My wife and niece name all inhabitants, fish, crabs, shrimp and even larger snails and hermit crabs that are easily distinguished from the rest. I am told that it is there job to name and enjoy, it is my job to do the little things like care for and maintain the tank.
Purple tang: Pookie - belies her sweet gentle personality
Bristletooth tang: LaQuanda - named after a youtube video
Borbonias anthias: Herbie- looks like a yellow punch buggy
Masuda hogfish: Castro - cigar shaped
Clowns have no names
black combtooth blenny- Monster truck.. he can back that thing up
We name every fish. Considering we have 7 tanks, too many names to list here. My husband has a friend who names all of his fish the price he paid for them. lol. not sure what he does if he has 2 the same price. EX. his dwarf angel is named $49.95, damsel is $6.99.
We name every fish. Considering we have 7 tanks, too many names to list here. My husband has a friend who names all of his fish the price he paid for them. lol. not sure what he does if he has 2 the same price. EX. his dwarf angel is named $49.95, damsel is $6.99.
I used to name everything, but a couple of crashes later only thing named are the survivors. I have 13 fish and only the following are named...
Clown- Krusty The Clown
Black and white clown- Pepper
Melanerus Wrasse- Sebastian (Green & Orange like The "U")
Rock Blenny- Carlos (after my roommate cuz his belly is huge)
Pacific Blue Tail Lobster- Blue (after the old dude from Old School)
I saw one of these threads where the guy named his fish after characters from Futurama, and thought that was kinda cool.
I thought about something similar, but I too had bad juju from naming fish, and I can't tell my anthias apart from each other.
The only fish that got named were bullies, and UA won't allow me to post those names...
My black clownfish pair: Blackjack and Shamu (Ironically, Shamu is the male)
Black female seahorse: Shanaynay
Seahorse pair: Mr Giggles and CrayCray (Craycray is my female)
My two yellow tangs: Big tang, little tang
All of the rest of my fish are just called by their common names. If I have more than one of a fish, I name them to identify them. The only pair of fish I have that aren't named are a pair of orange clownfish.
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