Do you name your fish?

[bythesea]

So come on, be honest, how sad are you? ;)

[dgoulston]

yep, just check me sig

[bythesea]

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[SmokinReefer]

My two yr old has called our fire fish 'Name'. :confused:

[Jonbee56]

The mrs calls the pair of clowns 'Big' and 'her indoors'. & The yellow Tang 'greedy pig'
:laugh::laugh:

[blub]

lol. I reacon that things really do know what their names mean. Like, for instance, we named our car Litvinyenko (or however you spell that ??) and then he died... A week later, someone crashed into us and wrote of the car :rolleyes:. and nemo, (yes, my clownfish :o) went and jumped down the back of the tank as a bid for freedom.
Its more my brother who names the things, but I guess it gives them character and makes you pay more attention to them as living things.

blub

[Norvern Rob]

My Girlfriend named our Copperband Tuppence. :o

[goggles]

all my fish have names even some of the corals :D

[jobsta]

ive got a lemonpeel angel what my twin boys decided to call Sausage ?
I dont know why

[Nikolai]

Dont see the point - everyone who comes to my house calls them different things anyway

[willow75]

my box fish is called cuba godding jr the damsels are called blue and blue and we have an itsy bitsy nemo (how original) we do have a 4 yr old

[powder]

o yes :lol:
pete the puffer
gordon the gobie
snot the goniopora
thing the toadstool
to name but a few!

[okinawae]

When I was a kid and my dad kept trops I named the pleco Angela (mum had a friend called Angela with huge lips). I didn't name the others....too many.

I haven't got any fish yet:( but I probably wont name them when I do. It's not like they'd come flipping over all happy to see me if I called them:D

[tigerryes]

well we have:
Two clowns-Coral and Marlin
algae blenny-ugly head
manderin-tiny
two cleaner shrimp-jaque(sp from nemo) and jill
vampire tang-buffy
5 green chromis-dosy, dee, beaky, mick and titch
there are a couple of things without names at the mo as i couldn't think of anything funny to call them

[Boo]

The mrs names mine -

Aglae Blenny big belly
Nemo and baby nemo
Claude and pierre the cleaner shrimps
Racheal the Regal tang ( my frind racheal bought it)
Olly the flame angel (olly bought it)

[babyreefer]

no....i learnt that lesson when i kept freshwater fish!!!
i cried everytime one died and it made it so much worse to humanise them with a name, so i figure if they have no name and die, i will just get another he same and pretend its the same one so i don't feel bad....!

[zoe4eva]

i voted yes,
my clarkiis, are Lois and Clark (not original but mine:laugh:)
my harlequins, are harley and david!
my mantis shrimp.....kitty crab! my 2 year old named it!
and my percs are nemo and nemette! yeh i no dont say it!

[Vicky_99]

I voted yes, but they aren't all named.

The coral beauty is called Django (after Django the B*stard) - because he is one at feeding times!

Our first urchin is called Jim - the blue tuxedo urchin we bought later is called Blue Jim (hence now all urchins are known as Jims in our house!).

Our pink spot blennie is called Victor (after Victor Meldrew) because he has a grumpy face and the red scooter blennie is called Spot - no reason for that one.

The rest are just "clown dudes" or "Firefish dudes" or "snail dudes"!

Vicky

[charjoe]

So come on, be honest, how sad are you? ;)

at my signature!! Yeah we're sad in our household...... :laugh:

[hihat]

We've named a few:rolleyes::

Spot & Stripe the Bangi Cardinals
Mr Pointy the Arrow Head crab
Manie and Rowena the Mandarins (from Black Books)

[andthe_brain]

yep named ours...
nemo and nemette-2 clowns
bubbles-yellow tang
peach-red starfish
noris-flame hawk fish (nosy ******)
fluffy-spike sea urchin
ed-copperband
dory-regal tang
hermie and the homies-6 hermits
jaque-cleaner shrimp
reg and ron-blood shrimps
carry, barry, larry, harry, todd-5 chromis
benny-blenny
sid,sonny,bill,bob,dave-5 turbo snails

[andthe_brain]

jinx zoe4eva maybe out percs are related!

[Stephen G]

i dont but my girlfriend named my fresh water fish!!my poor pleco had the wonderful name of dumb dumb

[gez78]

my kids name them but i dont see the point there not like a cat or a dog and going to you when you call there name

[zoe4eva]

jinx zoe4eva maybe out percs are related!

well mine are tank bread so you never know!!! if they al come from norfolk its a definite! they're all inbread:laugh: (joke to all the norfolk people sorry:D)

[pinkpony]

my seahorse tank not set up yet but when i had my FW 7x2x2 i had 25 large clown loach and each and every one had a name, yes im sad i know :D

[shardy]

I used to have fish named after golfers:

Yellow tang - Sandy (Lyle)
Clown fish - Tiger (woods)
Neon Goby - Wee (Michelle)

Now we only have Ernie (Els) the blue damsel.

