Ok Time to confess ...

[Brookfish]

Reading through some of the threads on the forun I was surprised
at how many people have pet names for their fish.
So who names their fish and what is the best/most original name
that you have come up with?

[BigMac]

I do not name my fish... buy my 125 lb mutt is named Bubba ;)

Of all my fish I can only identify 3 or 4 as individuals and be sure it is the same fish each time.

[chronic]

My big oscars name is Tooch,
My little oscars name is Heff,
My big jac dempseys name is newman,
and my little JD's name is ponch.

My other fish I haven't named. Just the cichlids. They do the most and inspire. However the names really dont reflect personality. Fortunately in newmans case lol

[Wild Turkey]

I try to not name my fish but something it just happens, by personality traits like Bad News Betta :)

[Corndawg]

Named my betta blood! Shubunkins are buddy and goldeneye...

[AABatteries]

I've only named my oscar, Oscar... so original. :hmm3grin2orange:

[Lady Hobbs]

My blood parrots are Brutus and Peaches but I have not named any others. Hard to name 30 tetra's that all look the same. :)

[abaigael04]

L239 is The Blue Lagoon. Everone else is a variation of scientific or common name (Hemi) except the loaches who are collectively known as the CLs. :shappy:

[Northernguy]

My Oscars are Oh-Oh and Ozzie!I havent named my pleco yet,I never see it!

[Wild Turkey]

My blood parrots are Brutus and Peaches but I have not named any others. Hard to name 30 tetra's that all look the same. :)

Exactly, i could see some people trying though lol and insisting they know which one is "petey":hmm3grin2orange:

[Sharon]

Robin(Betta) because he has blue, exactly the colour of Robins eggs.

Scotty(Betta) named because I bought him on a day that I heard from a friend in Scotland.

Pete(Betta)...

Michaela, Belle, Rachael, Olive, and Madeline(Girl Bettas)...just for fun, and they are all different.

Frank is my Syno...because it suits him...

Annabelle is my Angelfish...I'm not sure why she's Annabelle...it just happened.

"Little Guy"...my Leopard Ctenopoma, because he was so small when I got him, and the name "stuck."

I obviously don't name them all, but some of my fish just seem to need to be named! I think it has to do with fish that have a distinct personality!

[SwaggTastic]

i just name them fish..and thats how that goes!

[jb300m01]

My pleco is Killer. My girlfriend thinks he's disgusting and I keep telling her that he is going to get her while she's sleeping.

[Demi ^_^]

Wahooo!

Striped Kuhli Loach: Freddie :))
Baby Bala Shark: Rosy (LOL)
Black Kuhli: Blackie
Angel 1# Pair: Muma and Papa
Angel 2# Pair: Mommy and Daddy
Big Bala Shark: Monster
Shrimp: Crumpet (Don't ask!)
Apple Snail: Fruity (LOL)
3 Bronze Corys: The Trio (Hehehe)

The other fishes don't have names as of yet because a name hasn't come too mind that suits them!

[mac]

Hi,
IMO I find naming of fish to by silly. But that is me.

So I don't name my fish.

Cheers,
mac

[Demi ^_^]

Whoopsie, I made an oopsie-daisy LOL

It wa smenat too be:

Shrimp: PINCHY (Don't ask why!)

Corys: The Trio (Crumpet is the fattest one!)

[wolf_eyes]

I'm very guilty of this. Most of my fish have names.

Betta: neutro (he has a black head and my friend said I should name him neutrogenia)

Cories:
pip (pip-squeak)
genia
doth (Dropped On The Head. He has a birth defect/old wound that made one side of his head sunken in)

[ILuvMyGoldBarb]

Only 3 of my fish have names, and those are all thanks to my 3 year old daughter. :)
2 Ocellaris Clowns both named..(surprise surprise): NEMO! arghhhh!
1 Regal Blue Tang named: yup you guessed it - DORY. arrrggghhhhhhhh!

LOL oh well, she's 3 and at least she knows that Nemo is a Clownfish. lol

[nwnittany]

Hmmm..... I let my kids name 'em:

largest gourami: oscar (because he's big, like an oscar)
fast gourami: chaser (he used to chase the platy)
three yo-yo-loaches: yin, yang, and yo
our first fish to have fry: mom
our black angel: midnight
our vampire shrimp: jaques
albino cory: bumper (swims real fast and bumps into things)
big cory: norman (like norm on cheers)
leopard cory: lenny

geez....senior moment here...need to check our fish journal for the rest...lol...

[Rue]

I do and I don't. For the schooling fish I don't.

