why I don't like to name my fish

[Magnum Man]

my Giant Oto, Sid died today... no good reason... maybe of old age??? when he was bought, he was already larger, than they are supposed to get, so I assume he was an adult... I'm disappointed , but I get it, "circle of life" he was special, or I wouldn't have named him... the other giants are fine... the one I lost in shipping this week looked similar to the other 2, so I'm sure Sid was a different species... now forever unknown

 

[CassCats]

Sorry for your loss named or not, I still feel bummed if I lose fish too. And i think you're sentimental like I am, I can see you still being bummed about it and that's totally okay.

 

[lottabubbles]

you can really get attached to your fish when you've had them for a long time and get down in the dumps when the expire. I've seen fish that hang out together do the same when their buddy dies. seen it with both gold fish and tropical.

 

[fishorama]

We tend to only name fish that are notably different from others of their species or tankmates. There may be a "chubby girl", "big loach" or "pretty boy" & we're sad if they should die. We did used to name some like Punk & Mel corys (rightly punctatus & melanistius, only 1 of each in our first tank). Mako (Jaws of Death), a rainbow shark that body slammed corys into the substrate.

Sid was clearly different & I'm sorry he died.

 

[lottabubbles]

We tend to only name fish that are notably different from others of their species or tankmates

I've only named one and you're right about being different looking
when my big pleco catfish is peeking out of a cubby hole it looks like you are viewing the front end of the SR-71 Blackbird. so I named it blackbird.

 

[Back in the fold]

I only name male Betta’s .

 

[GaryE]

I would only name a fish I disliked, as all named fish immediately die. That's magic thinking, I know, but if I were a sociopath, I could name all my fish and prove it.

 

[fishorama]

lottabubbles, I'm going to tell my husband about "blackbird" the pleco. I'm sure he'll love the name! He has a SR71 T-shirt from our Seattle trip to Boeing Air Museum & a cousin sent him a patch from her trip there too.

 

[lottabubbles]

He has a SR71 T-shirt from our Seattle trip to Boeing Air Museum & a cousin sent him a patch from her trip there too.

lucky you, I've always wanted to see a blackbird up close. back a while the SR-71 was supposed to do a fly by during Thunder Over Louisville and our Harley hog group got the third floor of a tavern on the Ohio river. one of the guys was an air craft controller and he had the schedule of all the jets and prop planes. at the last minute the blackbird was called to a hot spot somewhere in the world so it was a bust for us.

 

[gwand]

I would only name a fish I disliked, as all named fish immediately die. That's magic thinking, I know, but if I were a sociopath, I could name all my fish and prove it.

If you, Cass, and Magnum were to name all your fish you would need the memory capacity of an Einstein.

 

[MaloK]

I have a friend like that, he never would give a name to any pets he had...

40 years later, he's still calling the cats "Cat", the dogs "Dog".