What did you name your fish!!

Just about any fish/shrimp/crab I've ever owned had a name after a while. Some of the names were based on their behavior and some of the names were simply made up.

For example:

Snapper is a brand of lawnmower and was the name of my lawnmower blenny
Corky is the name of a clown that I named one of my perculas (clownfish)
I had a psuedochromis that was named, "yalittle". It was short for you little piece of crap.

I've had numerous mantis that were one of the dangerous types. First there was Fluffy, then there was Cuddles, then there was Sugar, and then there was Spice. My smaller mantis usually had more boring names.

All of my animals have had names....some interesting....some boring.

 

I personally don't come up with the names, but that's my girlfriend's job. I keep the fish nice and happy and bring home new ones and she names them based on their personality and appearance:

2 False Perculas: Nemo & Mohawk
Coral Beauty: Princess Bananahammock
Six line: Watermelon

(Fish that have passed on)
Diamond Goby: Toby the Goby
Blackback Butterfly: Rocky

and we don't name the inverts because there are just too many. ;D

 

My wife and kids have named every creature that ever swam, creeped or crawled in any of my tanks!

 

I never named my fish, but various girl friends have named them

My fiancé’s names for my fish are:
Sailfin Tang ~ piglet
Yellow watchman~ Grumpy Gail (was Gus till we discovered it was female)
Royal Gramma ~ Seagram
Midas Blenny she hasn’t named yet, nor my Green Goby or the Fire fish




One girlfriend’s names for my fish were:
Yellow Tang ~ mozzarella
Yellow watchman ~ daffodil
Lawnmower~ Homer
Flame angel~ Michele

 

oh it's fun naming them. They do have personalities.

jawfish: peekaboo
firefish: freckles
tang: funshine
clowns: coral and neo
yellow watchman: kermie

 

rofl!!!;D friends, and i to had a Six Line named watermelon... weird!

 

LOL thats funny, naming Every fish a construction equipment name!

 

Er We Have To Name Them?

hi,
My wife named the little clown NEMo, and the little Bleemy is Hoover like the vaccum, and the sand goby is called Eureka after another vaccum, and the coral Banded shrimp she calls Rocky cause he always puts up his claws like a boxer.
we haven named everybody yet thank goodness it would really bite if something happened to one of the named chosen, like I need more stress.
Doug

 

I had two domino damsels and one blue devil damsel and they were called "mookie n nem"

 

While I rarely name them, my 18-year-old daughter insists that they all have names. Some of my tank's inhabitants are (or have been):

Yellowtail Blue Damsel = Meeple (for "Mean People")
Banded Coral Shrimp = Jacques and Jacques Two
Decorated Firefish = Ember
Lawnmower Blenny = Scooter
Coral Beauty = Beauty
Red Saddleback Clown = Bully
Long Tentacled Anemone = Emma

The Yellow Tang is named for the character in "Finding Nemo", who's name escapes me at the moment.