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I no longer name my fish, the reason is that everytime i name a fish, loach or not, it dies. when i just say hi loaches in the morning they all seem to live.

I call them all "that one".

thats a good one

my son calls them all "fishy", just like all kittys are "meow meow"
lol

Big Bertha - the biggest
Ed - the one with the ledge in the strip on the sides
Ned - not as large of a ledge
Spot - a 4 striper with a bit of a spot

the other 7 clowns are new/smaller and haven't been named nor have any of the other fish . . . except for

Pleco Dude - a large common Pleco

I try to name all of my fish...
Patooti is my red fin, because I was talking to my friend (shazam26) and she asked what I'd named him, and I told her I didn't have one yet, and I joked and said I'd just call him Patooti, and she said why not. And so I said, fine, his name is Patooti. That was a week after I got him.
Horse face loach, is, well, unnamed. He just is.
Kuhli loaches, the four of 'em, are the Crazy 88, from Kill Bill because they're always on the go.
One weather loach is Sour Patch Kids, because his spots reminded me of the sprinkles on the candy, even though they're blackish brownish... old, old candy.
The other dojo is Fisseltotte (or some German looking variation), and I can't really explain that because I just don't know how it happened.
My catfish is Tilley, just because.
Neither of my three clowns are named either, 'cause they're new.
And my Chinese algae eater is Bowser. From Mario.
Have I forgotten anyone? Probably.
Oh, the 7 plain guppies are called the Guppy Farm/Fam. I think that wraps it up.

perhaps i'm the one with the most names...

yo-yo loaches (5)-

biggest one (4.5")- Squiggles
the two middle children: Cookie Monster (see him eat) and Hansel (from zoolander, same personality)
the two babies: Chip and Dale (they're little adventurers)

clowns (7)-

Alpha (normal)- Raja (tiger in aladdin)
in pecking order (normals= 3 stripes)
Mushu (dragon in mulan)
Si (baby)
Am (baby)

Alpha (oddball clown)- Captian Hook (he has a "hook" shape on one side)
Scrat (after the squirrel in Ice Age because he has the SAME personality! only with algae wafers instead of nuts)
Gingie (from Shrek)

Plecos (4)-
gold nugget- Sunkist
bristlenose- Pinnochio
queen arabesque- Kapiolani
Vampire- Icicle

Gouramis (5)-
pearls- Giggles and Mosaic
blue opaline- Smurf
gold opaline- goldilocks
moonlight- moonshine

the tiger barbs are also all named... as well as every fish in the rest of my 4 tanks! lol... so yes... ALL of my fish and frogs and two mystery snails have names!

1) spot

2) flipper

3) Julius and

4) Vincent Benedict from - Twins the movie

4) the alpha loach is double O loach

6) runt loach

7) the timid loach doesn't have a name yet



current new aquarium roll call

4 fat and active green corys
4 older loaches
4 newer loaches
8 cherry barbs
2 upside down catfish
2 golden algae eaters
1 6" common pleco

I can't believe I am about to talk about this LOL

My albino rainbow shark's name is Jaws. He's a good 6 1/2 to 7 inches long and about 1 1/2 inch thick at his widest point of his belly.

My largest Clown Loach is "Bozo" and smallest is "Cookie".

I have a sand loach of some sorts.. it's name is "Sandy".

Back when I had only 1 skunk botia left after the rest died of ich, I named it "Stinky" - but now that I picked up 3 more they are now collectively "The Stinkers", with the oldest affectionately called "The Original Stench"

My clown pleco, who has to be the toughest little fish I've got (Never seen a small fish stand it's ground like this one!) is named Butch.

My 5 swamp darters are collectively called "The worm guys" , after the worms in Men In Black.

My one remaining Juleii (sp?) Cory I named Morris, after the 9-Lives cat, because this little fish should have been dead a long LONG time ago, and has survived everything from being in the cat's mouth to having been on the carpet for an undetermined amount of time!

And last but not least, I named my daughter's black kuhlii loach "Darth"...

Ok, I'm going to hide my face now

I love your guys names!!!!!! Very creative.

My husband named our gobies and loaches.
Gobies are Floyd and Goober
Loaches are Lucy and Larry.

He doesn't have naming rights on children or goldfish.

I have 6 clowns. Only some are named. I have named Big Boy, The Supervisor, Big Tail (deceased), The Rock Carrier, Grey Boy. I have a few more but can hardly tell them apart.

I have 6 clowns. Only some are named. I have named Big Boy, The Supervisor, Big Tail (deceased), The Rock Carrier, Grey Boy. I have a few more but can hardly tell them apart.

I name my fish, the ones I can tell apart anyway.

Loaches - 2 of 6 have names: Squishy from being stuck behind the filter and still being a bit squished, and Spot as he has a big black mark on his nose from getting it stuck in a PVC pipe (drilled holes to make it sink better)

Pita is my oscar (pain in the @$$)
Ellie is my bichir (From CSI, cute, but annoying )
Wonkey and Lumpy are two of my 30-40 something corys (wonkey is almost white but not albino bronze cory, and Lumpy has a humpped back)
Erick is my betta (cause I have a fish license lol)
Coco, Coca, and Coffee are the Pacu (south americas biggest 3 exports)

and I think thats it really. Every time I name my husbands fish they die, so I stopped lol

Oh, I have a giant brown apple snail named Narco

I name all of my fish.

loaches-Black Kuhli-- Blackjack
Striped Kuhli--Tigger
5 dwarfs--Sleepy,grumpy,happy,sneezy and Dopey
Bettas- Male-Redbeard
Raja
Female- Lucy (red-headed cambodian)
Norma Betta aka Norman Bates (fine during the day. kills anything with her at night). Needless to say, she lives alone.

Flying Fox- Harry/Harrier--named after my favorite aircraft

Cherry barbs- collectively called the "cherry bombs"
I know.

I don't usually name mine...though my daughter has named her two angelfish. They've changed names a few times over the last year I think.

he he mines are as follows (zebra loaches)
Heathcliff
Marmaduke,
Garfield
Stripes
And stumpy lol
Stumps names this way as a while back a infection ate half his tail, all cleared and healed just still not grown back much. Yet hes the dominant one and dont have no problems at all. Il post some pics in a mo in a new thred