[CyberJester]

Originally Posted by rlcline76

I have this little gold striped goby, I named him Napolean. He is small and mighty, very determined little fish. Survived ich one too many times...Napolean. The rest of the fish have been named by the 3 yr old.

How many "Barney's" do you have. Probably one or two "Dora" as well.
LOL!

[rlcline76]

He has named all of the anemonefish "Nemo", of course. The yellow watchman goby is just "Goby", super creative. The purple firefish is "Potion". Every shrimp in my house is a "Jacques".

[TreeHugger74]

yeah...every time someone new sees the tank they exclaim...oh, you have nemo.

[e_baer]

haha same wiht me! LOOK ITS NEMO!

[mtfabel]

Yeah that has happened to me also. It really annoys the s**t out of me. My friend was over one day helping me lay some tile. He had to bring his kids with him. "Look dad he has nemo and dory". Soon as I heard that I had to give a lesson on fish. Cant have kids growing up not knowing the difference. My GF said I was being anal. OK so what.

[e_baer]

haha, i do the same thing, and people also think that the rock is coral! they are like wow, look at all that coral! then im like thats rock, this (then i point to the different corals) is coral. then i explain how coral is alive and is an animal and they are sooooo amazed.

[TreeHugger74]

but it is soo awesome to see kids take an interest...and you know how much of a sponge for knowledge kids are...the next week they are spitting out latin like a priest!

[rlcline76]

Originally Posted by mtfabel

Yeah that has happened to me also. It really annoys the s**t out of me. My friend was over one day helping me lay some tile. He had to bring his kids with him. "Look dad he has nemo and dory". Soon as I heard that I had to give a lesson on fish. Cant have kids growing up not knowing the difference. My GF said I was being anal. OK so what.

Good God. My kid actually knows most of the crap you can find at the LFS. He knows that Nemo is a clown fish. He knows Gurgle is a royal gramma. Can tell you about puffers and triggerfish, yellow tangs, butterflyfish, chromis. When I bought him a black brittlestar for his tank he pulled Marine Invertebrates by Shimek out to look it up. He tries to identify shells that we brought back from Camp LeJuene...he has one of those sea shell Audubon series books. Doesn't know the latin names yet, but he is pretty smart. If you had kids looking at your tank everyday, they would know exactly what you have without the Disney names. It is nothing to get all excited about.

[e_baer]

lol!!! yeah, but if yuou have the money and your kid is interested....why not? maybe they wouild settle for a hampster.

[jgo1973]

The other day we had a party and someone pointed at my suncoral and said "that's the coolest anenome I've ever seen".

[e_baer]

jeez...at least others are learning from this hobby!

[jgo1973]

I think it's Awesome, we entertain a few nights a week and all my friends young and old head straight to the tanks to see what is new.

[TreeHugger74]

We need to some how make the maintenance of Saltwater aquariums seems more appealing than actually looking at the fish...that way company will want to clean tank for us when they come over...lol

"hey... this is such a breeze to clean, lemme show you

[jgo1973]

Brilliant Michael!

[e_baer]

lol...i like it!

[c-c]

I would really appreciate some help on naming my fish...

I am endeared to them all but call them general names, like... sweety, cookie, precious, cutie.. what does this tell you about the pet owner...?

I too have thought that if I named them, I would get too attached... (naming a pet makes it part of the family, with burial rites, etc. and I don't want to have to bury it)

So having lost some of my first precious memories due to ignorance, fish incompatibility, etc. I fear getting too attached to these guys, lest my heart be broken again.