But the goldfish I name. Esp. since they have the potential to live so long. But I'm not creative - they're more descriptors so I can talk about them and everyone know which fish I mean...

The speckled fantail: Speckles
The oranda: Elvis
The calico telescope eyes: Telly
The lionhead: Felix (after the nice Walmart employee who caught him for me)
The pearlscale: Pearl

[shalafi04]

my goldfish are the most named:

Turtle, Happy, and Wee were all named by my 2 yr old.

Frillius Maximus (named by my husband)

than you have:

Bastion and Deleram (Those are the bases my husband served time in Afghanistan at)

Than you have Albert the red capped oranda

and my pearlscales

King Arthur
and
Queen Elizabeth

and theres another one whos name I totally forgot hahhaa

[Fishalicious]

I name all my fish as well :hmm3grin2orange: Would take me a while to list them all ...

A few though:
Angels - Empire & Blue
Macmasteri - Spots & Freckles
Cacas - Bonnie & Clyde & Titch
German Rams - Punky & Pink
Bolivian Rams - Dib Dib & Dob Dob
Keyholes - Sherlock & Holmes
Filamentosa - Anakin & Leia
Pleco - Bulkhead
Pimeplodus - Ren & Stimpy

Best names I had were for the puffers: Snap, Crackle & Pop and my first betta Kaizer Soze (he acted all sweet but was evil lol)

[Dave66]

I don't think I've ever named a fish, even when I was a kid. Seemed a moot point.

Dave

[Allecto]

When I was a kid and we had a pond of comets and shubunkins I remember giving some of the stand-outs names for types of sharks and whales (Killer, Hammerhead, Blue, Thresher, etc).

Of the ones I have owned later on, a few of the cichlids and center-piece type fishes picked up names, but they were given by kids. For example, my niece named my red devil Timmy (after my dad, Tim) and it kind of stuck.

[korith]

Nope no names for the fish here either. Though I do refer to them as the fishies.

[jamiepugh]

got male n female jd male is jack female is jill also my poly senegal is called pete ha ha

[Tigerbarb]

I'm really embarrassed about what I named my Tomato clown... Well, my mom actually came up with the idea, and I liked it...
Belinda......what....it just fits my clown's personality :P

I also had a Volitan Lionfish who I named Volvo, after the car.

Also, every shrimp I get HAS to be named shrimpy... That's just the way it is, lol. I can have over 40 shrimp in one tank, yet they're all named shrimpy.

[cocoa_pleco]

I don't think I've ever named a fish, even when I was a kid. Seemed a moot point.

Dave

same as Dave, never named a fish ever

[Alfcea]

Once, I bought a second hand tank. I was inhabited until pretty much the minute I bought it by some platies... so, when I filled it up again in my house to start it up I noticed a minute baby platy. Because he had survived being in an almost empty tank and now he was completely safe, I named him "Tsuki" (Japanese for "Lucky"). Other than that, I can't remember naming any other fish...

[Tigerbarb]

Once, I bought a second hand tank. I was inhabited until pretty much the minute I bought it by some platies... so, when I filled it up again in my house to start it up I noticed a minute baby platy. Because he had survived being in an almost empty tank and now he was completely safe, I named him "Tsuki" (Japanese for "Lucky"). Other than that, I can't remember naming any other fish...Lol, I always thought of platies as hardy fish, but I never imagined something like that could happen. A nice story to tell.

[fraggle]

My kids named my fish

Oscar is called Okka
Gibby is Lally
Tandanus is Bruce
Clown loaches are Jazz and Rock
Silver dollars are Tank and Tilly
The glass catfish are called The invisible fish
The new fronts are Romeo and Juliet
The Balas were Anchor and Chum
Bristlenose was Bobo
Farlowella was Twiggy
The kuhli loaches are The Nakes
The tetras aren't named, and the cories names keep changing LOL

[Deleted User]

I don't usually name my fish. But I used to have an 18" ghost knife I called Casper. :hmm3grin2orange:

[Heliwyr]

I named the 3 gudgeons I have because there are so few and each one is pretty easy to distinguish from the other. It makes it easier to refer to them as individuals. If I can't tell one fish apart from another, they don't get names.

[Sir Tristen]

My former dwarf gourami was named El Guapo.
My crowntail is named Sir Percival.
When I was a kid and kept fish, I named my guppy Gups.

None of my other fish have names.

[troy]

I don't really name my fish. I had a male betta I named Alpha once though.

[MCHRKiller]

Normally I dont name fish either, but a couple of mine have been blessed with names :)

Male Blood Parrot-C*#t Face
Tiger Shovelnose-Gator
Red VT Betta-Mr Pissy
Black Shark-Blacky