Meet Nelson and Icarus

[lljdma06]

Bless him! I love it when they do that for the first time. Oberon made his first a few days ago. When I woke up and looked in the tank he saw me and swam up to it then looked at me like he was saying "look new Mummy. look what I've done for you" then swam back up to it! SO cute!!

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Icarus and Nelson are lovely. That pattern on Nelson is just beautiful, and Icarus' color is so awesome! Lucky you!

Wow, with great names like Oberon and Icarus floating around, I feel better about naming Fassolt and Fafner. Get a few wierd looks from the people at the LFS when I refer to them, though. I started a trend with my bettas, all of them are named after male characters from the Wagner Ring cycle. I had Loge, then my two little guys now. I'm on the look out for a Wotan or a Siegfried, but he's gotta be something else, something really special and rare. When you're gonna name a betta after the king of the gods or the ultimate hero, he better be a looker! You can name female bettas from that opera too. They're good, strong names for good, strong fish. Not to insult neons, I love them, but you wouldn't name a neon Wotan.

I will stop rambling now, but your bettas are great looking. Again wonderful find! Another neat post suggestion would be a name database with the name's attributes to help people find the perfect name for their fish. A lot of members here are very creative with names and it could help others who end up nameing bettas like French Kings. You know you're stumped for a good name when you have Louis the XVI. Not to insult Louis, it's a fine name, just trying to illustrate a point. I promise now I will stop rambling.

 

[xxSarahxx]

Wow, with great names like Oberon and Icarus floating around, I feel better about naming Fassolt and Fafner. Get a few wierd looks from the people at the LFS when I refer to them, though. I started a trend with my bettas, all of them are named after male characters from the Wagner Ring cycle. I had Loge, then my two little guys now. I'm on the look out for a Wotan or a Siegfried, but he's gotta be something else, something really special and rare. When you're gonna name a betta after the king of the gods or the ultimate hero, he better be a looker! You can name female bettas from that opera too. They're good, strong names for good, strong fish. Not to insult neons, I love them, but you wouldn't name a neon Wotan.

I have Oberon and Titania! They'll be a spawning pair when Titania is mature enough. I have Tinkerbell too and hopiong to get a Puck and a Peter Pan in the very near future!!!!
Oberon is a looker.....

 

[BrookeLea]

haha you're rambling cracks me up. not all my fish have such fancy names. i tend to base names off of weird things...so i've got some pretty goofy ones, and pretty cheezy ones, too. these are my guys' names:

flare (flare's a LOT)
booger (is a bratty little booger)
scooter (likes to scoot along the bottom of his tank)
wedgie (likes to wedge himself in his rocks)
thai (fisrt betta i got from thailand) RIP little man
phen (named after his breeder)
lady (my first female)
star (because she seems to twinkle)
thai (another guy from thailand after my first passed)
rudolph (he's red, green and white like christmas..)
oliver (royal blue, looks like he's wearing a blue robe like an old rich man named oliver? haha)
baht (after thai currency)
casper (white like a ghost)
fancy (because she's very plane and not so fancy at all)
penny (she's a black copper)
charlotte (named after charlotte johnson in the john anderson song "swingin")
allison (from the elvis costello song)
sonic (looks like a lemon berry slush from sonic)
kink (looked like he had a kink in his tail when i first got him, but he doesn't)
dip (looks like his head was dipped into a can of grey paint)
razz (my fiance's fish that he named himself...dunno why)
nelson (after willie)
icarus (the flying boy)

that's all the ones that i currently have...

six and ten are coming from synirr soon, and they got thier named from how they were numbered when synirr posted their pics (how original, eh?)

 

[lljdma06]

haha you're rambling cracks me up. not all my fish have such fancy names. i tend to base names off of weird things...so i've got some pretty goofy ones, and pretty cheezy ones, too. these are my guys' names:

flare (flare's a LOT)
booger (is a bratty little booger)
scooter (likes to scoot along the bottom of his tank)
wedgie (likes to wedge himself in his rocks)
thai (fisrt betta i got from thailand) RIP little man
phen (named after his breeder)
lady (my first female)
star (because she seems to twinkle)
thai (another guy from thailand after my first passed)
rudolph (he's red, green and white like christmas..)
oliver (royal blue, looks like he's wearing a blue robe like an old rich man named oliver? haha)
baht (after thai currency)
casper (white like a ghost)
fancy (because she's very plane and not so fancy at all)
penny (she's a black copper)
charlotte (named after charlotte johnson in the john anderson song "swingin")
allison (from the elvis costello song)
sonic (looks like a lemon berry slush from sonic)
kink (looked like he had a kink in his tail when i first got him, but he doesn't)
dip (looks like his head was dipped into a can of grey paint)
razz (my fiance's fish that he named himself...dunno why)
nelson (after willie)
icarus (the flying boy)

that's all the ones that i currently have...

six and ten are coming from synirr soon, and they got thier named from how they were numbered when synirr posted their pics (how original, eh?)

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That's a lot of fish! I can't wait to graduate, then I can move back to Miami and become a total fish junky. It'll be glorious! An opera-singing fish junky!

 

[BrookeLea]

haha yeah, that's a good number of em. that's 25 listed there, but i've got up to almost 30 in the works. then i'll have my first spawn mid-september

i've still got plenty of room and i can care for them, so it's not out of hand yet

 

[BrookeLea]

oooh sarah! oberon is GORGEOUS!

 

[xxSarahxx]

Thank you.... Actually thank clover! I got him from her! He is absolutely stunning!!
Unfortunately he has nibbled at his caudal fin with the stress of posting and then a new tank and a new home but he is still a beauty as are Tinkerbell and Titania. My babies!!! I can't get decent pictures of them at the moment but will try again soon!
I'll be breeding from them when they are all big enough so UK members.... keep an eye out!!
http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=103552&hl= - this contains pictures of the three of them so have a look!!