Do you name your fish?
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Ditto to those that said they only name some. I couldn't possibly tell my corys or tetras apart (though when I first got my black phantoms I would mess with my friends by telling them I could tell each one apart), but my angelfish have names and so does my blue ram and checkerboard.
Just realized the perfect names for my fish. I have 4 white skirt tetras and all of them have been artificially colored
But some good can come of this bad. They happen to be colored on their heads (almost like headbands) and they have the colors of the ninja turtles sooo Donatello, Michael Angelo, Raphael, Leonardo are my tetras now and My rainbow shark will be shredder.
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That is awsome pulling out the old school TMNT. :headbang2:
When I was a kid there were theese pink and baby blue tetras and after like 6-8 months there color always wore out and I never knew why. after some time I found out y and I think its not only do I think its wrong to "paint" a fish but its a jip. Ya buy a nice colorfull fish and then its nothing like you baught after a half year or so. At least the ones I got never lasted.
no. just some of my snails. and that is even rare and based on color (ms.magenta, mr.purple, etc)
I name some of my fish, depending on if they are distinguishable or not. I wouldn't say I'm anthropomorphizing though, to respond to beasts comment.. just rather I think it makes my referents easier to remember 
And I have no problem with anthropomorphizing so long as we recognize it as such (she says in defense of naming her house plants... ahem).
I currently have an angelfish named Xerces (interestingly after the c++ library I had to "battle" as a research assistant.. no relation to the fish, I just liked the name). I also have a name for 4 of my 8 phantoms, as they were the first in my tank, and were very distinctive looking at the time:
-Richard (he was the biggest, hence "King Richard")
-Winky (short for the more formal "Winkin", of course -- we noticed once we got her home that she had only one eye)
-Blinkin
-Nod (okay, I can't tell these two apart in the slightest, but the names seemed necessary at the time
)
I have a panda cory named Bandit-- he's my lone survivor from a bunch I had awhile back (my lfs's never seem to stock these around here.. very weird).
I used to have a pleco named Mr. Pleco-pants (as you can plainly see.. no trait-capturing here! Haha!).
I named my apple snail Houdini after a disappearing act that resulted in me finding the poor traumatized creature UNDER my tank stand (kudos to my significant other who even suggested I look under there...).
I have a "jumbo" shrimp that I nicknamed "Prawn" (if you met him, you'd agree, trust me).
Finally I have a couple SAEs that I named Socks... because they look like argyle socks to me, and socks always come in pairs!
Yeah, I know, I'm a little nuts... but hey, so long as I'm okay with it.... :nilly:
And I have no problem with anthropomorphizing so long as we recognize it as such (she says in defense of naming her house plants... ahem).I currently have an angelfish named Xerces (interestingly after the c++ library I had to "battle" as a research assistant.. no relation to the fish, I just liked the name). I also have a name for 4 of my 8 phantoms, as they were the first in my tank, and were very distinctive looking at the time:
-Richard (he was the biggest, hence "King Richard")
-Winky (short for the more formal "Winkin", of course -- we noticed once we got her home that she had only one eye)
-Blinkin
-Nod (okay, I can't tell these two apart in the slightest, but the names seemed necessary at the time
)I have a panda cory named Bandit-- he's my lone survivor from a bunch I had awhile back (my lfs's never seem to stock these around here.. very weird).
I used to have a pleco named Mr. Pleco-pants (as you can plainly see.. no trait-capturing here! Haha!).
I named my apple snail Houdini after a disappearing act that resulted in me finding the poor traumatized creature UNDER my tank stand (kudos to my significant other who even suggested I look under there...).
I have a "jumbo" shrimp that I nicknamed "Prawn" (if you met him, you'd agree, trust me).
Finally I have a couple SAEs that I named Socks... because they look like argyle socks to me, and socks always come in pairs!
Yeah, I know, I'm a little nuts... but hey, so long as I'm okay with it.... :nilly:
