My husband tells me I'm crazy!

[LisaAP]

Absolutely, pretty much everything in my tank has names. The fish, shrimp, crabs and even some of the snails (if they can be recognised apart that is). Nothing odd about that surely?!

The fish are:
Nudus goby - Hop
Possum wrasse - Edna
Pink Streaked wrasse - Kylie
Yellow wrasse - Rei
Pintail wrasse - Tinker (male) & Belle (female)
Rainfords goby - Jessie

Regards

Lisa

 

[carbene]

You are crazy. I dont name my fish

 

[Crabs McJones]

I nammed my two clownfish. The female is nammed Amelia Bedford Furthington Chesterhill, and the male is nammed James Fielding Wellingstonworth.

 

[Chris Spaulding]

My Niece likes to name the fish and they work out good .
Mandarin ---- Scribbles
Roal Gamma ---- Purppleleta
Blood Clowns --- Rose Bud and rose petal

 

[Neon Aquatics]

I name all my fish too,
Yellow watchman- Goby-Wan Kenobi
Flame hawk- Roberto
Clowns- Merry and Pippin
One spot Fox face- Michael J Foxface
6 line wrasse- Walter

 

[Bob Escher]

Our yellow tang is Pinocchio

 

[wolfthefallen]

Ohh ya I name mine, Hell I normally ask my friends for ideas!

Black clown fish: Dust
"Normal" nemo Clown: butt**** (He had a real name once, now he just attacks me every time I get close to the Torch coral he is hosting)
Bleeny: Mr. Bleeny
Wheeler goby: Mr. Wheels
Pisol Shrimp: Mr. Snappy

I have not named any part of my CUC yet...

 

[bigcheese]

My clowns are named Bruce and Catliyn......

Wrong on so many levels... [emoji23]
But then again, we have a Tomini named... wait for it...
Pootie Tang.

 

[Proteus Meep]

Beaker the branching Dendrophyllia

 

[joeyamador]

You are not alone:
Clownfish - Marlin
Strawberry Dottyback- Huckleberry
2 Pajama Cardinals- Frick and Frack
3 Springer Damsels - Moe, Curly, Larry (Shemp died)
3 scooter Blennys- Bonny, Clyde, Steve (Clyde went MIA so Steve was supposed to be Clyde replacement. Got Steve home, Clyde was back)
Raccoon Butterflyfish - "A hole you nip my coral one more time, I am going to finish you!"
Fighting conch- "He who dies in battle dies a glorious death" (drives my wife nuts, they said they didn't care what I called it.)

Is this your newspaper in the morning before work too? Lol

 

[joeyamador]

Ours all have names thanks to my wife...
Yellow Tang= Tito
WTBT Tang= Red
Bellus Angel= Bella
Blue Throat Trigger pair= Bonnie & Clyde
Clowns = Sid & Nancy
Gold Midas= Benny
Royal Gramma= Freddy...?
Yellow Tail Damsel=Lucky
Trying to figure out what to name our incoming Goldflake Angel.....

Question...
Freddy... mercury? Lol
Lucky... was the damsel your "cycle fish"? Lol if so we named the black clown that too when I cycled my 120 frag tank.. ( before anyone thinks I'm cruel for cycling with a fish I used dr Tim's one and only and monitor water chemistry like a hawk as I do with every tank I have. )

 

[Auquanut]

Okay. Just because sane people name their fish, doesn't mean you're not crazy.

 

[joeyamador]

No naming here. Tang is a tang, angel is an angel, etc

As are mine when any reef friends comes over but it is hilarious what my kids call everything.

 

[Swoody]

Question...
Freddy... mercury? Lol
Lucky... was the damsel your "cycle fish"? Lol if so we named the black clown that too when I cycled my 120 frag tank.. ( before anyone thinks I'm cruel for cycling with a fish I used dr Tim's one and only and monitor water chemistry like a hawk as I do with every tank I have. )

Lucky was not exactly a cycle fish, but when I bought the system there were nothing but Damsels doing nothing but terrorizing each other so I caught all I could a LFS took them but I could not catch this guy... Lucky! We had a Queen Anthias that was good buddies with the Gramma... it’s name was Freddy ( Mercury) and when that fish didn’t make it wife decided his buddy should carry the name.... lol

 

[Lissa1987]

Blue throat trigger- Lou (my mom got it for my boyfriend for his birthday and he calls her Lou)
Flame hawkfish- Lucy (my 5 year old niece who's name is not Lucy, names everything Lucy)
Midas blenny- Benny the Blenny
Flame angel- Flame
Foxface- Foxy
Kole tang- Cole
Royal Gramma- Prince
Harlequin Tusk- Tusk...
We aren't very creative...

 

[joeyamador]

Lucky was not exactly a cycle fish, but when I bought the system there were nothing but Damsels doing nothing but terrorizing each other so I caught all I could a LFS took them but I could not catch this guy... Lucky! We had a Queen Anthias that was good buddies with the Gramma... it’s name was Freddy ( Mercury) and when that fish didn’t make it wife decided his buddy should carry the name.... lol

Greatness...

 

[Lissa1987]

Ours all have names thanks to my wife...
Yellow Tang= Tito
WTBT Tang= Red
Bellus Angel= Bella
Blue Throat Trigger pair= Bonnie & Clyde
Clowns = Sid & Nancy
Gold Midas= Benny
Royal Gramma= Freddy...?
Yellow Tail Damsel=Lucky
Trying to figure out what to name our incoming Goldflake Angel.....

How funny, our midas is named benny as well!

 

[mud400]

We have a dartfish named d'artagnan. Our two black clownfish are Nori and Chaeto. We have a hifin goby named Spiniker and a royal gramma who we just call gramma. We have gone so far to name our tuxedo urchins, Tuxedo, Rosette and Cumberbund. Also have two unnamed Molly Miller Blennies. I call one of our plate corals, the "Highlighter Flavored Gumdrop" and our Duncans are Duncan and Jimmy.

 

[MrJay]

Back when I did freshwater a buddy of mine told me it was bad luck to name fish. He told me any fish that ever got a name wound up dead. So I carried that thought with me for my whole fish keeping career. One exception is a cinnamon clown I had. First saltwater fish I ever bought. She turned into a nightmare and every time my hand went into the tank she attacked. Any new additions to the tank met a swift demise even though they were not named. She was banished to the sump and given the name Pennywise. I feared sump cleaning day. She survived another 3 years in her prison. Then one day my cat figured out how to open the cabinet. RIP Pennywise. I'm not convinced that naming her caused her death but I would rather not sentence another to certain death by calling him Bob...

 

[Fudsey]

I named one of my fish but I can't repeat it on this site. It's a filefish that has decided that my huge colony of Sunny D Zoas are more appetizing than the aiptasia he was supposed to eat.... his name is AS***LE