What type of fish is dory

Their appeal is their bright blue colouration with yellow tail and striking black markings, and as juveniles, they look super cute. Unlike most clownfish however Regal tangs are wild-caught, not tank bred, so are sensitive to poor water quality and susceptible to disease.

In fish-only tanks Whitespot treatments can be used but for tanks with inverts, a large UV steriliser is the best form of defence against Whitespot. Most Regal tangs are kept singly. When Disney released their live-action adaptation of Dalmatians in , the charm of the dogs onscreen had a significant impact on sales of the breed.

So much so, in fact, that animal activists voiced their concern that people were buying Dalmatians without understanding their unique temperament, leading to scores of Dalmatians ending up in shelters. Both of these films led to millions of people becoming infatuated with the friendly Dory voiced by Ellen DeGeneres , who has a very poor short-term memory. Dory is a Paracanthurus hepatus , or Pacific blue tang fish, that is sometimes referred to as a royal blue tang or hippo tang.

At night, without light to reflect off its pigmentation, it can appear white with violet touches. While there was little to no evidence to support this story, with so much repetition, the so-called Nemo Effect became conventional wisdom. The calls were, however, dwarfed by the more than 50m spectators who watched the movie in the US alone.

Could there be a Dory Effect? Dory is a blue tang, a species found across much of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Still, increased sales could constitute a threat to wild populations since, in contrast with clownfish which are often bred specially for the trade , blue tangs cannot be reared in captivity and there are no alternatives to wild-caught fish. To find out if there had been a Dory Effect, my co-authors and I compared how sales of blue tang fish changed over time, as compared to other species of the same family that are also traded as pets.

Our results are now published in the journal Ambio. We found no link between the release of the movie and the number of fish imported into the US, where many of the viewers were located. This is to some extent not surprising as blue tang are large and hard to keep, and so not particularly suitable for first-time fish enthusiasts.

So what other things could movie goers do as a result of watching Finding Dory? There is some evidence that animated blockbusters can influence people to visit these and other ornamental fish at an aquarium.