Do you name your fish? Why or why not?

[Steve_Skullsplitter0]

Even many of the corals get names. But certainly my fish get names.

Dick n jane are my clowns.

 

[Katrina71]

I heart Spike too!

 

[IgnatiusRath]

I name almost all my fish George. Can't forget George.

 

[Shufflepig]

Kids name every fish. Sandy Cheeks the sleeper goby is my favorite. They even named the CUC. Snails are Marco and hermit crabs are all Polo

 

[Steve_Skullsplitter0]

Spike is a naughty boy tonight. No algae presents from Santa. Those are 2 frags he carried from top of tank to bottom.

 

[garbled]

My ex-gf used to name all the fish. She had a theme of "stodgy sounding british names", but when I had a harem of Anthias, she named them Henry and the wives, which I thought was pretty clever honestly...

I'm the opposite, I never name them. It's not due to lack of attachment, I mean, I had a blue hippo tang that just died a year or so ago at the ripe old tank-age of about 18 years... I miss that fella. I think she named him Fritz, maybe? dunno..

 

[SuncrestReef]

My wife names our fish. The clowns both started out as male, but one transitioned to female. She named them Bruce and Caitlyn.



The two blue chromis are "The Blues Brothers"...Jake & Elwood.



The kole tang is Hawkeye (a surgeon fish...like the MASH character)

The cleaner shrimp is Sebastion.

 

[Tastee]

Benny the blenny

That’s our Lawnmower Blenny’s name too (-:

Nicole and Tom the Occ Clownfish pair (we are Aussies, that may help with the reference, males smaller than the females)

Carol the Yellow Tang (bought with a Christmas voucher)

Annie the Fire Goby
Prince the Orchid Dottyback
Elton the Sixline Wrasse
Jeff (Jefferson) the Starfish
Angus the Coral Banded Shrimp
(theme going on here)

 

[ReeferReefer]

No names here. We'll my roommate named our blue star Leopard wrasse Lisa Frank, but besides that lol.

 

[Victoriajoybrewer]

Our clowns have names. some how at the store my 3 year old got Nemo mixed up with eenie meenie miney mo. she said "look mommy clown fish like meemie mimey mo" so their names are meeme and mimey. Lol we plan to get another fish and call him mo mabey a sand sifter.

 

[BassSoLow]

I name my fish. I just started a new nano reef tank and got a Snowflake Clownfish. Named him Gilmore. Got the name from the Patriots Cornerback who I met a few days before I got the fish, but since it has “Gil” in it, I thought it was pretty fitting name for a fish! Lol.

 

[Nick forlini]

GObi-wan kenobi

 

[Stuartmercer]

I rarely do, the only fish that I have named is a green spotted mandarin dragonet, named Chubchubs. She is fat, that's why I named her that.

 

[Nick forlini]

Gobi-wan kenobi

 

[Stuartmercer]

Gobi-wan kenobi

Oh StarWars the best movie to name animals

 

[Art2249]

I have an inbred maroon clownfish named Quasimoto. Due credit to a post I saw on the internet. my other clownfish is named swimmy. Blue chromis named flash. wrasse named mr. limpet. Blue throat trigger and pink spot goby named Carlos and Fred. originally i had those names reversed but changed them due to personality.
Almost forgot. A trio of anthias named the three little pigs.

 

[steelwrap]

Pablo.....picasso clownfish

 

[guidedbyechoes]

I do because most people don't know which fish I'm talking about if I mention my wrasse. You give them a name and they will come running to tell me about what weird thing (fish name here) did.

 

[guidedbyechoes]

I do because most people don't know which fish I'm talking about if I mention my wrasse. You give them a name and they will come running to tell me about what weird thing (fish name here) did.

 

[mtdaly85]

We name all our fish:

Male clown: Ozzy
Female clown: Lara
Purple Tang: Rarity (4 year old daughter’s choice, as she is obsessed with my little pony)
Kole Tang: Cole
Lamarck Angel: Marky-Mark
Blue Throat Trigger (in QT): Tank

 

[swimer499]

I previously worked in a few major public aquariums... where aza standards was to not name any animal... however some of the employees eventually did secretly... one thing is well known among senior members is once an aquatic animal was named it would most likely die within two weeks... once was told by a coworker that they named said fish than pointed it out and that fish was than eaten by a tankmate right in front of us... after that no fish of mine get names