What names have you given your fish?

Have you given your fish names?

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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)
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I name my centerpiece fish usually, but in a community aquarium sometimes it's too difficult to differentiate between each individual member of the tank. My first fish was a goldfish and his name was sage. I got him two friends named izanami and izanagi (shubunkin goldfish).
 

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I honestly can't see how you could have fish regardless of what species and not name them!? My betta has a name, my amano shrimp all have names, and both my nerite snails have names. Naming your fish is something that just comes with it, unless you are a breeder who could care less because you're just passing the fish on to the next person.
 
I honestly can't see how you could have fish regardless of what species and not name them!? My betta has a name, my amano shrimp all have names, and both my nerite snails have names. Naming your fish is something that just comes with it, unless you are a breeder who could care less because you're just passing the fish on to the next person.
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I tend to name schools of fish something, like I have 6 cherry barbs and I just call them "the squad." It definitely doesn't change the amount that I care for each and every fish, because I know each of them and I monitor all of them meticulously. I think it's just a more convenient naming convention and I'm not a very creative person so coming up with a lot of names is a hassle for me hahaha
 
I tend to name schools of fish something, like I have 6 cherry barbs and I just call them "the squad." It definitely doesn't change the amount that I care for each and every fish, because I know each of them and I monitor all of them meticulously. I think it's just a more convenient naming convention and I'm not a very creative person so coming up with a lot of names is a hassle for me hahaha
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Hey that's awesome, I'm getting ready to add a small school of HarleQuinn Rasbora to my 20 gallon high betta tank. I'm probably going to add at least 7 to 10, and they all look alike so naming them individually would be tough. But I'm trying to come up with a suicide squad group type name for them haha. I'm even trying to come up with a name for my tank.
 
Hey that's awesome, I'm getting ready to add a small school of HarleQuinn Rasbora to my 20 gallon high betta tank. I'm probably going to add at least 7 to 10, and they all look alike so naming them individually would be tough. But I'm trying to come up with a suicide squad group type name for them haha. I'm even trying to come up with a name for my tank.
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Um the HarleyQuinns? lol
 

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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)
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I had a common pleco his name was blackie but sadly he died
 
When I was little (like 5) I named a stuffed turtle I had “turdey”........ o_O
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The creative genius count is now up to 3.
 
Also, for those of you who don’t name schools, just give them all the same name. I have maybe 20 bladder/pond snails in my tank and they’re all named Gary
 

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Hey that's awesome, I'm getting ready to add a small school of HarleQuinn Rasbora to my 20 gallon high betta tank. I'm probably going to add at least 7 to 10, and they all look alike so naming them individually would be tough. But I'm trying to come up with a suicide squad group type name for them haha. I'm even trying to come up with a name for my tank.
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HAHAHA you should theme it and then post it here!
Also, for those of you who don’t name schools, just give them all the same name. I have maybe 20 bladder/pond snails in my tank and they’re all named Gary
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that is a great idea, the gaggle of garys.
 
In the past I have. Not usually though, especially if I have a school of the same species or a short lived species. I'll usually only name them if it's a really impressionable, interactive fish. The most recent fish I named was really more a nickname. It was a betta I called "Charlie." And a few years ago I had an oscar I gave the super original name "Oscar" and a tinfoil barb I thought it would be funny to call "Bob" because it sounds almost like barb. I'm considering naming my blood parrot cichlid "Chip" since he has big cheeks like a chipmunk.
 
All of my fish are named after pastas
There's Ziti, Gnocchi, Rigatoni, & Cavatappi
 
Hopping on the train and saying I only name my bettas and plecos with the exception of a huge bladder/pond snail I have

Bettas are Raphael, Vincent, Tangerine and Pippin
Plecs are Bear and Sunny
and the snail is affectionately dubbed Unit-Snail for being just that, an absolute unit
 
I have Mr. Whytte aka Whytteker and Makoa.

I didn't know what kind of betta whytteker was so I didn't have anything special cause they only called him a platinum but Makoa was a rescue from the petco cups of doom. I wanted him to have a fighter name since names can carry power, and that name fits him beautifully along with his very tropical colors :3

They will be getting some opae ula friends in a small tank next to them soon too ^_^ I'm excited

Oh I almost forgot, I have 2 snails ! Tumble and Tuck xD
 
I do!! My galaxy koi betta's name is Seiza because it means constellation in Japanese, and my Opal HM betta is named Sapheda because it means white in Gujarati!
 
you have a lot of betas!




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.
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Like my daughter (18) calls all bettas as "Salad" for one reason or the other. She's strange, but name sticks.
 
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.
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I want as many bettas as you!! I'm jealous! I have 2 but when I have the room I will definitely get more
 
Alejandro won't name any fish he just uses the names they came with - like "sea sweep" , "stargaazer" , "cowfish" etc...

He's planning to make an exception when he discovers a new fish species - then he'll give it a name. He always talks about names and how he would look at all the parts and make sure "his" new discovery will have a sensible name that matches it - he hates names that don't match the fish.
 

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I named my bettas and my guppy, but not the harlequin rasbora.. they’d be too hard to tell apart! My bettas are Pisces and Alpine, and the guppy is named Marcus. I don’t know why I wanted to name him that, but he was ,y friend’s and when she gave him to me his name was Laurence. I didnt like that name, so out of the blue I just thought “oh! Marcus would be a great name!” I’m also planning on getting some apistogramma borellii soon and I’m trying to think up a name for them.
 
