What names have you given your fish?

[MacZ]

Not really, I only have one named fish.

Same. Only got cardinals right now but one is a really big ancient specimen I called "Gramps".

 

[jinjerJOSH22]

Same. Only got cardinals right now but one is a really big ancient specimen I called "Gramps".

I love that, my only named fish is a Moonlight Gourami call "Mangetsu" which means "Full Moon" in Japanese.

 

[fishouttawater]

I don't usually name fish but my oscar got named ozzy.they hes such a personable fish he deserved a name.

 

[KinderScout]

Only ever named our always hungry dwarf gourami 'Mr Creosote' (look him up on YouTube). He would happily be hand fed. He didn't explode but did die from iridovirus

 

[aquafrogg]

I do name my aquatic pets for the most part. My betta is Reginald, or Reggie for short



My ADF is Eddie, and Crash was his brother who passed away unfortunately. Bonus points for who gets the reference. I’m hoping to get Eddie a girlfriend sometime soon.



My nerite is unnamed at the moment. I just call him “the nerite” but I’d like to have a name for him soon



I named the adult mystery snails I had, my first was Sheldon and my second was “mama snail” because she had tons of babies. I didn’t name the babies because there were way too many to tell them apart. I have not named any shrimp I ever had but mostly because they die after a week. Can’t keep those things alive.

They obviously will never know their names or hear you say their names, it’s more for my own enjoyment. They are my pets, I name them just like id name a dog or cat.

 

[iamgoldfish]

I have butterspice and honeybun my two honey gouramis. dreamsicle, sunbeam, and blubsy the guppies.

I have 6 ember tetras and they are all named "thomas." lol.

one of my goldfish is called Thomas, cos I told my brother he could name it....so he named it after himself. lol he's three

 

[juniperlea]

I do name my aquatic pets for the most part. My betta is Reginald, or Reggie for short

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My ADF is Eddie, and Crash was his brother who passed away unfortunately. Bonus points for who gets the reference. I’m hoping to get Eddie a girlfriend sometime soon.

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My nerite is unnamed at the moment. I just call him “the nerite” but I’d like to have a name for him soon

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I named the adult mystery snails I had, my first was Sheldon and my second was “mama snail” because she had tons of babies. I didn’t name the babies because there were way too many to tell them apart. I have not named any shrimp I ever had but mostly because they die after a week. Can’t keep those things alive.

They obviously will never know their names or hear you say their names, it’s more for my own enjoyment. They are my pets, I name them just like id name a dog or cat.

Your Reggie looks like my Herman! I remember when you posted about Crash. I lost an ADF to bloat a few days ago. And, not too long ago, I'm convinced one died from Chytrid. Not good, if I'm correct. Delicate, delicate species, but wonderful!

 

[CaptainAquatics]

I name all my fish other than schooling fish.

 

[Sprinkle]

Do you name a your fishies?
If so if you have a group of schooling fish how do you tell them apart?

I had two Swordtail females named Sprinkle and Bun. Bun is my profile pic.
I gave them to my friend with 80 gallon tank.

 

[MacZ]

Same. Only got cardinals right now but one is a really big ancient specimen I called "Gramps".

Guess who kicked the bucket overnight. Meaning a) I'm down to 7 cardinals and b) to "No fish with names"

 

[nicholasrjohnson]

So, I have Larry, Moe, and Curly, the angelfish. Largest to smallest. Then I have the tetras, the sparkling diamonds. Then, the two Bolivian Rams, Pebbles and Bambam. Then the two plecos, Whitey and Darkie. Pictures will follow. They are all babies

 

[MissPanda]

Absolutely!

If I can't tell them apart they get a group name and some have multiple or evolving names.

German blue balloon ram - He has multI names....piggles, mr piggles, piggly, turd, turdlet

Tetras - group named "the teddies" or "the teds" except for one big fat one named porker.

kuhlI loaches- group named loacheeches. when I see one I say hI and address him loacheeeeeech. (must extend the e sound)
My mom calls them snakes.

Amano shrimp - group named "the shrimpington shrimps". If I see one I greet him by saying "hI shrimpington"

nerite snails - group named "the snailivers", with the exception of 1 named bumblebee.

