Do You Name Your Fish?
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I've named one of my fishes, and that was my very first first fish, a male betta (probably the reason why I never bought any tankbusters, becuase I was always doing researh to make sure nobody was going to nip his fins).
I do. I've always thought it's a good habbit to get into when you name your fish because you grow more attached to them and you treat them more as pets not like fish. Then you ownt do stupid stuff like "I'm going to buy a bala shark and put it in my 10 gallon. Then when it gets big I'm going tothrow it in lake Michigan." You won't do crap like that.
I've named mine. Nothing too hard. I say words and the next thing that comes to mind is the next fish's name. Connor, Default, Trigger, Happy, Azrael, Choice Select.... Delta doesn't count since I had him first and I'm not very creative with Betta names. 
I do agree though. If you name a fish, you have a tendency to actually care about it. Surprise surprise.
I do agree though. If you name a fish, you have a tendency to actually care about it. Surprise surprise.
The only one's I have named so far are my betta's. I LOVE the movie " Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" so I named my white one Roger, but sadly he passed away, so now I have Eddie and Herman.
Hah yes I do! My friends joke that it's because I don't have children and need to feel like the fish are my kids.
Albino Danios:
1. SquishFace - Literally. This poor guy got himself wedged in the link-a-rock-of-death formation that I had for a day in my 45gal. I had to pry the rocks apart with a spatula (hey, I live alone, I have no "real" tools!) and now he's got a little strange "squish" to him. Healthy and happy though
2. Harold
3. Kumar
Rosy Barbs:
1. PoopFace - Now let me explain! Back when I decided to start up an aquarium, I had previously owned a Goldfish, Pudge, that I adopted from a careless friend. I got pretty attached to this guy. So when he passed, I vowed to name my next fish "Poopface" because how could someone grow attached to something named Poopface?? Yeah I was wrong. I love Poopface.
2. Ethel
3. Myrtle
Serpae Tetras:
Two which I have no names for.
Yeah I'm a freak. Sorry for the babble! :coffee2:
Albino Danios:
1. SquishFace - Literally. This poor guy got himself wedged in the link-a-rock-of-death formation that I had for a day in my 45gal. I had to pry the rocks apart with a spatula (hey, I live alone, I have no "real" tools!) and now he's got a little strange "squish" to him. Healthy and happy though
2. Harold
3. Kumar
Rosy Barbs:
1. PoopFace - Now let me explain! Back when I decided to start up an aquarium, I had previously owned a Goldfish, Pudge, that I adopted from a careless friend. I got pretty attached to this guy. So when he passed, I vowed to name my next fish "Poopface" because how could someone grow attached to something named Poopface?? Yeah I was wrong. I love Poopface.
2. Ethel
3. Myrtle
Serpae Tetras:
Two which I have no names for.
Yeah I'm a freak. Sorry for the babble! :coffee2:
I name single specimen fish, like my betta and my pleco, and fish that live in small groups, like my platies, ember, minnie and jane, but I don't name fish that live in large schools in the wild like tetras or barbs, unless I can really tell the individual fish.
Head-and-taillight tetras: The MG's. Apple snail: TurboT.
6 peacock fry--"the kids." 5 Peacocks, only 2 named, Leo, and Little Mama (she's mouthbrooding her 2nd batch). An adolescent male Taiwan Reef--Horndog.
A Black Diamond or Marakely cichlid, Black Jack. The two L.brichardi--The Duke and Duchess of Brichardi. Black Ghost Knife Fish: Mack the Knife.
Turqoise Severum: JD (for Johnny Depp--this is a wonderfully quirky little fish for one so young!) My largest skunk cory: Archer (from the "good" character in Small Soldiers).
I did have a mbuna, Bluto; he broke up skirmishes between the teenagers and moved sand, pebbles and crushed coral like nobody's business. He mysteriously disappeared :huh:
And, finally, Larry, a dwarf gourami who was the only survivor of a strange disease that killed his 2 buddies (Harry and Spike).
6 peacock fry--"the kids." 5 Peacocks, only 2 named, Leo, and Little Mama (she's mouthbrooding her 2nd batch). An adolescent male Taiwan Reef--Horndog.
A Black Diamond or Marakely cichlid, Black Jack. The two L.brichardi--The Duke and Duchess of Brichardi. Black Ghost Knife Fish: Mack the Knife.
Turqoise Severum: JD (for Johnny Depp--this is a wonderfully quirky little fish for one so young!) My largest skunk cory: Archer (from the "good" character in Small Soldiers).
I did have a mbuna, Bluto; he broke up skirmishes between the teenagers and moved sand, pebbles and crushed coral like nobody's business. He mysteriously disappeared :huh:
And, finally, Larry, a dwarf gourami who was the only survivor of a strange disease that killed his 2 buddies (Harry and Spike).
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