caught from the wild get over a foot long
Need a 120 gallon tank or preferably at least twice that size
They also live for over ten years if you do get an appropriate size tank if you do get that
120 Gallon Tank, which is normally about six hundred seven hundred dollars unless you find
You know like one on sale if you do get one thing like that if you do get all the supplies
you're going to have that fish for ten years if it does live healthy and
successfully
And you do do everything right. do you really want to fish for ten years just because you like the talking version of it
in a movie
Think about it
Let's just go over what I've said so far
Blue tangs number one are caught from the ocean goes completely against what all finding
Nemo is about it's going to get a footlong it
Can't live in a small tank 120 gallons are bigger one footlong] fish Ten year
It's Gonna get huge those reasons alone should stop you
But if you're still like you know what I can do this
You need to realize how much money this is going to cost you and now let me let me make this clear if you already
know really into owning fish, and you've had so much experience before and you want to get a giant tank
Go for it, but you just need to know
How much you're about to pay for all this and if you're still ok with it?
yay, let's say you've owned betta fish or you know a big freshwater tank or a small freshwater tank, whatever it is
Let's say you've owned a freshwater tank and now you want a dory blue tang
I'm gonna call her blue tang from now on because these are not dory's they don't act like dory
They just kind of look like dory going from a freshwater tank to a saltwater tank that large for a blue tang is not going
To work for you
It's just not you have to take baby steps
And you definitely definitely definitely definitely
Cannot go out by the tank put the fish in at the day you bought it
And think it's going to be fine no matter
It doesn't matter if you got a thousand gallon tank, you fill it up with water you put the fish in there
It's gonna Die that's not how it works for saltwater tanks you think the ocean is just tap water with some salt in it
No, it's not it's a lot more than that
it really helps me when I can visualize things so think about it this way think of a freshwater tank as a
Chihuahua. you've had your chihuahua for a few months, and you've done fine, or maybe you've had your chihuahua for years
And you've done great with it, remember Chihuahua equals freshwater tank. That's what I'm talking about right now
I'm not talking about your wallet
You cannot just say you know what I've done well with this chihuahua now I can own an Arctic Fox
That doesn't make sense think about this as a world or you know owning arctic foxes is a thing
you would not get an arctic fox. Just because you successfully took care of a chihuahua. Just they're not so arctic foxes saltwater tank
Chihuahua is a freshwater tank. they are different my first salt water tank
I ever owned was a 75 gallon, and I went from never owning Saltwater tanks having this 40 gallon
$300 tank that I thought was expensive to
Getting a 75 gallons of water tank. I spent about a thousand dollars on everything I needed for that tank
And that's a 75 gallon, so imagine a 120 gallon minimum for a blue tank
Saltwater tanks, not only are extremely expensive, but they also require an extreme amount of knowledge to successfully care for them
So to successfully own a blue tang you will need a tank
That's about 6 to 7 feet long 3 feet wide you will need about
$1,000 worth of supplies and this really isn't including me
$500 tank you're gonna need a lot of time. I spend every day about 20 30 minutes doing maintenance
You're gonna have to be really patient with saltwater
tanks because they need to cycle for at least 3 months before you add a fish you have to basically
Replicate the Ocean in a tiny little box blue tangs on average are about $30
Just for the fish and you might think you know I have 30 dollars in my pocket
I can go get it if you still think that rewatch this video cuz you're obviously missing all of it
Yeah, so hopefully you don't still want a blue tang if you do
good luck um I
Have been owning fish for quite some time and I had a blue tang in my 70 gallon tank
And I figured you know at that size. She'll be fine in that tank, and when she grows. I'll get her a bigger tank
That's also a thing you should not think
Don't think just because the blue tang is small you can put it in the small tank
It is going to be stressed it is going to be freaked out it might not even eat
let me just say that tangs are literally illness magnets they get sick so easily so
That's a whole nother topic. You don't want to deal with sick fish
It's not as easy as it sounds even at a young age when they are. You know only a few inches
They still won't do well in small tanks
they will get sick very commonly you don't want to risk it and you don't want to make excuses to own the fish because I
Promise you when it starts to get bigger. You're gonna say oh, it's been doing fine. I don't need to get it a bigger tank
no, just pick something else pick something else and
Enjoy Dory in the wild and enjoy dory enjoy the animated version of dory and finding dory and in finding nemo
Enjoy her as an animated fish with Ellen Degeneres's voice
And you really don't need to spend that much money to most likely be giving a fish and adequate at most life
His fish lifes mattered too anyway on my next video
we'll talk about nemo and how can own nemo in a much smaller take yes at a high cost but not as high as
Dory and
Also, how they can live a healthy happy lives. I'm going to go enjoy, Colorado for the rest of the time
I am here is very pretty out here. This is the view for my house
I'm also going to upload a video of the scenery here a tour of my house because it's really nice here, it's beautiful
I never want to leave anyway. Thank you for watching
I hope y'all guys enjoy finding dory um I knew I'm going to and I'm not getting paid for this
I actually just really care about fish, so
Thank you
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