Do you name your fish?

revhtree · Mar 16, 2009

Do you name your fish?

If so list the names so we can laugh! HAHA!

SaraB · Mar 16, 2009

Some of mine have names ...

Naso = Big Boy and he came named from another family with kids

Pipefish = Stick and my brother named him

Female Bellus = Yamaha and my hubby named her that as she has Yamaha colors.

Labouti Wrasse - Bob as he bobs his head out of the water looking for food

Ian · Mar 16, 2009

Lemon peel mimic tang= lemon merange

Gem Tang= Checkers

Names compliments of my Fiance...

MikeB · Mar 16, 2009

Power Blue Tank: Einstien
Skunk Shrimp: Gary - Becuase my neighbor Gary bought him for our tank.

That the only things that have names as of now in our tank

We did have a Pink/Blue Goby named Sanderson becuase he was always building mounds in the tank-playing in the sand

I-K@ndY · Mar 16, 2009

bigian said:
Lemon peel mimic tang= lemon merange

Gem Tang= Checkers

Names compliments of my Fiance...

Gem tang = BalleI2 :tongue:

reef-lover · Mar 16, 2009

My purple lobster is named Pinchy.

I-K@ndY · Mar 16, 2009

My Blotchy = Ugly ( as per my daughter )

Elan · Mar 16, 2009

When i dont name them, they die.
El Groupito - school of green chromis
Fuego - Flameangel
Mucho and Macho - pair of true percs

JuniorMC8704 · Mar 16, 2009

Yellow Coris Wrasse = Haus Diesel, he eats so much, he looks like a wine barrel.

After eating, he litterly just goes and lays down, like madden after thanksgiving dinner.

copester · Mar 16, 2009

NO, everytime I do they die. If I don't they live long and healthy lives. lol

ReefRunner · Mar 16, 2009

We name just about all of ours. I won't list them all but we have Tex, our Lubbock's wrasse; Zippo, our clown goby who "zips" around the tank; Elvis, our blue flasher wrasse; Digger, our 15" long engineer goby who spends his day digging through the sand; Sushi, our hi fin goby and Adam and Eve, our mated pair of naked clowns

Robin

rarelyseriousb · Mar 16, 2009

no I was taught long ago that it is bad luck.:crossedlips:

H@rry · Mar 16, 2009

I have always thought that naming the fish was bad luck. My 4 year old grandson named a goby Fred. I don't know where that came from but every time he was here he would run to that tank and look for Fred. Unfortunately, Fred choked on a chicken bone and is now in the big reef in the sky.

We have starfish that are named Forrest Gump, Big Red, Bot, etc. I don't know what it is about starfish but we've got every starfish that we ever got with the exception of a couple of sand sifting stars.

gflat65 · Mar 16, 2009

Not many of them, but have had a Shakes the Clown, WSM female (had her for 12 years-lost her in the move...), a Jaws (female Cinnamon clown), PT (Petie-purple tang), YT (Whitey-Yellow Tang), Sonny and Cher (pair of percula's), and proably a few others here and there.

FateX8 · Mar 16, 2009

i never named mine because they already have names, first and last
that and im not creative enough to make up names

ChristinaRk · Mar 16, 2009

Naming Fish? How about EVERYTHING!

Bad luck or not, almost everything has a name in my tank.

Krusty and Bob: Paired Tomato Clowns
Speedy: Turbo Snail
Twinkle: White Sand Star
Henry: 4 Stripped Damsel (gone back to the LFS because he was too agressive, but we visit him on the weekend to say Hi)
Darth Maul: Scarlett Hermit Crab that (so far) has a black and red shell.
Harry: Sand Anemone

And that's my Tank Clan!

ecotoxlady · Mar 16, 2009

I also have found that when I do not name a fish, it is bad luck. I have a pair of true percs who seem destined to never truly work out so I named him Samson and her Delilah. I also have a six line wrasse that thinks it runs the whole tank so I named it Saul, which I felt appropriate because this fish seems to believe he is entitled to rule the tank though he will not always.

Saltysteele · Mar 16, 2009

i don't (except for one), but my daughter does.

i call my flame angel firefly, as he's always twitting here and there like a firely, plus he's a flame angel.

my b&w clowns are "black and white fishies"
blenny_ = Benny
orange diamond spot goby = spot
bangaii cards = black and white fishes (yes, also)
my new harlequin shrimp = Shrimpie-Shrimpie
flame angel = orange and black fishie

(hey, she's about to turn 4, she's allowed

)

mltascp · Mar 16, 2009

sailfin tang Mike after mike the tiger
scopas tang Mr Tang
orange and white osc pair Burt and Liz
We had a blenny named bubba

kgehrke · Mar 16, 2009

I like to name mine... Almost for humorous value.

My clown is named Charles.
Powder blue is named Big Blue.
Cleaner shrimp is named Pierre.

I like to introduce the cleaner shrimp in a french voice too.