Naming your fish

OMG, I just got the cutest fish ever from LA!!! It's a flashlight fish, and all night he swims around flashing, so bright it lights up the sand underneath him. I named him Sparky! Now everyone say a prayer! I am usually pretty good with delicate fish, but have not had one of these before. Super hard to get, I was on an email alert for 4 years!
 
My oldest grand daughter names mine.....except for my Copperband Butterfly, he was named Beaker by his first owner...very descriptive.

Some of them do get called names by me when they are causing trouble.
 
Sk8r said:
We name them, because stonogobiops nematodes is a mouthful. The escape-artist blenny: Houdini. This eases communication---"Have you seen Houdini today?"
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This is why we name some of ours. We tend to use fairly direct, not very creative names. It's much easier to say "look at Rainford" than "look at the rainford goby." The clingfish is named Klinger. The tiger goby is Tig.
 
ahuaia said:
How many people name there fish? I never used to name my fish but after so many people asked me what my fishes names were I started naming them a few tanks back. Now I have two clown fish and have named them ia and shimmy. Anyways my real question is how many of you guys actually bother to name your fish?

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In the fowlr
William Wallace-blueface angel
Paris Hilton-blonde naso
Homie and homer-the clownfish (in living color?:) ).
Ace-sailfin Tang
Bowser-dogface puffer
Cesar-emperor angel
Scruffy-bluejaw trigger
Bugs-rabbitfish




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Mrporter said:
In the fowlr
William Wallace-blueface angel
Paris Hilton-blonde naso
Homie and homer-the clownfish (in living color?:) ).
Ace-sailfin Tang
Bowser-dogface puffer
Cesar-emperor angel
Scruffy-bluejaw trigger
Bugs-rabbitfish




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Wow, I love the name for your blueface angel, but then my ancestry runs heavily in Scotland and Ireland. [emoji3]

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I've got to find names for my LTA, and a new feather duster. I'm thinking Fifi for the 2nd., and maybe big red 1 for later.

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110 salt tank:
Lionfish-Kungfu(bc he always lowering his head)
Marine Beta-Thriller(bc of feeding dance)
Mandarin Goby-Gucci
Foxface Rabbit-Emoji
Big Blue Hippo Tang-Moto Moto
36 salt tank:
4 Hippo erects Seahorses:
Nostrodamus"Nodi"
Athena
Afro-di-T
Aeres
Freshwater individual vessels:
2freshwater betas
Angel
Cockie

Being a fommie (fish mommy 😂) means its okay to name them ,if you want. I gaze at them for a really long time in the store and if I can't come up a name I usually don't get them. Have to have character/sign they are thriving.
 
Dee L Brown said:
110 salt tank:
Lionfish-Kungfu(bc he always lowering his head)
Marine Beta-Thriller(bc of feeding dance)
Mandarin Goby-Gucci
Foxface Rabbit-Emoji
Big Blue Hippo Tang-Moto Moto
36 salt tank:
4 Hippo erects Seahorses:
Nostrodamus"Nodi"
Athena
Afro-di-T
Aeres
Freshwater individual vessels:
2freshwater betas
Angel
Cockie

Being a fommie (fish mommy 😂) means its okay to name them ,if you want. I gaze at them for a really long time in the store and if I can't come up a name I usually don't get them. Have to have character/sign they are thriving.
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Fommy to another fommy, do you find yourself talking to your fin babies like you do a fur baby, or human babies? I do, and not at all ashamed to admit it.

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Years ago we had a six line wrasse that my youngest at the time named him Justin after a friend.

This time around we just call the new six line "the beebs"
My Tomini tang is "tangalicious"
Tuxedo urchin "Mario"
Bangaii cardinal "bad guy"
Few others we still haven't named
 
We've let the kids name them, but we name them according to species. Therefore, every yellow tang we've ever had is named "Bob".
Usually they get too big and we replace him with a small Yellow Tang. I think we've had 5 Bobs so far.

Bangaii Cardinalfish are always called "Old Man McGuire"
Just look at him.
 
Only my Yellow Tang has a name which is Wu and the rest of the fish are referred to as the clan. So I have the Wu Tang Clan in my tank LOL
 
My little girl names all of mine...

Yellow Tang - Sunshine
Harlequin Tusk - Rainbow Unicorn
Dori, Nemo, and Marlin of course
Blonde Naso Tang - Lips
Copperband Butterfly - Goldie
Black Clownfish pair - Blackie and Snow
Blue Throat Trigger - Spike "was unicorn until we got rainbow unicorn"
Royal Gamma - the LSU fish
Flame Angel - Red
Sailfin - Dotty

and my favorite name because she talks to it all the time...
Yellow Watchman Goby - Mr. Grumpy Pants
 
My little girl names all of mine...

Yellow Tang - Sunshine
Harlequin Tusk -
Dori, Nemo, and Marlin of course
Blonde Naso Tang - Lips Rainbow Unicorn
Dori, Nemo, and M
Copperband Butterfly - Goldie
Black Clownfish pair - Blackie and Snow
Blue Throat Trigger - Spike "was unicorn until we got rainbow unicorn"
Royal Gamma - the LSU fish
Flame Angel - Red
Sailfin - Dotty

and my favorite name because she talks to it all the time...
Yellow Watchman Goby - Mr. Grumpy Pants
 
Love all the names. I let other people name my fish but I never refer to them that way. I 'm picking fish by different colors so I just refer to them as: Red, Yellow, Green, etc :P
 
never really named my fish per se'. But they all do have pet names.

Little gobe - warpaint/green clown goby
Flamy - flame angel
dotty - neon dottyback
spike - a chiton that has some type of algae on his back and looks like spikes.
mandy - green mandarin

I have other fish, but those are the only ones with "names". My wife comes up with the names. :lolspin:
 
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