Sad isn't it..

[shardy]

Forgot to mention, I dont even like golf!

[jackthelad]

Of course my fish have names (and some of the corals too :D).

I've got Colin the clown fish, Ruby the red-tail fire fish, Tarquin the Bangaii Cardinal (thinks he's very posh.!), Terry the yellow tang, George and Georgina the cleaner shrimps, Freddie the fire shrimp and Dick & Dom the two red-legged hermits. Annie the pink BTA, Fingers the Devil Finger coral and Willie (as in Willie Thorn..!) the Acropora.

Also got a new Coral Beauty which we haven't decided on a name yet. She (I think it's a she) is currently going by "Beauty" (not very original I know) but I seriously considering Sybil....although any suggestions would be welcomed.

You've gotta love'em just a little bit else there ain't no point keepin' them..:thumbsup:

[robbie s]

I have
Nemo1 and nemo 2
Pete the pistol shrimp and gordon the goby :wub:

[coventrypaul]

yes,
benny - the flymo blenny
hughie,lewie,dewie - 3 green chromis
willy - the bannana wrasse
terry - the turbo snail
sidney - cleaner shrimp


all named by my mrs....

[esmed]

Some of ours have names but they are usually just stupid ones or my nephew named them!! Names as follows:

Scoop - Yellow Tang, named by nephew after a bob the builder character
Yoshi - Yasha goby
Bassey - Black Cap gramma
Wrassey - Red Head fairy wrasse
Big Bob - A large red leg hermit
Pinchy - Pistol shrimp that used to live with Yoshi but they split up.

We also have a pair of clown fish but they don't have names and neither to our pair of anthias.

[catpicklesdog]

Unfortunately I can't blame anyone else but me for naming my fish:o

Yellow tang - honey
Algae Blenny - Grumpy
Cleaner Wrasse - Badger
Six-spot sleeper goby - Gordon
Spotted Mandarin - Paisley II
Lamarcks Angel - Angel
YS Maroon Clown - Luma
2 Banggais - Mr & Mrs!
15 Chromis - 1,2,3,4 etc

Pistol Shrimp - Hopkirk
Randalls Shrimp Goby - Randall
Baby Banggai - Titch

My friends and family only know the fish by their "pet" names they can't remember species names!

[wolfman]

i had a blenny called blenny hill!

[Dannyboy330]

Me and girlfriend have a flame hawkfish called 'Geoffrey', but it's probably a girl!:confused:

[aydennlamb]

yeh, i name all my fish and the crusty's too!! They all have their own little characters too (just like other pets)
Here's my lot so far:
Bertie - Humbug Damsel (as Berty Bassetts make humbugs)
Blue - Korean angel (coz he's blue)
Omen - Clownfish (it's 'nemo' spelt backwards)
Lemon - Clownfish (if you take the L out and rearrange wot left it spells nemo)
Slugworth aka Slugger - Sea Hare (obviously coz he's a slug type creature)
Spike - Sea Urchin (coz he black and spikey)
NooNoo - Cleaner wrasse (noonoo on teletubbies was a vacumn CLEANER)
not got a name for our blue cheek goby yet or for the hundreds of hermits or the 2 shrimps!!
Got 3 others which are going back to shop this weekend (cowfish called Tweety coz he's yellow and cute, chocolate tang called chip as in choc chip and a clown/formosa wrasse called clive - dont ask my partner chose it!!)

So i can officially say im a complete saddo!! Who cares!

[torfrida]

Do occasionally name fish - like Wifebeater the dwarf gourami (whoever said they were nice natured fish?) I keep threatening to put him in the tank with Linda, Violet, Maxine, Adrian and Vivian - my piranha, who are all named after the most vicious, murderous individuals I have met (and they live up to their names). But the clowns are Female clown and Male clown and the dwarf angel is... Angel...

Generally, can't see the point - they don't exactly come to call like a dog!

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RIP Violet, eaten by her mates after a little dominance issue with Linda!

[Spanner]

Names are for tombstones baby. :)

Which incidentally, most of mine ended up under thanks to a certain air freshener.

[picklednut]

I've named some of my fish but others I give them nicknames eg my regal tang is called "Chuck" but my foxface is "the hide and seek champion of the tank"!

