Name your T's!

[TheDarkFinder]

B. smithi- Sola -Warm and sweet like spring sunshine
H. lividum- Devilkin (Devil's Dance)-Metallica song
G. pulchra - Beowulf
Haplopelma sp. ?? - Error - latin for "wandering"
A. Aviculara - Pitter
A. Metallica - Patter
G. aureostriata - Cosmos
GBB - Quantum - Because in physics, if a quantum particle gets excited enough, it can go straight through solid matter, aka teleport.
P. regalis - Nightcrawler - After the X-Men character that can teleport from one place to another faster than the eye can follow.
C. fasciatum - Raja
B. albopilosum - Bashful

 

[Crunchie]

I name all of my pets, nicer to have names for them I think and it's not like I have too many taranulas to name..

Green Bottle Blue - Lightning
Salmon Pink - Thunder
Chaco - Sniper
Brazil Black - Vesper
Chile Rose - Buffy
Chile Rose - Duffy
Mex fire leg - Pedro
Avic Versi - Fujin
Avic Versi - Rajin
Goliath pink toe - Biscuit

While folk may not name thier tarantulas I resent the comments of "there is no point"!

 

[bonesmama]

I give most of mine all girl's names and keep my fingers crossed! I have:
Morticia
Pico Caballo
Fang
Elvira
7
Claudia
Speck

 

[coolcars011]

emily is my B.emilia

 

[tmanjim]

g. aureostriata - gramma
a. huriana - hercules
n. chromatus - jak
b. albopilosum - curly
l. striatus - stripe
b. smithi - destroyer
a. avicularia - fang
l. parahybana - big bang

all named by my two sons

 

[Freddie]

First one has kind of name and rest are what they are.
But mostly numbers.
I may say "se keltanen sekopää" or something like that.

 

[BlkCat]

Mine all get names. It is easier to talk about them in a conversation. My b/f has no idea what thier scientific names are so i name them. Besides it gives them a lil more individualality.
Current
B. smithi-Tippy
B. boehmei-Sloth
lil B. boehmei-No name???
A. geniculta-Pea
G. aureostriata-Saint Tick
P. irminia-Anya
GBB-No name???
A. seemani-No name???
Deceased
G. rosea-Gretchen
A. versicolor-Alaria
I already have a name picked out for an OBT-Wrath
I figure i will eventually name each after a deadly sin. mayby the GBB should be Pride....
Still pondering the no names.

 

[Blasphemy]

I already have a name picked out for an OBT-Wrath

Haha it's probably a good bet that if you get a P. murinus it'll be mean (in which case that name would fit), but it'd be pretty funny if it turned out to be gentle and docile (in which case you should keep the name anyway)

 

[BlkCat]

Haha it's probably a good bet that if you get a P. murinus it'll be mean (in which case that name would fit), but it'd be pretty funny if it turned out to be gentle and docile (in which case you should keep the name anyway)

If that happened. i might name all of them wrath and hope it hits them psychologically! can u imagine an OBT with a conscience.
OBT "I cant believe she would give such a stereotypical name. I am apalled. Well, if she thinks of me that way, then i will be a sweety. I will show her. Exception to the rule!!" :}

 

[CreepyCrawly]

I name all of my pets, even if they won't know their names. I have all my snakes and lizards named, and the snakes don't even have ears! So of course I've named my Ts, even the ones that aren't here yet:

G. rosea - Princess
P. irminia - Aurora
H. lividum - Jasmine
P. pulchra - Snow White <---- To here: All Here
B. smithi - Atta
B. boehemi - Ariel
P. cambridgei - Pocahontas
A. versicolor - Cinderella
P. regalis - Belle
C. fasciatum - Tiger Lilly <---- To here: To be shipped
L. parahybana - Un-named!

I'm going with Disney Princess names, although I am running out. I thought I'd try to keep it all similar, but I really am out of ideas!

As for what sex they'll be, it doesn't really matter I don't think. I had named my second A. avic Tinkerbell, when it turned out to be a male, and subsequently died a few months later. Just so long as they have names. It helps me to keep track of them easier in my head. Plus my boyfriend isn't interested enough to actually remember scientific, or even common species names, so it's more likely that he'll know what I'm talking about if I use a pet name. Plus like someone else stated, it helps people who are sort of apprehensive about them initially to get over that.

 

[lta3398]

Believe it or not, I name everyone of them!

A. seemani= Jaymi

G. Rosea= Eddie (the 8 legged freak) my husband thought that endearment up!

A. Avic= Kane

T. blondi= Reaper

P. cancerides= Thumper...nice huh? My father in law has a deathly fear of spiders...he got attacked as a child by a nest of wolf spiders and he never got over the fear, so whenever he sees a spider, he always says i can see it, it is heading right for me, I can hear all 8 legs thumping across the floor...thus we called her thumper in his honor, even though he wouldn't come near her. She was my first "big" T.


I have many other animals...snakes, hamsters, gerbils, cats, hermit crabs...and every single one of them are named! My kids love picking out names for every new critter we get!

 

[Immortal_sin]

since I usually have well over 100, it's difficult to name them all. However, when I get inspired, I ask my daughter to come up with names. She will make up a name, then I have to figure out how to spell it
Hence, we have names like: Morax, Zia, Cadashio, Mrs Fooklabooshay, Aleukatin, Gog, Magog, Zig, Zag and Zug, etc.
I can't remember who's who without looking them up though.

 

[T-Harry]

Well, in the beginning I didn't plan on naming my T's but I was told I have to since it is not nice to have a pet and not name it.
So my first T, a G. rosea of course, was named by a friend of mine. She saw Lord of the rings at the movies and therefore called her Kankra. Since I haven't seen the movie myself I couldn't even remember the name for the first couple of weeks.
After that I named all my T's because it seemed somehow funny to me to name one of them and the others not. So the other ones are called that:
A. texensis => Condoleeza
C. fasciatum => Pantera
B. boehmei => Consuela
H. incei => Conchita
N. coloratovillosus => Selma
As you might have noticed, all names end with an 'a'. For the first three or so this happened by accident, afterwards it became like a rule for every new name.
My G. pulchra that I hope to get next weekend will be called Thekla.

 

[common spider]

I for shure name all mine I guess I should put all there names with the current list that I have.

 

[Sheri]

A. texensis => Condoleeza

I find this amusing.

Now if it was the species A. texansis you could name it Bush.

You didn't really name it after Ms. I am not going to start a war in Iran Rice did ya? If so, why are other parts of the administration not represented?

 

[Windchaser]

I find this amusing.

Now if it was the species A. texansis you could name it Bush.

You didn't really name it after Ms. I am not going to start a war in Iran Rice did ya? If so, why are other parts of the administration not represented?

Now Sheri, must everything be political?

 

[Sheri]

C'mon, that was funny, and even ontopic since we are talking about names. I am merely inquiring as to the source.

 

[Windchaser]

C'mon, that was funny, and even ontopic since we are talking about names. I am merely inquiring as to the source.

Yes it was, I was just picking on you.

 

[T-Harry]

I find this amusing.

Now if it was the species A. texansis you could name it Bush.

You didn't really name it after Ms. I am not going to start a war in Iran Rice did ya? If so, why are other parts of the administration not represented?

Yep, that's the one I named my T after. At the time I bought the A. texensis there was lots of media coverage of Ms Rice in the German papers, radio networks and on TV. And since my T is native to the US, is a female and all the names for my spiders have to end with an 'a' I thought this is a perfect match...

 

[Sheri]

Excellent! Right again.