Rabbit snail- sneeore.

1 wrestling halfbeak - named barracuda.... but you can't say it that way. It has a way to say it, with the cuuuuuuda part drawn out long and almost like you're singing it.

otocinclus - the otocopters or fatocincluses

bladder snails = tribe of herkamurs. There is one first one who started all the herkamur descendants. He's my favourite and was the original herkamur. I painted a white line on his shell so I know who he is.


1 dwarf orange crayfish- started as mr pinsers and has evolved to mr schnippers or schnipps.

1 brand new bamboo shrimp - potato

2 psedomogul luminatus- strawbs and bluebs

2 assasin snails - bebop and rocksteady

 

[Arvil]

One names a dog because he responds, naming a cat, besides the fact that it doesn't care, at least sometimes, it'll look at ya. But, I don't name my chickens or fish, they don't acknowledge their names. Besides who can tell them apart if the same species?

 

[FinalFins]

the celestial pearl danio group AKA galaxy rasboras that I have were dubbed the guardians of the galaxy when I got them.

 

[phnx314]

I have 7 corys all named but they’re not hard to tell apart. My kuhlI loaches I tell them apart by their tails.

 

[CatM30]

For those who have schooling fish or multiple fish that look alike, do you name the individual fish? Do you give them all the same name? Like if you have 10 tetras are they all named Clyde?

 

[Utar]

That's big mamma because she is the biggest in the tank, that's my little guy because he is the smallest, that's rascal because he is the trouble maker, that's hungerboy because he gets to the food first and eats the most, etc.

 

[AquEric]

Fish 1 fish 2 fish 3 fish 4 you get the picture

 

[AquEric]

Just kidding

 

[RedOnion]

My female betta that I got is pretty young, so not sure how her colors will come in but as of now her scales are white and her fins are red. So I named her Red Onion

 

[Convoluted77]

Usually my schools have 1 Fatty,1 Minnie and everyone else is Buddy

 

[Bambikill]

I don't name my fish. With one exception. My super rot bristlenose. "Builder Bob".
He just recently got his name, even though he's something like five, six years old.

Never really thought about naming him but I was complaining to others about the annoying little thing keeping me up at night with his new hobby; rolling a small terracotta pot over the bottom of the temporary tank they're housed in... It doesn't matter how many times I move it--in the morning, he has dug away all sand from underneath it, moved it to the wall, and keeps rolling it here and there. It seems to amuse him and I would feel bad if I took it from him, since it's his favourite hideout at the moment.
(When I moved them to the temporary tank in wait for the larger one to finish cycling--I found the pot buried in the sand and silt--I'd completely forgotten that it was in there, but then I remembered that he was the one who buried it there, to begin with...) He drives me crazy when he's at it, but at the same time--he's really kind of charming with his hard work moving the pot...

So; "Builder Bob"...
(I've had a tame gull called "Bob" but it can't be helped. Mr Annoying just can't be anything than "Builder Bob"...)

 

[Pariah]

How do I name fish? I have a 6 year old daughter. She takes care of that for us. I usually just yell explicitives at them and tell them to stop biting me.

 

[FishBoy101]

I never name my fish. Mainly because they are always schooling fish! I name the specific ones, like, big one, or small one.

 

[TetraPlaties888]

when i name my schooling fish that look the same i just go with a group of names from a t.v show. My red eye tetras are the characters from friends

 

[Betta02]

Most of my fish don't have names. I can't tell them apart. My Black Moors are Fred and Barney, and my one Angel is Groucho because he looks like he has a mustache and is not very nice. I may come up with a name for my other Angel eventually, but mostly I just call them 'kids'.

 

[ghostdawg]

When I first started keeping fish last year, I did name my 3 BST, the Three Stooges, because they were three different sizes, but once I started adding more fish, I stop naming them. I can't tell them apart anymore!

