Do you name your fish?
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As you can tell by this thread - many fellow reefers name there fish.
...I, on the other hand, am not a namer. ;Sorry
ScottR
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Same here. I usually use size and fish type to name my fish.
Sailingeric
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Most of mine are names along the lines of what they are, Tangy, Puffy but my clowns are Ru and Paul since they can change there sexes 
Indytraveler83
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That’s my problem. Every. Single. Named. Fish. Dies!!
wrasse man
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One of my pincushion urchins is named Fred Sanford because he is always carrying around spines full of junk. The other one is J-lo for all the junk on its trunk.
jd371
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I don't name my fish but I made and exception with latest one. Aptasia is getting out of control so my last ditch effort was to get a Matted Filefish. He's been in the tank for over a week now and swims right by the aptasia and isn't interested at all. Pecked at an Acan which I moved to another tank but other than that hasn't bothered any other corals so he'll stay and Deadbeat will be his name.
ZsWithTheFishes
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A few in my house are named: mean fishy (jaguar cichlid); heffawump & woozle (puffers); wobsta (crayfish); Sun ce, Sun Quan , & sun jian (various tangs); and Shhit Eater (green spotted scat).
I only named one of those fish.
I only named one of those fish.
scobeyra
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My wife likes to name the ones with the most personality. Not all get names but we've had George Clowny (clownfish), Buster (Chromis) Mr grumpy face (Starry Blenny) and John Lemon (yellow watchman goby)
W1ngz
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I don't name my fish, however I set up an Evo in my office with a pair of clowns, and all the women were aghast that they don't have names. To appease the masses they ended up being called Han and Leia.
Daniel@R2R
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My clowns both have names and my blue tang. My kids named them, and the names stuck.
Kodock
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My fish names are just “The”, maybe a description, followed by the type of fish. The clown, The tang, The Fancy (Clown).
However, I do have names for names for most individuals in the CuC. For reference..
Mexican turbo snail #1: “Jerk” (always knocking frags over)
Mexican turbo snail #2: “Psycho”, “Music Man”, “Dangles” (always trying to commit suicide by the fans or make his way into the overflow, dangles awkwardly against the powerhead while his shell taps against the glass in an annoying melodious fashion)
Bristle star: Mr. Anderson (matrix reference: Always, I repeat always see him connected to 2 things at once, never one)
The rest are general reference terms when I see them. Those names would likely violate R2R’s language policy.
However, I do have names for names for most individuals in the CuC. For reference..
Mexican turbo snail #1: “Jerk” (always knocking frags over)
Mexican turbo snail #2: “Psycho”, “Music Man”, “Dangles” (always trying to commit suicide by the fans or make his way into the overflow, dangles awkwardly against the powerhead while his shell taps against the glass in an annoying melodious fashion)
Bristle star: Mr. Anderson (matrix reference: Always, I repeat always see him connected to 2 things at once, never one)
The rest are general reference terms when I see them. Those names would likely violate R2R’s language policy.
