Do You Name Your Fish?

[ScorpioMonkey]

I name mine...
there is:
Sprite, the Silver Lyretail Molly (Sprite, like a fairy)
Shade, the Mostly-black Dalamation Molly (Shade, like a ghost... but a dark one LOL)
Puff, the Dwarf Puffer (He was Hootie, but we kept callin' him Puff, so it changed)
Stripe and Nippy, the Zebra Danios (Nippy chases Stripe)
Peshmin, the Pleco
Neon and Torq, the Neon Tetras
Purp and Goldie, the guppies
and 2 threadfin rainbowfish.... haven't named them yet. (But I'm taking suggestions)

I also had Arch, the Angel fish (as in Archangel )... but, well... R.I.P.

Ok... enough ranting...

 

[nerdyguy83]

I refuse to name my fish anymore because every fish I have ever named (even when I knew what I was doing) has died of something random or, in the early days, my own ignorance.

 

[rushikova]

Absolutely

My lemon fin barbs are all french - the musketeers (Porthos, Athos, Aramis, D'Artagnon), Claude, Sebastien and Maurice.

Everything else is just whatever comes to mind - I have Ren & Stimpy the spanner barbs, Will, Grace (large-scale barbs), Jack, Karen and Rosario (clown barbs) and too many catfish to go into

 

[DaisyTattoo]

Years ago I bought 4 zebra danios and named them Eenie, Meenie, Miney and Moe.

 

[rosita]

I refuse to name my fish anymore because every fish I have ever named (even when I knew what I was doing) has died of something random or, in the early days, my own ignorance.

This reminds me of when my boxer/lab pup came home at 6 wks with (unbeknownst to any of us) parvo. He amazingly survived, and when picking him up at the vet after antibiotics, iv's etc., I flippantly said, "Maybe I should name him 'Lucky' now!" All three of the assistants and one of the vets all chimed "NOOOOOO" at the same time, and responded to my puzzled look with the explanation that every dog named Lucky that came to them DIED!!! Needless to say, he remains "Mikey."
And I rescued an induced abortion Holstein calf before vultures got him (dairy industry is brutal), pulled him from the clutches of death (school starting, he was living in the bathroom with the scours, CONSTANT washing wiping washing), named him SweetPea, then 3 days later some guy came to pick him up for a petting zoo (he was a real bozo) banged him in the door jamb on the way out, threw him in the trunk, and called me next day--SweetPea was dead. I was sure it was because I named him!!