 

[FishGirl115]

Idk about schooling fish. I have male guppies, so I can tell them all apart. I name them by personality, color, etc.
with my peppered corys, I name the ones I can tell apart. Example: one has pectoral fins that are really long and stick out to the side like airplane wings, she is named Jet. Two others are Pepper and Cory

 

[Deku-Cory]

They either get very human names that are typically associated with the opposite gender (ie: a female named Boris) or they get very on the nose names. Like Stubby for the Cherry Barb that lost most of his tail. Except he regrew it so the name doesn't fit him too well. The opposite gender names came from my long history of deciding a fish is one gender only to later realize it's another. Some examples include a female Peppered Cory I named Big Guy, a female Bronze Cory I named Rocky, and a male Guppy I named Honey. I also just think it's funny to give fish names of the opposite gender. People act like I'm somehow offending the fish by giving them these names. They're fish. They have no concept of what a name even is, much less the fact that I've given them a strange name.

 

[MrBryan723]

Usually an expletive followed by "the fish" like "jon the fish", but not jon. Also seafood names.

 

[Jojo205]

I do!! Right now my tank has 2 male guppies, 2 female cherry shrimp (so no breeding.. I’m gonna be buying more soon), and a bunch of snails. The guppies are named Timothee Chalamet and Lil’ Guppy. The bigger one is Lil guppy of course
The shrimp are named Potatoe (yes the E is supposed to be there) and salad - it’s an inside joke between me and my cousin
and all the snails are named Gary. No numbering because they all look exactly the same
What are your names for your fish?! Do you prefer funny names like me or actually nice names I tend to name animals I don’t have a “personal” relationship with (basically animals other than dogs and cats) funny names. And of course in the sims 4 all my pets have terrible names. I used a random noun generator most recently, and my sims’ dogs are named Philosophy and Communication, and they used to have a cat named spatula
anyway, I’d love to hear you guys’ names for your pets!!

pic: one of the shrimp, both guppies (the yellow one is timothee chalamet)

 

[BigManAquatics]

So far i have only named my bettas. Thinking hard about naming my pleco though. I will wait til his wild-caught self survives qt and parasite treatment first.

 

[Jojo205]

So far i have only named my bettas. Thinking hard about naming my pleco though. I will wait til his wild-caught self survives qt and parasite treatment first.

When in doubt, name the fish fred.

 

[BigManAquatics]

When in doubt, name the fish fred.

Maybe. Every dead squirrel i see i name Larry.

 

[LeafY4life77]

I name all my fish! (I will name thirteen of them, because I don't want to name them all.. )

Side note: Most of these fish are livebearers because It is easier to Identify them because of there different shapes, sizes, and coloring.
1. Rash (male guppy) 2. Diesel (male platy) 3. Angel (female molly) 4. Dory (female molly)
5. Jumbo (male molly) 6. Egghead (female convict) 7. Tofu (female guppy) 8. Zippy (female platy) 9. Fritz (male convict) 10. Badger (guppy fry) 11. Wormy (molly fry) 12. Sunset (female platy) 13. Chilly (male betta) And so on....

 

[Jojo205]

I name all my fish! (I will name thirteen of them, because I don't want to name them all.. )

Side note: Most of these fish are livebearers because It is easier to Identify them because of there different shapes, sizes, and coloring.
1. Rash (male guppy) 2. Diesel (male platy) 3. Angel (female molly) 4. Dory (female molly)
5. Jumbo (male molly) 6. Egghead (female convict) 7. Tofu (female guppy) 8. Zippy (female platy) 9. Fritz (male convict) 10. Badger (guppy fry) 11. Wormy (molly fry) 12. Sunset (female platy) 13. Chilly (male betta) And so on....

Lol love egghead and wormy!! I must ask, how do you remember all their names?! do you write them down? Because I can barely remember my pets’ names LOL

 

[LeafY4life77]

Lol love egghead and wormy!! I must ask, how do you remember all their names?! do you write them down? Because I can barely remember my pets’ names LOL

Oh yes! I remember all there names! Without writing them down! I basically just talk to them everyday... so I kinda get used to it, if you know what I mean

 

[StarGirl]

I only name like plecos and bettas. Tetras and stuff would be too hard to know which is which. My pleco is Nemo because she was born with one stump for a fin and my betta is Redfish...lol I am not good with names.

 

[MyFishAddiction]

I have 13 guppies, and 6 of them have names. (2 of them I just never got around to, 5 of them are fry and are too small too tell apart. If I keep the fry, I'll name them. But I talk to my fish too sometimes.

