do your fish have names?

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lekkiandgas

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do you name your fish? if so, what are their names, and how did they get that name (was it from their personality, ranking in the tank, a name that's just random,or a word you just kept thinking when you'd look at them )

think it'd be interesting to know if others call their fish names and why

I find I have named all my fish but some names just don't stick or stay and others you think a person or thing you think reminds you of it and so I'm left with names of the most dominant and ones with a personality, but yet my jd I called jack, and the gold demps he has for a missis, I call her goldie

looking forward to seeing what your fish are called and why :)
 
I used to back in the beginning but at that time I was buying them at walmart so after 6 months of so many fish deaths I stopped and haven't done it since(25 years later).
 
I have 6 tanks and probably around 50-75 fish total but these are the only named ones

Jackie boy - Jack Dempsey, self explanatory
Mick Jagger - 4.5" male Green Terror. Step dad came to visit and started calling him that due to his "big mouth"
Perry and Polly - two Parrot cichlids, cute names by the wife
Tinny - 6" tinfoil barb, self explanatory. Honestly one of my fav individual fish. He has cichlid mentality. A real hoot to watch.
 
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they are cool names,I like tinny!
I called my gt pretty boy and then his missus just got called pretty girl, the texas I called butch, cos he was so 'butch' looking lol
the ebas are called lekkiandgas after the advert but only people inengland would probably have seen that advert
the juvi gt with a deformed gil I called gil after gil grissom from csi
my bn pleco male I call sticky head which originated from spikey head then Chris griffin on family guy called a dead cat sticky head and it stuck, not sure why?! lol

the 2 albino corys I called bishop and mau mau, after the cross and switchblade film as that is close to my heart, as is teen challenge etc

the bala sharks, we have 3, I named sharkey and George (after a much loved kids TV programme I watched as a kid) and the 3rd one lenny, after the nice shark from the film the reef!

my fighter fish I named froch after Carl froch the boxer but he sadly died
 
PassengerTN said:
I have 6 tanks and probably around 50-75 fish total but these are the only named ones

Jackie boy - Jack Dempsey, self explanatory
Mick Jagger - 4.5" male Green Terror. Step dad came to visit and started calling him that due to his "big mouth"
Perry and Polly - two Parrot cichlids, cute names by the wife
Tinny - 6" tinfoil barb, self explanatory. Honestly one of my fav individual fish. He has cichlid mentality. A real hoot to watch.
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he's got the moves like jagger lol
I keep singing it now
 
I haven't named my fish in a long time. It comes up spontaneously though. I do talk to them everyday though lol. I address them as Discusfish or Angelfish :)
 
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My whole poly tank is named, the polys anyhow.
Razor the delhezi
Spike the koliba
Steve the Senegal
Billy the Senegal
Loner the ornate

NA tank is mostly named
Speedy III the grass pickerel
Simba the pumpkinseed
Marty McWhiskers the bullhead
Remington Coltford the channel cat

My other tanks have way to many little fish to name.
 
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