How many people have pet names for their fish

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mickey

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I met a guy at my LFS and he invited me round to see his fish.
He had a nice setup with 4 tanks and a good few fish, all commmunity setups, but the thing that amazed me was he had names for all his fish,from finbar the rts to packy the placo,
he could account for all his 117 fish and name them from memory,
i'm curious to know if any one else practises this or is the guy a one off.
Cheers.
 
lol, I do name my fish. But all my goldfish are named Nikita and they all had numbers but I don't know which ones are which except for two. My zebra danios all have names: Alex (guy & girl) Ariel (guy & girl) and Dawn/Don (guy & girl) so I can remember in what order I got them paired and the last girl is Africa because it made me laugh when I saw it in the baby names book. But I'm insane, so don't ask :)
 
I only have names for my cichlids and my crawfish. Cichlids tend to live much longer than most other fish (mostly due to the larger nature of their size), but also they have some very unique personalities that helps to distinguish them from one another. It becomes easy to know which fish is which when they act differently! My Blackbelt also has a possible lifespan of 15+ years, so you GOTTA name a pet you will have THAT LONG! I do have a total of 4 tanks setup with at least 24 fish, but only 3 of them have names (2 cichlids and my crawfish). Crawfish only has a name because he did this thing with his left claw and occasionally his smaller pinchers on the left side. He would wave them back and forth while the rest of his body remained motionless. I later found out this is in an attempt to "lure" fish over to be victemized! Anyways, I just had to name this guy "Lefty".;)
 
No more

I had a name for the fancy goldfish, but came so close to losing him that I don't think of his as named any longer, now he's just that poor deformed fish that can't see food right in front of his face. ( a beautiful Butterfly Panda Demekin)
 
I have names for all of my fish

All of my fish are named from my catfish to my oscars.
Ok lets see here's the list:

Big en-4in oscar
Lil en-3in oscar (sibling with the one above)
Mud-madtom catfish
Aoi-8in common goldfish
Ginga-7in comet goldfish
Snowball-3in fantail
Butterfly-3in shubunkin
Pyrite-3in shubunkin
Big boi-5in channel cat
Lil boi-3in channel cat
Top minner-5in wierd unknown minnow

I have about 4 other goldfish that need names. But other than that and 7minnows floating and darting around all my fish have names.
 
I name everything! The snail is Hurk. The Betta is Georgette. My husband named his Gold fish Mark and Howard.
 
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