dorys just keep swimming mantra might make her seem like a gogetter but in reality once out of the ocean the blue tang cant survive for long anticipating the increase in demand for blue tangs following the release of finding dory animal welfare organisations are urging people to not buy these fish for their aquariums finding dory is the sequel of the 2003 film finding nemo after which there was high demand for the clownfish which harmed the speciesread alsohollywood takes big bite from bollywoods piein 2015 hollywoods revenue in india went up by 92 while bollywoods earnings dropped for the first time in five years as hollywood gets only stronger is this a warning signhowever aquarium dealers in the city tell us that they have already started getting queries about dory and add that most people dont even think about the survival chances of the animals they want to keep as petssuccess of movie spikes salesthe success of finding nemo a film about a clownfish searching for his kidnapped son brought about a tragic irony instead of viewers understanding the films message the demand for clownfish as pets increased threatening its population what happened to nemo now seems to be happening to dory aquarium dealers in ncr tell us that though it has been only been a couple of days since finding dorys release people have already started asking about dory deepesh dhawan owner of a marine species company says the demand for the fish will only increase with the films success and it is not just a delhi or ncr phenomenon it is worldwide after finding nemo the demand for clownfish rose by 50 we are already getting calls enquiring about the blue tang why you shouldnt buy doryunlike nemo the orange clownfish that could be bred in captivity dorys species blue tang can only breed in the wild research suggests that a majority of fish species caught in the wild such as the blue tang are exposed to cyanide poisoning taking care of a blue tang is expensive and it is not for the fainthearted as the fish can be aggressive unlike the gentle clownfish also they can grow almost a foot in just two yearsdory great at box office bad at homeblue tangs cannot live for very long in aquariums because their complex environmental needs cannot be replicated in home aquariums abhishek arora another aquarium dealer says one clownfish is sold for rs 350 but we dont even keep those forget blue tangs we can order clownfish on demand but these are either imported or supplied from kolkata or chennai the issue with blue tangs is that they have wideroaming behaviour their tank size has to be big enough at least twice or thrice the size of a regular tank else the fish wont survive but even after we explain this to people they still insist on buying oneadds dhawan it is some kind of obsession that delhi has the minimum price of a blue tang