Do you name your fish? Why or why not?

[I_Got_Crabs]

I'm often surprised by my reefing buddies' naming habits. One of the least sentimental guys I know names every fish he has (mostly after star wars or nintendo characters), and then there's another friend who only has one fish that remains nameless.

Why do you or don't you name your fish? And what are some of your favourite or best fish names?

 

[I_Got_Crabs]

We name all our fish. This helps keep my wife interested in our tank, and know when a fish has been missing or acting strangely when I'm out of town. If it was just me, I would likely naturally reserve nicknames for my favourite fish.

Wobbly Man, our Midas Blenny, is one of my favourites.

 

[ihavecrabs]

My family names mine. They all have some interesting and hilarious names..

 

[Mayerlyn A]

My seven year old named all of our fish and the shrimp. They are our pets , so it seems right that they all have names.

 

[Katrina71]

We name most of ours. The best ones are not forum appropriate.

 

[I_Got_Crabs]

We name most of ours. The best ones are not forum appropriate.

Why, did you give your Slippery Dick a rude name?

 

[Katrina71]

Why, did you give your Slippery Dick a rude name?

Lol!

 

[Geebs19]

We name all of ours. LFS have us good advice and said wait 90 days to name them. My wife gets attached to things and once you name them that attachment grows.

 

[Captain Quint]

Why, did you give your Slippery Dick a rude name?

I had one in an AGA 120g probably 15 years ago. I only referred to it as its Scientific Name of Halichoeres bivittatus. lol

 

[Captain Quint]

I've never named them, however, I do call my diamond goby a particular name when it jumps out of the tank 9 out of 10 times when I have the screen top off to clean the tank. argh.

 

[seaplane]

Of course!! George and Gracie, Grumps, Sky, Dotty, Goldfinger, Shrimp, Corella, and Fang, are all family.

 

[cromag27 Verified Sponsor]

no. and if i did, they would all be obscene names. that way when i repeat them to people, they would feel uncomfortable for even asking if i named my fish.

 

[Captain Quint]

no. and if i did, they would all be obscene names. that way when i repeat them to people, they would feel uncomfortable for even asking if i named my fish.

haha you can imagine the name i call my diamond when it jumps out then.

 

[ca1ore]

One of the least sentimental guys I know names every fish he has

This made me chuckle. Unsentimental guys are often closet romantics. I know I am, even though I don’t name my fish. I even suggested to my wife to not bother to name our kids either .... number one and number two seemed entirely sensible to me. I view my tank first and foremost as an ecosystem - that’s my primary objective and individual fish or corals are secondary to that goal so I’m generally unsentimental about them.

 

[User]

Yep

Wife’s picks— she’s in a West Wing rewatch right now

CJ and Craig the onyx Picasso’s
Leo the cleaner shrimp
Toby the (Randall’s) goby

My pick-

Michael J. Foxface

Still stocking up the new tank...

 

[DarkSky]

If they have names, it's their common name with a "y" added to the end... e.g. our rose scale wrasse is "Rosey", the cleaner wrasse is "cleany", the melenarus wrasse is "melly", etc.

We used to have better names when I had less fish in a smaller tank, now that I've got a larger tank and 12+ fish... eh

 

[Evan28395950]

Benny the blenny

 

[PDR]

I have never named my fish, but I do usually name my shrimp for some reason lol.

 

[ReefTeacher]

I don't name my fish, they are specimens!

 

[Steve_Skullsplitter0]