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(Msg. 1) Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 5:50 pm
Post subject: Do you name your goldfish?
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Just curious how many of you give your goldfish names and, if you do, what
their names are and how you went about choosing names.
We have four orandas, one for each of us in our family. Each person got to
choose their own fish from the store and give it a name. My 5 year old
choose a small red/white oranda and named it 'Ko-Da' (after the baby bear in
Disney's Brother Bear). My 7 year old daughter named her slightly-bigger red
cap oranda 'Jade' (she liked the sound of it). My wife's red oranda is
'Sienna' for her color and mine is 'Snoopy' (no reason I can think of!).
It's amazing how attached we've become to these fish, especially after
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 6:03 pm
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"nkh" <nkh RemoveThis @consultant.com> wrote in
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> Just curious how many of you give your goldfish names and, if you do,
> what their names are and how you went about choosing names.
Of course. In my younger days I had a series of goldfish with Scottish
names (Angus, Fergus, etc.).
I named one particular group of five ryukins after a British pop group of
the sixties (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich).
For the past eight years we've had Cecil (named after Cecil Vyse in
Forster's "Room with a View") and Chuckie (after a character on
"Rugrats"...not my fault, I let my son name him).
Both these fish were won in school carnivals and for some reason---despite
a too-small tank and years of lacadasical maintenance on my part (which
I've recently corrected after lurking in this newsgroup awhile and
beginning to feel guilty)---they've lasted longer than any other fish we've
had. Just simple feeders, originally, now part of the family for as long as
they'd like to stick around.
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 7:52 pm
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In article <kd6rc.1724$po6.1506@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com>, nkh wrote:
> Just curious how many of you give your goldfish names and, if you do, what
> their names are and how you went about choosing names.
Who wouldn't name their goldfish?
We have two veiltails, and two commons.
Our littlest fish is a veiltail, and we named him 'Jean'. He's got a
damaged mouth, so it looked a little busted on the right side. If
you're Canadian, you'll get this joke.
Our other veiltail is quite big, and we call him Swanson, 'cause he's
always hungry.
We have a white common that we call 'Pebbles'. She loves moving gravel
around. She seems more purposeful with it than just random
accumulating and spitting.
Our other common is named 'Zoomy', though we probably should have
named him 'Crazy' or 'Loco'. He can really move when he wants to, and
he enjoys backing up, and forcefully attacking the gravel, penetrating
quite deep.
JS
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 8:29 pm
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"nkh" <nkh.RemoveThis@consultant.com> wrote in message
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> Just curious how many of you give your goldfish names and, if you do, what
> their names are and how you went about choosing names.
Look, most of the *chickens* have names. Of course the goldies do! (so do
the tropicals)
A lemon colored common is Homer, after Homer Simpson, since, at the time, I
thought he was the biggest pig in the universe. (turns out Cher's got him
beat in that department) And now, the color fits.
The black Moor is Morticia (Tish the Fish) after Morticia in the Addams
family, with her long black hair and dress.
Ophelia was originally white (now light lemon). In the Addams family,
Ophelia is Morticia's very platinum blond, white dress wearing sister. She's
a common. (Homer's sister)
Cher is Cher because she has scales that look like sequins, and long fancy
finnage, like she was designed by Bob Mackie. She's *almost* a shubunkin.
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 9:06 pm
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I have a telescope who lost an eye, which we call "Lookie". My big Oranda
is called "Mac". I also have 3 ryukins, "Sam", "Maple" and "Angel". I have
3 new fish, all oranda's - a chocolate and 2 calico's, but I haven't named
them yet. I like to get to know them first and see what sticks. I was
leaning towards Coco for the Chocolate, but it's too obvious. Once they're
out of the Q tank and in with the others, it will be easier to see their
personality.
I want to spawn the Oranda's, but naming them does create attachments. My
daughter named our first 2 fish - Abbah and Ouda. Hey, she was only 7
months old at the time! LOL. Neither one made it, however, since her
mother didn't know about overstocking at the time - and the LFS told me it
was ok to put 7 fish in a 5g tank for a week while the 10g cycled! I was
lucky I didn't loose them all. Mac came out of that ordeal, but he was the
only one, and he was the biggest. Odd...
