I hate "common" names!

Brazilian Buttflyfish- Great fish, mine had great personality.

As for the burberry hogfish, maybe you should try to patent this Kevin? ;)

~Michael
 
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Michael, unfortunately for every one of us that hate common names there are one thousand that hate the scientific name... :fun4:
 
I hate the Latin names, I mean c'mon does anyone know what a Taxidea taxus is, yes its a Badger.

We don't call other animals by their Latin names, why do have to call fish by them??

King Angel
Arabian Angel
Arabian Tang aka Red Sea Clown Tang
Redtooth Trigger

These sound so much better to me....Latin names are for Scientists, sorry.
 
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At least call it a sohal tang, that is the species name and the most common common name used. Not arabian tang just because you like it. Why do you think there is so much confusion? Because people like you make up names you "like". Even that off the wall website lists sohal tang first.

Latin names or scientific names are so much better, and if people put any effort into learning them like they do the common names it would be so much better. Plus lots of them follow trends that aren't hard to pick up on.

And also a lot of them are the common name, argi angelfish=Centropyge argi, eibli angelfish=Centropyge eibli, sohal tang=Acanthurus sohal, achilles tang=Acanthurus achilles, the list goes on, but it really isn't that hard to learn common reef fish!
 
Put me in the common name group.
Though it would be nice if were more standard.
I don't know that latin name for anything else, why fish?
And coral is even worse.
Anyway hats off to all that can devote the time or have the desire to learn the latin.
 
tcmfish said:
At least call it a sohal tang, that is the species name and the most common common name used. Not arabian tang just because you like it. Why do you think there is so much confusion? Because people like you make up names you "like". Even that off the wall website lists sohal tang first.

Latin names or scientific names are so much better, and if people put any effort into learning them like they do the common names it would be so much better. Plus lots of them follow trends that aren't hard to pick up on.

And also a lot of them are the common name, argi angelfish=Centropyge argi, eibli angelfish=Centropyge eibli, sohal tang=Acanthurus sohal, achilles tang=Acanthurus achilles, the list goes on, but it really isn't that hard to learn common reef fish!
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Wow, you have really enlightened me Tim, I had no idea after being in the hobby for 8 years:rolleye1: And you missed the point. Yes I call mine a Sohal Tang, and yes when I had an Achilles for 5 years I called it an Achilles and yes, I could probably name 90 percent of Triggers, 80% of Tangs, and close to 100% of large Angels by Latin names, still prefer the common in many cases.

Thanks for the lecture about your opinion though:fun2:
 
Not only I hate common names, but I can NEVER memorize them... Weird, I know, but once you start learning by scientific name you never go back.

Now to the subject in hand, I don't think keeping Bodianus speciosus in aquaria is a very good idea, unless you have a 1k gallon tank or something. These guys get HUGE, when I was in Cape Verde I saw some that were half a meter long (that is almost 2 feet for those that like imperial units), and I don't think they look very nice after they lose the juvenile coloration. I have some photos of them, will post later.
 
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