 

[BigManAquatics]

Guess we do always call any pregnant livebearers Big Bertha, Big Bertha Jr., Big bertha 1, 2, whatever

 

[WagglePets]

My goldfish are Leo,Billie and speckles and my betta spark

 

[AvaTheFish]

I named mine all after Avatar the Last Airbender and The Legend Of Korra <3 but all my neons look too similar, so there is team avatar and team kora, and my bottom feeders are pabou and nagga <3 but my dwarf gourami is named bluey, just for fun.

 

[TClare]

Only two of my fish have names, and both of them were given by my daughter (who is 25 by the way...) She called the male Cichlasmoma amazonarum Hector just because she said he looks like a Hector, and the little pleco she named Henry on the first day we got it, no idea why..Hector’s mate just gets called Mrs. Hector. Oh yes, and there is one of their offspring now about 2” that refused to be caught when I sent the others to the lfs and he/she gets called junior. I keep thinking I should name the angelfish but have not got round to it.

 

[fish 321]

My male clownfish is named Joker and te female is named Harley Quinn.

 

[Ghostly]

yes I name all my fish and snails! here are there names....

the bettas
aqua. male blue veiltail (aqua kinda means water so perfect namer a fish)
poisidon. purple veiltail male (greek mythology)
flame. red halfmoon male (well he is red...)
zeus. white chrowntail male (greek mythology)
apollo. mustard gas male (greek mythology)
eclipse. black orchid crowntail male (just what I thought of when I got him)
Athena. wild type plakat female (greek mythology)
star. white/red halfmoon female (random name)
mystery. teal/blue veiltail female (long story but she was a big mystery)
aries. blue/red veiltail female (greek mythology)

the snails.
jim hopper. zebra nerate snail (stranger things)
Joyce byers. tiger nerate snail (stranger things)
Isadora. zebra nerate snail (my sister help name them from a tv show/book series of unfortunate events I had another one named Duncan but he sadly passed away...she is my oldest snail around 2 years old since I had her)
Steve herrinton. rabbit snail (from stranger things)

I also have a school of neon tetras but to hard to give them all names lol. my other pets are 13 chickens and yes they all have names a ball python named nagini (Harry Potter) a Balinese male cat named mr.nelson and female black cat named daisy.

 

[Broggy]

you have a lot of betas!

yes I name all my fish and snails! here are there names....

the bettas
aqua. male blue veiltail (aqua kinda means water so perfect namer a fish)
poisidon. purple veiltail male (greek mythology)
flame. red halfmoon male (well he is red...)
zeus. white chrowntail male (greek mythology)
apollo. mustard gas male (greek mythology)
eclipse. black orchid crowntail male (just what I thought of when I got him)
Athena. wild type plakat female (greek mythology)
star. white/red halfmoon female (random name)
mystery. teal/blue veiltail female (long story but she was a big mystery)
aries. blue/red veiltail female (greek mythology)

the snails.
jim hopper. zebra nerate snail (stranger things)
Joyce byers. tiger nerate snail (stranger things)
Isadora. zebra nerate snail (my sister help name them from a tv show/book series of unfortunate events I had another one named Duncan but he sadly passed away...she is my oldest snail around 2 years old since I had her)
Steve herrinton. rabbit snail (from stranger things)

I also have a school of neon tetras but to hard to give them all names lol. my other pets are 13 chickens and yes they all have names a ball python named nagini (Harry Potter) a Balinese male cat named mr.nelson and female black cat named daisy.

i got a dwarf gourami, and when i told my sister what kind of fish it was she kept calling it a guillotine, and sadly it stuck and its not letting go. guilotine it is.

 

[Dunk2]

Only one of my fish has a name.

This is Sharkey. My creativity amazes me.

 

[Broggy]

Only one of my fish has a name.

This is Sharkey. My creativity amazes me.
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THAT IS A FAT CHUNKY ADORABLE RED TAIL SHARK

 

[Dunk2]

THAT IS A FAT CHUNKY ADORABLE RED TAIL SHARK

His tank mates decided a while back not to mess with his food.

 

[StarGirl]

Only one of my fish has a name.

This is Sharkey. My creativity amazes me.
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IDK I think Redfish has you beat lol