Does Anyone Name Their Fish?

[Hugh Mann]

I'm just wondering if anyone ever bothers to gives their fish names? Thought about it, but there doesn't seem to be much of a point to it. My girlfriend has been on my case of me referring to my fish as 'they/them/it', and don't name them. She ended up calling my lemonpeel angel Mr. Snicket.

 

[fishguy242]

of course we do....who does not??......happy reefing :)

 

[WIReefer]

I'm just wondering if anyone ever bothers to gives their fish names? Thought about it, but there doesn't seem to be much of a point to it. My girlfriend has been on my case of me referring to my fish as 'they/them/it', and don't name them. She ended up calling my lemonpeel angel Mr. Snicket.

My girlfriend named one fish and that lead to another so now all our fish have names lol even some of our larger clean up crew has names... haha

 

[MrDellimore]

My fiancé give them names. Honestly the names make it easier to know which fish she is talking about if she notices something. I just hate when a fish dies that has a name!

 

[GaryE]

Even some of my hermit crabs have names...

 

[monti mike]

Yes!
Bill and Sookie:

Lady Mary:

 

[tuesdayd]

Sometimes they even have the same name. For example, the Bangaii Cardinals are collectively known as Fred; the PJ Cardinals are all Wilma.

 

[lpsouth1978]

I don't name my fish. Between my tanks I could never remember them all anyway. That being said, My father gave my melanarus wrasse a name. He named it Russel. He is the only fish I have that has a name. He is also the only fish to have survived both an ich and a velvet outbreak in the past. Coincidence?.....

 

[Thespammailaccount]

Of course. There is Sunny the yellow tang, Sir Chops a Lot the diamond goby, Yoshi the yasha hasha goby, Sherbet the lyretail anthias, Linda and Charlie the clowns, Lizzy the dragon pipefish, dumbo and dumbo jr the fighting conchs

 

[Cstar_BC]

My son has named Dory and Nemo and the rest are mommy fish and daddy fish ‍

my lion fish I think is gonna be named piglet because he is always begging for food

 

[monti mike]

Of course. There is Sunny the yellow tang, Sir Chops a Lot the diamond goby, Yoshi the yasha hasha goby, Sherbet the lyretail anthias, Linda and Charlie the clowns, Lizzy the dragon pipefish, dumbo and dumbo jr the fighting conchs

Linda and Charlie! Ha! Nice

 

[Auquanut]

All of my fish get named after they've been around long enough to prove they can play nice with others. My two newest fish recently earned their names. Punkin the filefish, and Janice (Joplin) the midas blennie. Needless to say, they're pretty proud.

 

[r20crazy]

my clowns are Bert and Ernie. named my 6line Jerky after 3rd time finding it on the floor.

 

[Copingwithpods]

My SO named just about everything in the tank, except the pistol shrimp, Shrimp Eastwood was not up for debate.

 

[fishguy242]

ralph and herbie ,clowns ,foxy the photo bomber

 

[boacvh]

All of them.
I even renamed some of them. My last chromis has been renamed to Duncan McLeod after he killed all the other Chromis. There can only be one. (Totally stole it from someone else here)

 

[NowGlazeIT]

I just started asking my kids to name them. Before then I never did. But by having my family naming them it helps in showing them, this ours to enjoy and care for and not just mine.

 

[wes urquhart]

I think you will find there are much fewer people who dont name their fish than those that do. We name our shrimp, sea urchins and star fish as well :)

 

[watdachuck]

I dont give them all names, but this is BoTom.

 

[User]

My wife has named all the fish after west wing characters.

Except the magnificent fox face. I named him.

Michael J.

Yes, Michael J FoxFace