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 10:32 pm
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In message <kd6rc.1724$po6.1506@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com>, nkh
<nkh.DeleteThis@consultant.com> writes
>Just curious how many of you give your goldfish names and, if you do, what
>their names are and how you went about choosing names.
I didn't - my son did. There is Flipper (yellow common), Diver (silver
and red comet (I think)) and, bizarrely, Alfred (small veiltail). I have
to say that if it were left to me they'd be "the fish". Or perhaps "the
yellow fish, the big fish and the frilly fish"...
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>We have four orandas, one for each of us in our family. Each person got to
>choose their own fish from the store and give it a name. My 5 year old
>choose a small red/white oranda and named it 'Ko-Da' (after the baby bear in
>Disney's Brother Bear). My 7 year old daughter named her slightly-bigger red
>cap oranda 'Jade' (she liked the sound of it). My wife's red oranda is
>'Sienna' for her color and mine is 'Snoopy' (no reason I can think of!).
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>It's amazing how attached we've become to these fish, especially after
>giving them names.
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(Msg. 7) Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 8:25 am
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I'm glad i'm no the only one who's fish all have names.
My daughter aged 30 months named all ours, we have Dora and Boots who are
the youngest, then we have Spot and Kipper who are about 6 months old, all
are orandas, then we have 2 common goldfish called Jelly and Jackson.
All from her favourite childrens programmes!!
Kellie
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> "nkh" <nkh DeleteThis @consultant.com> wrote in message
> news:kd6rc.1724$po6.1506@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com...
> > Just curious how many of you give your goldfish names and, if you do,
what
> > their names are and how you went about choosing names.
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> Look, most of the *chickens* have names. Of course the goldies do! (so do
> the tropicals)
>
> A lemon colored common is Homer, after Homer Simpson, since, at the time,
I
> thought he was the biggest pig in the universe. (turns out Cher's got him
> beat in that department) And now, the color fits.
>
> The black Moor is Morticia (Tish the Fish) after Morticia in the Addams
> family, with her long black hair and dress.
>
> Ophelia was originally white (now light lemon). In the Addams family,
> Ophelia is Morticia's very platinum blond, white dress wearing sister.
She's
> a common. (Homer's sister)
>
> Cher is Cher because she has scales that look like sequins, and long fancy
> finnage, like she was designed by Bob Mackie. She's *almost* a shubunkin.
>
>
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(Msg. 8) Posted: Fri May 21, 2004 8:26 am
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I had a couple of feeder goldfish for a couple of weeks which I didn't
name as I planned to trade them in at the shop, which I did.
Subsequently, I got two beautiful Siamese Dolls, calico Ryukin fantails.
I have no idea of the sexes of course (as of yet). However, as is often
the case for me with companion animals, plants, manifestations of Evil
incarnate, etc., their names came to me in a jiffy: Ruby and Raymond.
Ruby is really gold up around her head. Ray is very white on his back
half, with gold deep under the skin around his neck. My, they do the
most wonderful acrobatics in their 15H tank, flying straight backward,
doing backward loopy-dee-loops, and all sorts of fun dances. Ray seems
to really do his best to keep Ruby at bay right after feeding time,
which is one of the reasons I think he's a he. I couldn't imagine having
a living thing in my presence most of the minutes of the day and not
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(Msg. 9) Posted: Sat May 22, 2004 7:14 pm
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"nkh" <nkh.TakeThisOut@consultant.com> wrote in message
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> Just curious how many of you give your goldfish names and, if you do, what
> their names are and how you went about choosing names.
>
> We have four orandas, one for each of us in our family. Each person got to
> choose their own fish from the store and give it a name. My 5 year old
> choose a small red/white oranda and named it 'Ko-Da' (after the baby bear
in
> Disney's Brother Bear). My 7 year old daughter named her slightly-bigger
red
> cap oranda 'Jade' (she liked the sound of it). My wife's red oranda is
> 'Sienna' for her color and mine is 'Snoopy' (no reason I can think of!).
>
> It's amazing how attached we've become to these fish, especially after
> giving them names.
>
Our pond fish are all named after Thomas the Tank Engine characters...
Percy, Lady, Stepney, Thomas etc...
Jacqui
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