Do you give your fish names?

[domino1804]

Hi there
I know when people get goldfish they give them names but does anyone name there tropical fish?
Its just a query I had.Something I was thinking about while our electricity was off for a few hours
thanks alot

 

[fishwatcher]

I have named my 2 male bettas, but that is it. So far, my tank is fairly new, so I've lost a few. I figure I'll name them once I can keep them alive a while.

 

[GSD]

not all of them..just the ones i can tell apart

 

[BettaMomma]

Yep. I name every single one of them - usually before they got into their tanks.
I keep bettas so it's easy to tell them apart - lol

But I wouldn't have a fish that didn't have a name, no matter what kind it was.
I guess if I had a tank full of fish that looked all the same, then every one of them in the tank would have the same name - so I'd have a tank full of Larrys, for example.

 

[FishEnthusiast]

I have named my bettas, my angels and my one flame nosed tetra that has no eyes, the rest do not have names because they are too hard to tell apart!

 

[granma]

hi ive only named mu plecs,one is Larry and the other is Lenny

 

[SirMinion]

This subject pops up once a month, regular as clockwork!

Most of our fish's names are based on puns or tenuous links to their species name or appearance.

Examples:

• Martha (Fahaka Pufferfish- I'm not explaining this pun!)
• Stewart (Common pleco- because he's Martha's tankmate)
• Cookie (Our rescue fahaka puffer - he's one tough cookie)
• Broccoli (Huge Starlight Bristlenose - because his bristles look like broccoli and when we bought him we took him home in a polybox that had previously contained broccoli
• Julian (Ornate Bichir- Named after the Doctor On Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
• Sheila (Purple Spotted Gudgeon- because she's Australian)
• Achillies (Fire eel - a pun on "Achillies Heel")
• Snicket (Lemon Spotted green Plec - Named after Lemony Snicket, the author of the series of unfortunate events books.)
• Smaug (Dragon Puffer- Smaug is a Dragon from Tolkien's The Hobbit)
• Smidge (Dragon Puffer- because he's a smidgen bigger than Smaug)
  
• Archie (Target Puffer- Archie is a pun on 'archery'..which has targets)
• Jif (Royal Panaque- I think 'panaque' sounds a little like 'pan cake' and In Britain, pancakes are most often serves with sugar & lemon juice, The leading brand of lemon juice is 'Jif' - I told you some of them are tenuous!)
• Roy (Chubby Plec - named after Roy Chubby Brown, a non-funny British Comedian)
• Josie (Sultan Pleco- his scientific name is L. joselimie
• Sherman & Panzer (Armoured shrimps- They look like little tanks)
• Twiggy (farowella catfish- looks like a twig)

...and so on...

 

[Annastasia]

I always name all my Bettas. And then I name the other fish I can tell apart, such as the Angelfish, Gouramis, Platies, Guppies, Cories...etc.

 

[debiasir]

i do sometimes

my dwarf puffer is called puff
my group of neons is called the mob
my 3 guppies i havent names
my 2 fancy tailed goldies are del and rodney
my 11 WCMM i havent named
my 2 apple snails i have names one speedy and the other one lazy
my BN plec is called sucker

 

[Robbo851]

i dont name my tetras or mollies but my pleco is called marty my loach is called george after sharky and george but sharky died. and my giant african filter shrimp is called armidillo because of its plated shell on his back but soft belly like an armidillo (sometimes i call him arnie for short)

 

[Chaz]

Yep but when you have 20 neons it is quite hard

 

[maxpayne_lhp]

I named my black ghost knife "the Prince of the Darkness'' He died on Apr 20th 2005

 

[Mariah]

The names of my fish are:

Hazeling - male betta
Calico - male betta
Tuggs - male betta
Lucky - male betta
Pinky - angel
Pretty - angel
Mickey -platy
Mouse - platy
Orange Peacove - platy
Gus - guppy
Pistol - guppy
Lilac - guppy
Nemo - molly
Taylor - molly
Misfit - guppy fry

I have other fish in my other tanks who dont have names. These are the main tanks

 

[ravekiss]

I named my betta boys: Midnite, Rufus, Rusty, Starbrite, Sunshine & Flash. I name them according to their appearance/ personality.

 

[Bloo]

Absolutely!

All mine are called..............FISH !


No, I have to teeny tiny freshwater flounders and I've called them Sixpence and Tuppence. Apart from that the others all share a communal name