Do you guys name your fish?

[scdigby]

i let my family choose names. i have lost track of who's who, because some of the fish end up with multiple names.

 

[JessenD]

Hahaha I name some of mine my kole eyes name is P.F. Tang
my conch is Marshall’s Wallace
and I call my clowns “ the ginnies” because the were the first one in

 

[SMSREEF]

Only fish with me past 6 months get a name.
Iggy = Fire fish
Charles = Benggai Cardinalfish
Loco = Green clown goby
Sandra = Orchid dottyback
Mikee (little guy) = Naked Oscellaris Clownfish
Prince Harry = Carpenter flasher wrasse

 

[revenant]

Yes.. sailfin is Beverly... foxface is Foxy... then Nat King Kole tang.. and my two fire shrimp are Bonnie and Clyde.

 

[Aheinz]

I name mine, sadly I recently rehomed my entire tank in preparation for a cross country move, but I do have my frag tabk that is awaiting being set up after the move

 

[Locutus617]

I never name them. As odd as it sounds, even after owning fish for 20 years, any time I have named a fish i have lost them soon after. Needless to say after a few times I learned my lesson and never named one since.

 

[Jib]

My wife name my Clownfish "Munchie", because when we got him he went on a 9 day hunger strike and we didnt think he would make it. We like irony, so the name seemed to fit.

 

[Jowieg]

All of my fish have names and I prefer to have my 6 year old choose because he comes up with the best names. We just bought a fire fish several weeks ago and he named it Starfire. Our cleaner shrimp is Bacon because the body reminds him of bacon.

 

[Jowieg]

Looks like a bacon

 

[Steph72]

All mine have names. Hubby thinks I’m crazy and I can’t deny that! Lol They’re my babies

 

[fishkeepinginasia]

We were trying to think of names for our Purple Fire Fish (now known as Violet) and our YWG and it got me to thinking if people name their fish?

Frankly I really don't know, I always just assumed they were like dogs or cats, you name them. So what do you guys do?

My maroon clown is named BingBing and my longspine urchin is Spike.

 

[Memisis]

Kids named the clowns:
Wyoming white clown - Winter
Mocha occelaris - Mocha 2
Wife and I named these guys:
Purple tang - Wu Tang Forever
Skunk shrimp: Chop & Sticks (bigger one is sticks)
Purple pincushion urchin - Urchibald (Urchy for short)
We have one lonely purple heart zoanthid right now i jokingly call - Zoe Des-a-shell

I think we will keep naming, its really fun for us. Also i read in the fish keepers handbook its OK to recycle names if any fish dies and is replaced. Its up to you if you add a number (Mocha 2.....)

 

[jesspal]

Mr. P
Kermit
Sherlock
Adam
Hermione
Hermit the hermit.
Tico and Fred have passed and are buried in pill bottle coffins along with headstones.

 

[CelestEel]

My daughter names the fish.

 

[Coralsdaily]

I typically don't, but I've jokingly named some ******* tangs as some of my least favorite office mates.

 

[Gurlie1040]

I’ve named everyone:
Watchman goby: Richard
Firefish: Kindle (fire)
Fox face: Foxy
Blonde Naso tang: MikeMike
4 blue chromis: google chromies
Pajama cardinals: Lurch and Fester
Flame angel: was Angel, now little D@$k angel
Emperor angel: D@$k angel
Lawnmower Blenny: Carlos Alejandro Huskavarna
Mandarin: Super G
Sea hare: Harry Hamlin
Long spine urchin: Tina
Copper banded butterfly: Copper
Large black tipped crab in my fuge: the Dark Knight.

 

[Jesterrace]

We were trying to think of names for our Purple Fire Fish (now known as Violet) and our YWG and it got me to thinking if people name their fish?

Frankly I really don't know, I always just assumed they were like dogs or cats, you name them. So what do you guys do?

I gave up on naming my fish a while back. Now I simply call them by what they are. If I had to though, I would likely go based on their personality traits (ie Foxface would be called Spaz).

 

[BeltedCoyote]

I just remembered a name someone else had for a convict tang that still makes me chuckle randomly and get the “what’s wrong with you?!” Look from my lady....

“Butt badger bob”. You can probably guess why...lol

 

[Clownfish_Boy]

Meet "Red" the Maroon Clown and "Violet" the Coral Beauty Angel.....

 

[MabuyaQ]

I don't name my fish, but a fish was named after me... poor fish.