Do you name your fish or inverts?

[Mikedawg]

I very much prefer to use scientific names starting with Family. Easy to remember, even easier to pronounce and never fails to impress at cocktail parties, lol.

 

[Evan28395950]

Same. Benny the blenny

I'm not interested in naming our fish. I never have in the past, but now my kids want to name them. So yeah...we have Smiley, Onyx and Benny the Blenny.

 

[WVNed]

I very much prefer to use scientific names starting with Family. Easy to remember, even easier to pronounce and never fails to impress at cocktail parties, lol.

Einstein the foxface and Tesla the tang.

 

[Swoody]

It’s my Wife’s thing and I’m good with anything that keeps her interested in this hobby!!
Tito-Yellow Tang
Red- WTBT Tang
Tony B- Borbonius Anthias
Billy&Clio- Clown pair
Lucky- YT Damsel
Bella- Bellus Angel
Karl- Bengaii Cardinal
The corals get to keep the wacky names Adam at BC gives them! Lol

 

[FinnyGyrrl]

The ones with Too Much Personality earn appropriate names! Like "Timmy" the invisible royal gramma (cowering behind rocks! Timid.). The rest seem to acquire SpongeBob-esque titles, which to my satisfaction, totally ANNOY family members. Imagine ending texts with, "Pipey the Pipefish salutes you!" FYI, these are not aquarium people!! ROFL.

 

[FinnyGyrrl]

I had to steal "Rasputia" for an ocellaris female tank terror! Love that girl!!

 

[starypotter]

Lucy & Ricky the Cleaner Shrimp

Lucky and Ricky, Amazing, love it. I better be careful or I'll have a pair named the same.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Nope. A copperband is a copperband and a cleaner shrimp is a cleaner shrimp. Many who see my tank ask what is that fish ( Naso tang as an example). I prefer to educate them on what a tang is and not Hank, the nicest fish in the tank.

 

[starypotter]

There are some really great names on here.
I won't name my fish until they're out of QT, they're all just called by their name, but I've named some of my inverts and corals.
I'll let you all play the guessing game on some of them
Pepper-
Turbo-
Halloweeny- the very shy Halloween hermit crab
Clammy-
Hammer-

Then there's also Crabby (x2) one had an identity crisis and has been chilling in a shell.

Then there's Jacques

and Hermie-

 

[Bob Weigant]

only once and it was Mr. Skizto. It was a wrasse I no longer have. The name escapes me. I think it was a high fin wrasse but not 100% sure. Anyways he drove all the other fish crazy with his " I'm gonna swim around this tank as fast as I can." you never knew when he was gonna take off going all skitzo

 

[ZoWhat]

Actually my WIFE names them....

When she sees what I bought behind her back....she says

"looky here, you bought a %$@!n new fish....and look at this new &#$%n new coral too"

 

[NY_Caveman]

Lucky and Ricky, Amazing, love it. I better be careful or I'll have a pair named the same.

My eight year old came up with those. Not sure how an eight year old knows I Love Lucy, but for now I blame YouTube.

 

[starypotter]

My eight year old came up with those. Not sure how an eight year old knows I Love Lucy, but for now I blame YouTube.

It's a classic why not!

 

[kirstyflash]

...Billy&Clio- Clown pair

Weird I have an uncle billy and his wife is Cleo.

 

[kirstyflash]

Lawnmower Blenny -Benny (not original)
bicolour Blenny - Lenny aka lando carlrissian
Clown pair- fluttershy and Harris
Clown pair- solo and Leia
Coral banded shrimp- Vader
Pistol shrimp -Yoda
Royal Gramma- Bobby
Scooter Blenny pair- scooter and skeeter
Lemon clown goby- guppy
Purple fire goby- Bessie
Yellow tang- caramello
Gbta- booger
Giant trochus snail- mammoth
Small striped turbo snail- pearl
Red Xmas worm- poof
And there are a few un-named critters only because they haven’t shown personality just yet or there are so many, it’s hard to find the right names for them

 

[64Ivy]

Had a Sohal Tang named Attilla once but I don't usually name them. Currently, I do have a male Genicanthus Semifasciatus whom I refer to as 'Fatboy" but that's really more of a nickname between he and I.

 

[AcroNem]

No, because they already have names

 

[Captain Quint]

I guess I'm the party pooper.

I have not named tank inhabitants since ~1980 I believe.

 

[Captain Quint]

I guess I'm the party pooper.

I have not named tank inhabitants since ~1980 I believe.

 

[Bob Lauson]

Some names based on Finding Nemo (obviously)
Both clown fish - Nemo
Yellow Tang - Bubbles
Hippo Tang - Dori
Sailfin Tang - Shishi (grand daughter named)
Lawnmower Blenny - Grandpa due to the bushy eyebrows
Copperband Butterfly - Copper
Firefish - Todd because we bought him with Copper (Todd and Copper from Disney)
Flame Hawkfish - Tony because he reminded us of Tony Soprano in the way he perches and just surveys his turf
Cardinal Fish - the Jets because we bought them as the same time we bought the blenny - B B B B Blenny and the Jets
Powder Blue Tang - Herman because we thought he looks like Herman Munster
Magnificent Foxface - Foxy (boring and obvious name selection)
Blue/Green Chromis - Bean Dip - because I misunderstood what my daughter-in-law refereed to them as and it sounded like bean dip