What’s the dumbest fish name?

[GSPClown94]

More like an intentional mistranslation of the scientific name

 

[Lineatus]

Out of context how? It's about dumb fish names... the common names of fish, not about when people name their fish "Swimmy McSwimFace".

Out of context (ie the blenny mows algae) naming a fish after a lawnmower is funny

 

[Spare time]

I have a fish named Juanita Sanchez the Tres for absolutely no reason.

 

[SeeSnek]

More like an intentional mistranslation of the scientific name

The Fish With the Fishy Name

Great fish do not swim in shallow waters-Matshona Dhliwayo

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[Fish Styx]

Ay I present to you Dumb Dumb, the aiptasia "eating" filefish.

"Dum-Dum"***

 

[Fish Styx]

Mine is named 'Filet.' It was meant as a not so subtle warning that if she moved on from eating Duncanopsammia to Goniopora or Euphyllia, she would end up battered and fried. So far she seems to understand, although I think she is starting to nip zoas a little now.

This one decided that snails were tasty, and so she was banished from my tank. Mitch saved her from a life in the sump.

 

[Miami Reef]

Ay I present to you Dumb Dumb, the aiptasia "eating" filefish.

I wish I could have a dumb dumb of my own, but I’m sure the closest thing it will eat to aiptasia in my tank is the zooxanthella from my corals.

 

[Fish Styx]

Ohhhh, I have lots of stupid names:

CBB = Butter
Convict Tang = Pootie Tang
Lavender Tang = Poon Tang
White Tailed Bristletooth = Wu Tang
Chocolate Tang = Lady Chanel
Yellow Tang = Demon
Gem Tang= Freckles
Orange Striated (w/ 1 eye) = Blinky
Pair of Sebae Clowns: Big Momma / Leroy Jenkins
Pair of Engineering Gobies = Collectively, Hamas (because of the tunnels)
Ornate Leopard = The Wrassetafarian
Lyretail Anthias (Male) = Iceberg Slim
Lyretail Anthias (Females) = ^ his <ahem>... "gardening tools"

 

[Sophie"s mom]

What fish name makes you think, “Why in the world did they name it that?!”

Hands down the foxface rabbitfish!! what the heck!

 

[Miami Reef]

Hands down the foxface rabbitfish!! what the heck!

Further elaborating what @Slocke said:


Fox:

Badger

Foxface rabbit fish:

Naming it foxface is criminal.

 

[AydenLincoln]

“Purple” tang will forever upset me.

That’s blue god dang it

Yes this! 100%!!^

 

[Mschmidt]

"Dum-Dum"***

I see.

I wish I could have a dumb dumb of my own, but I’m sure the closest thing it will eat to aiptasia in my tank is the zooxanthella from my corals.

Nah. Doesn't touch this either. Then again I don't think I have any meat coral like you.... There may be a lobo in the tank, idk.

 

[Sassafras]

These are rather unusual:

Bony-Eared Assfish (Acanthonus armatus) deepwater fish
Blue B*****d (Plectorhinchus caeruleonothus) a sweetlips species
Sarcastic Fringehead (Neoclinus blanchardi)
Humuhumunukunukuapua’a (Rhinecanthus rectangulus) Hawaiian triggerfish
Old Wife (Enoplosus armatus), I think there are Alewives also, a herring-looking fish

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Further elaborating what @Slocke said:


Fox:

Badger

Foxface rabbit fish:

Naming it foxface is criminal.

Petition to rename the fish the badger fish

 

[SeeSnek]

Petition to rename the fish the badger fish

The badger foxface rabbitfish?

 

[Reefering1]

Badgerface foxrabbit fish

 

[phillyb614]

Not a fish, but Sexy Shrimp? Really?

 

[danimal1211]

I always thought Mullet was a ridiculous name for a fish and a hairstyle.

 

[SteveMM62Reef]

Clown Fish.

Yes, it should be Cusfifh, “Cute Small Fish From Hell.”

 

[Slocke]

What fish name makes you think, “Why in the world did they name it that?!”

This is a scientific name. Scientists called this fish “boops” of the genus “Boops”, Boops boops

Boops boops - Wikipedia

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