[monkeydory]

lol wot a laugh!
ours are:
mr n mrs nemo for the ocellaris clowns
dory the regal tang (see a pattern? hehe)
blade the velvet damsel
tequila n little tequila the talboti damsels (after the sunrise cocktail due to their colourings)
mr muscle the cleaner fish
pinky the skunk clown
bugman the humbug damsel
puffy the valentini puffer
nutbag the chromis cos hes mentally retarded poor thing
no name yet for the new diamond goby!
and all the hermits r crabbies lol

[ringo]

Nah, Well actually my Wife names them all. including my Koi Carp, particularly like Shaggy the Chagoi

[chrisreefs]

Well don’t know about the fish but the wife crack me up with her reef aquarium terminology the other day in our LFS, she told the guy he meaning myself has done a great job with the Flags and Plants in the tank, he looked at me and couldn’t help himself from lol, women !

[bigbluerr]

Oh yes all the fish have names. Especially when the young ones come to visit. The usual recital of the cast of Nemo, but I suppose it does help educate them and they recognise the characters from the movie.

[Ven]

my girlfriend named my goby gobs**te gotta love her:wub:

other name go such as
clowns :nome and dude
chromis: salt n pepper
cleaner shrimp: Pierre
gobies: as above and sand eater
snails: turbo,5th gear and turbia(appartently its a female cuz its got a pink shell)
fuji damsels: cloud and sky

[sam&kev]

Yea sam has named our two clowns: Normal and nemo (normal is the girl)
cleaner shrimp: franc (said with a french accent)
the others dont have names yet and the coral is safe but i dont think for long when she reads the thread. i think its cute but she hates that!!!

[Saltyfingers]

I don't but the missus does.....fortunately NOT Nemo or Dory!!!! That would incur a bottie slapping penalty!

[KROS]

Maroon clown - Billy .... first in the tank so "billy no mates"
Chalk Goby - Doug ... because he dug his home under a rock
Chromis - The Beastie Boys Featuring Mos Def (mos def, Adrock, Mike D, MCA, Mixmaster mike)
Mithrax crab - Clipper
New Black and white clowns - Krusty and Sideshow Bob
New yellow clown goby - Maizy, because it looks like a corn kernel, and maize is like corn

need a name for a magenta dottyback though

Oh and a huge Ghost carp in the pond called Steve

[eddie101]

Yes but only a bit,

Like my clownfish are both called clown
royal grammer - purple and yellow
cleaner wrasse - wrasse
tuxedo urchin - archie
and my longnose hawkfish is called crabstick,

everything else just tends to get a mr infront of its name, like mr crab, mr snail, mr shrimp etc, dunno why really.

[Sam.]

my hermit crab in the pic above is called murphy and my starfish is called melive my 2 blue damsels are called the blues brothers but i cant think of 2 names for my 2 tomato clowns :(

[yamskichick]

I don't have any marine fish to name as yet (they will be though :P) The vast majority of my FW fish are tho......

The Dude - Plec
Thor - Betta (he thinks he's tough! :P)
Pat (Butcher) - Red Eye Puffer (I had Peggy [Mitchell] too but Pat killed her! :( )
Axl and Rose - pair of Paradise fish
Jeremy - Zebra Loach (after Jeremy Kyle - they're both always in everyone elses business!)
Bruce and Jackie (Lee and Chan :D ) - CHinese algae eaters
Womble - Geto Loach (he looks like a womble front on!)
Bruce, Bruce, Bruce and Bruce - Rock Shrimp (I love their feather dusters!)
Daisy, Mike and Brian - Angel Fish (Twist died..... :( )
Sid and Nancy - Kribensis Cichlids

lol.......the tetras just end up collectively known as the usual suspects!

[MAD MECHANIC REEFER]

Yep , The GF calls -
Twinspot Hogfish - "clementine"
Chalk Bass - "Violet"
Yellow Banded Maroon Clown - "Ruby"
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Still , It involves the other half in our little marine world , i suppose ....:thumbsup:

[adam.crouch]

my black and white clownfish is called guiness. was named by my g/f's sister

[janeb]

hi yes i have bob (yellow clown gobie) flit (redheaded goby) and i sadly lost fang to the carpet! my beloved yasha goby oh i also have 3 goldfish called ish ish and ishy (my 3 yr olds) and two turtles called mike and angelo

[nicolacolins]

I think it shows imagination and fun to name pets and fish are the same, i can see why some people wouldnt in larger set up as there are just too many to count let alone name!

I name all sorts of pets and people i know and meet giving them all funny names and find it a ice breaker and guess its just a friendly way to be. I dont like to be rude just a bit cheeky and most find its just my way of showing affection and the nickname sticks !

Love Guinness the clown Adam! Actaully quite like the drink too! :D
:thumbsup:

[Fish Luke]

Well I only keep tropicals at the moment, so it's hard to distinguish from most of them, and they don't have huge characters.

No doubt my marines will find names when I get them.

[scudmissile]

algae blenny- Blenny henry!!