My fish have names

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

I name my fish. So far...

• The Real Swim Shady
• Tuna Turner
• James Pond
• Whoopie Goldfish
• Salmon and Gillfunkel
• Gill Clinton
• Trevor

 

[PollyannaMom]

DS has named several over the years. The ones we have now don't officially have names (except the Beta - Blueberry) but I'm working on coming up with good ones.

 

[lanejudy]

Years ago we had several renditions of "Otto" the gold fish, DD named them after the Dr. Seuss/PD Eastman book "A Fish Out of Water." (Technically not written by Dr. Seuss but his wife, though based on a short story written by the famed author.) Ironically, when I was a young child we also had a Otto (my dad named it, I'm not sure the origin).

More recently DD names her Glow Fish after Sesame Street characters. So far we've had Dorothy, Elmo, Big Bird, Ernie, Bert, Zoe, Oscar, Grover, Julia and Tango. Maybe a couple others, I lose track over the years. The current 4 we've had for about 2 1/2 years.

 

[LoveSpringsteen]

Those are great names and very clever. Trevor seems like the rebel in your group.

 

[sheilafri]

Trevor would have liked my dog Kevin.

 

[princesscinderella]

We have a Raphael Catfish that my kids have named King Fishy since he’s so big and had lived in our tank now for over 7 years. At one point we thought he died as we hadn’t seen him in a long time, but he was just always hiding inside our big rock formation.

 

[diznygirl]

Those are some very clever names. We had a goldfish named Poochie cuz we couldn’t get a dog. Lol.

 

[AppleDumpling]

Very creative. Any fish we had, had names because we considered them pets (but never had more than 3 or 4 at a time in a small tank).

Years ago we had several renditions of "Otto" the gold fish, DD named them after the Dr. Seuss/PD Eastman book "A Fish Out of Water." (Technically not written by Dr. Seuss but his wife, though based on a short story written by the famed author.) Ironically, when I was a young child we also had a Otto (my dad named it, I'm not sure the origin).

DS was also a Dr. Seuss fan and named one of his goldfish Krinklebine, after the fish in The Cat In The Hat.

 

[bobbiwoz]

Years ago, in our pond, I had 4 goldfish. Named them, North, South, East and West based on the placement of any white on their bodies.


Fast forward until now, I have way too many to name in my pond. Babies and moving to a new pond now in NJ, so their numbers grew. Some of these are more than 10 years old. One baby has just lost much of its early greenish/brownish color. First baby to reach that milestone in years!

I do consider them pets, but now they don’t have names.

The baby is circled. You can see the dark spot barely!

 

[leahgoogle]

Our goldfish is named Draco (DD is a big Harry Potter fan).

 

[nw6675]

We've had Pebbles (the short lived Betta), Pearl (the long living Betta) and soon to be Petunia (the Betta my dd informed me we are getting).

I told her we would call her Pootie. She did not like that...

 

[kimmar067]

....mine:

Bert 1
Bert 2
Bert 3
Bert 4
Bert 5
Bert 6
Bert 7
Bert 8

.....and Ernie.

 

[kimmar067]

....mine:

Bert 1
Bert 2
Bert 3
Bert 4
Bert 5
Bert 6
Bert 7
Bert 8

.....and Ernie.

...J/K...I have a bunch but they aren't all named:

Gil
Fish Out of Water
Cleo
Sandy
Monstro
Bubbles
Shelldon
Big Orange Fish
Monstro
Ann Chovie
Robo-Carp
Bruce
Charlie

 

[stout]

We have 5 glo-fish…my kids named them:

Cinderella (blue)
Ariel (green)
Aurora (pink)
Jasmine (purple)

And the orange one…

Hercules Mulligan … because “he’s reliable with the ladies.”