I don’t name them all, but if they seem to lend themselves to a name then I do.
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My mum names most of my fish. I’m considering rehoming some of the fish that she’s named soon, such as “Big T” the pearlscale cichlid and “Rambo” the green terror. I have a koi angelfish that I simply named “Koi.” Suits him.
 
I do sometimes. I have 1 betta with an actual name out of all 8 & a killifish named Smize. All the other fish are too hard to decipher to name, or I just can't come up with a name for them. The other 7 bettas do have "names" but they're nothing special, really just descriptions or some way to ID them when talking about them to people.
 
They earn a name, they get a name.
Nibbles
Crime Loach
The eaters (one name for 2 fish)
Nuggie (a gold nugget)
Blimp (A very fat Sterb)
Baby blimp (Blimp's very fat daughter)
Chubby (A chubby/rubber/xanto/pineapple/etc pleco)
Eli (a female long fin BN)
 
Also, for those of you who don’t name schools, just give them all the same name. I have maybe 20 bladder/pond snails in my tank and they’re all named Gary
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Haha i do the same thing! All of my 30 ramshorns are Gerard
 
Not anymore but in the past my fish was mr fish and my cat was mr cat. When the kids are a bit older I'll the family a mr dog
 

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Not anymore but in the past my fish was mr fish and my cat was mr cat. When the kids are a bit older I'll the family a mr dog
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What if they are a Mrs?
 
Do you name your fish? Or do you just remember them in your head as different individuals?
Why or why not?
 
Some of the distinct ones I voted. My 2 BN have names and my krib. Rest are just either the big or small, male or female or their common species names.
 
Only the distinct ones. :3

Mostly my convict cichlids. Bertha, Chicago, and now Nemo is my most recent one.

I also have two clownfish in the past that I named Orange and Nemo. Two more recent clownfish that I named Ne and Mo.

Oh and a wrasse that I named Nemo.

XD
 
I had a serpae tetra that was missing an eye. I named it Jack (from one-eyed Jack in a deck of playing cards), and I had a koi angelfish that my wife named Pinto. The pea puffers are George and Gracie (who's young enough to know where that comes from?). That's all.
 
My bettas are named. Also my plecos, cuz i only have 2 of them. Otherwise, unless i see a fish with an interesting extra quirk or extra size compared to the others, don't really name them.
 

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I voted no, because I don't name them.

But my wife, daughter and niece have named a few that catch their attention.

I just find it a bit underwhelming to name something that will never react to the name. When I call a dog by its name, it comes running. When I call a cat by its name, it looks up to see if I'm worth the effort. But a guppy just keeps being a guppy.
 
My daughter used to name some of the fish, but she is away studying in Germany now and really only two names stuck, Hector the male Cichlasoma and a L129 pleco called Henry who we never see anyway. She did give names to the angelfish but I can't remember what all of them were now, and she called a BN pleco Robert (it is actually a female) and the clown pleco Albert (I think it was that way round) but I don't usually use those names.
 
I call the pencilfish collectively pencils and the checkerboard cichlids are collectively the goblins. I don't know if that counts, I don't name single fish.
 
I only name distinct fish, which is most of mine. I have a betta (Leonidas), 5 glofish tetras that I can tell by color (Gilbert, Blub Blub, Pinkie, Stuart, and Pete), a nerite snail (Nutmeg), and 6 panda cories (only one named that is smaller than the rest, called Daniel-san... the rest are just the cory gang).
 
Another collective name - I have some reddish Hyphessobrycon tetras, I am not sure exactly what species they are, but they are a bit similar to Serpae tetras which I was initially thinking of getting, but they didn't have any. Anyway when I told my husband I was thinking of getting Serpae tetras he thought I said "Stir Fry". So now he calls those tetras the stir fries (even though the are not serpaes)...
 
Another collective name - I have some reddish Hyphessobrycon tetras, I am not sure exactly what species they are, but they are a bit similar to Serpae tetras which I was initially thinking of getting, but they didn't have any. Anyway when I told my husband I was thinking of getting Serpae tetras he thought I said "Stir Fry". So now he calls those tetras the stir fries (even though the are not serpaes)...
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How fitting. Guess what I just had for dinner.
 
I generally stopped naming them. But I have a betta with a bent spine I got as a baby. I call him Mr Wiggles because he can never swim a straight line.He's feisty and very sweet. he has marble gene, 1 eye is see through and other is pitch black.

Odin the 2nd - full moon Blue Betta

Blue Crawfish - Captain Crabby (or sometimes Mr Pinchers sometimes with an animated pincher motion for effect - he gets me....)

Featherfin catfish is Hushpuppy
Silver dollar fish are all called 'silvers' or babies ( like a collective name). they're just very timid so I baby talk them. I have 'baby talked' them out of jumping when stressed during water changes 2x in 3 years. They love attention. I swear, if they weren't in tank water, they take over the world. There's a knowing behind their eyes like an old soul.

My current Bettas in my 38 gallon are fairly generic other than my 1 elephant ear female. I just never named them.

the rest of my fish school or look the same, so no names.
 
I usually only name my betas/gouramis, but my friend named my group of kuhli's the "distress" group because of their non stop swimming. I can't tell them apart but she calls them Misery, Anguish, Pain, Agony, and World Destroyer. A little grim in IMO :confused:
 
I don’t normally name my fish but when I do I make sure it's a sophisticated, unchildlike name. Meet Sharky!
 

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