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Every username tells a story. Some mundane, some obvious, but other impenetrably obscure. What does your username mean, why did you chose it?

I'll start with the rather dull Jools which is a contraction of Julian, my first name. A bit like Mike/Michael and Andy/Andrew.

Next up?

Jools

Mine is a title/name given to me by the many races and species I have encountered since my Fall from grace

Loricariids are my favorite catfishes, and they have a suckermouth.

In 1997 I was in love with everything Queensryche. I loved every album up to that time & every song except for one. That song was "Blinded" off of their self titled EP. Therefore, my username was born.

Dave Rinaldo, short for David Rinaldo

My username, Sfamnun, is the Hebrew word for catfish in general and the genus in particular. It literally means "moustache fish" - safam being moustache and nun being an old word for fish.

ETA: Turns out that "nun" or "noon" as a word for fish is actually from Aramaic. It is commonly used in Hebrew animal names, but the commonest Hebrew word for fish is "dag".

a guppy is of course a fish. one that's known for its' proliferation habits.
in Dutch the plural of 1 fish is "visjes"
when pronounced, it sounds like an English word, but one that means something quite different!
put it in there and say it out loud and you end up with a certain colorful and legendary character

it also points at my demeanor and my political view of things

in my heart of hearts I will always stay an anarchist to the bone.
I may behave, but like 'Grath, I'm not nice
;)

my initials are RAS

Nice thread, Julian

Boring and practical: Mats is my first name, P is the first letter of my surname/last name. It was my username on my work computer at the time I signed up to the forum. It is generally my username on forums and such, unless it's already been taken [unlikely in English-speaking countries].

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Mats

Like Mats, mine is also boring and practical, being that Martin is my first name and S is the first letter of my surname.

Martin

Matt's my name and (30) comes from my old Honda vfr400 (NC30), I miss her

My interest in breeding small species of Loricariidae coincided with the acquisition of my first computer in early 2006.
In the years leading up to that event I had a wet thumb when it came to breeding Apistogramma species.
Between my Discus and new plecos I had to set aside most of the smaller tanks I like to use with Apistogramma and Killiefish.
But Apistogramma were still fresh in my mind and I still have some around most of the time.
I just grabbed "apistomaster" as a username out of the air since one has to have some cognomen for forum identification hence, "apistomaster". Now I wonder where my touch went. I have had good success with my catfish but my Apistogramma seem more difficult to breed than they used to be now that most of my tanks are larger.
I also encountered a new phenomenon with Apistogramma that I never had in the past. I began to order live black worms regularly and colonies always establish themselves in even a thin layer of substrate. My female Apistogramma took to taking on their brooding colors and standing guard over the red waving tails of the black worms. This has caused my Apistogramma to behave as if they already had broods to care for so they rarely breed any more. It is a frustrating turn of events.

i am 2meters tall

Although my username implies Cory breeding it has been quiet in my fishroom lately.

Mark

Andy is my first name..... The first company i started was called "Apex Distribution", and my email address was Andypex@blahblahblah. I just used that when i registered on a forum at the time and its stuck. I now use it on pretty much every forum i use so people can (hopefully) make the connection with who they are talking to.

Another boring one here.

Name - Matthew Lloyd
Nickname - Lloydy

Another boring one I'm afraid. Mine also comes from an old email address, which is a contraction of my name.

The.Dark.One wrote:Mine is a title/name given to me by the many races and species I have encountered since my Fall from grace

A very cryptic post! Care to elaborate?

Came from a really dumb occurrence. I was shopping in a LFS that I did a lot of business with and I corrected what a clerk was trying to tell me. I said, "Excuse me, but this is what I understand to be the correct information. . . . ." The manager and I were good friends and one day he told his new clerk to "go wait on Mr. Excuse Me" as a joke. I didn't know he had overheard me. But anytime I walked in all the clerks started to greet me as "Mr. Excuse Me" as he let them in on the joke. He finally told me why and I had to laugh. So now I use it as a username.

racoll wrote:

The.Dark.One wrote:Mine is a title/name given to me by the many races and species I have encountered since my Fall from grace

A very cryptic post! Care to elaborate?

He accidentally misspelled REcalled for manufacturing error.

I am Shane.
Nothing cryptic about it.
-Shane

jp is for james patrick--biod is for biodiversity-- the result of an early work requirement that we make usernames that did not use our last names-- another passion of mine is advocating for the conservation of nature, or 'biological diversity.'

Aside from keeping catfishes in aquariums, I also fish for them in the Colorado River (catch and release) in the Southwest of the U.S.A. The large species shown (pylodictis olivaris) are not native to that river but were transplanted there during the '60's from Texas where the slang name for flathead catfish is 'yellow catfish', hence the name 'yellowcat'...

With a given name like Birger there is no need to come up with something a little different, or so I thought, surprisingly enough Birger Amundsen from Norway also frequents this site and is the only other Birger I have ever had any contact with.

We are also the same age...only thing he has kept mainly Corydoras and Loricariids and I have mostly African Cats.

Literally: Birger is a Scandinavian name from Old Norse, bjarga, meaning "to help, to save, to protect".

Birger

Coursair comes from my Kennel name Coursair Whippets. Not fish related but I started using it before I joined fish related forums.

Tina

I used computers at school but were busy with family business and farm life until i got married than i found the internet....

Littlebristlenose,i first obtainetained my bristlenose colony in 1989.

All were small fish that i didn't know at time,were fry but we had large amounts of fish coming in that we had know idea what they were?

I'm keeping some fish atm but to busy with work with breeding atm,my bristlenose and other L's were from Brazil we used to loose 80% of fish in early years.

my first name is Christophe... back in 1999, I was taking "salsa lessons" with my future (and actual) wife... During 4 weeks in October 1999, I had to stop the lessons to go to the army for a while (Swiss army was based on 4 weeks of duty every year at that time). Being away from salsa lessons, I couldn't learn what the rest of the group had learn during these 4 weeks... and my wife absolutely wanted to take part to a Christmas competition (newcomers category, nothing to be proud of)... so we took private lessons for me to fill the gap...

those private lessons were right before the normal and public lessons... we used to dance with the teacher and end the lesson with 2-3 musics that we loved, just for pleasure, while the others arrived for the group lesson... On the 4th private lesson, I was in a very specific mood and every single figure I tried was easily and smoothly executed... it was like dancing in a dream, a moment of pure pleasure without any fault or pressure... We danced and danced and danced during 4 musics one after the other... to finally realize that the whole groupe of public lesson was here from a while and they were "watching the show"... When we realized that everyone was focused on us, we lost the "grace" and stopped... and at this very moment, a spanish guy in the room shouted : "WOAHOU ! ElTofi the salsa King !" and the whole group begun to clap hands and to whistle... Patricia, the dance teacher was hilarious (and a bit proud, too)...

Very embarassing moment !

But the nickname was all found...

Mine is pretty boring too. Everyone thinks my fish addiction and the amount of time I spend doing fish stuf is crazy, and my name is Geoff.

Apparently I do some crazy stuff, when it comes to fish.

ElTofi, wow great story!

Did you win the Christmas competition?

My username is AleGer - very simple Alexandr Geraskin.
I created such username at my firs job. Everybody at this job should have a domain user name to login the PC. As there weren't any policies of creating the username, the admin ask me what username I want to have. I decided that AleGer is the best one.

After that I use such username in every forums and chats.