With Valentine’s Day just three weeks away, love is in the water at Your Aquarium!
Having supplied a small group of cupid cichlids (Biotodoma cupido) to one of our long-standing aquarium maintenance clients last week, we got to thinking: How many of the other fish species that we keep have similarly romantic-sounding names? Our minds immediately went to kissing gouramis, bleeding heart tetras, and rose danios…
And with Valentine’s Day next month, what better time to discover how many more are out there? With that, we sat down and put our heads together to devise a list of a dozen (and more!) of our favourite freshwater (and a few saltwater) species that fit the bill!
Can you think of any more? If so, let us know – send us an email. But for now, and without further ado, here’s our favourite romantic-sounding aquarium fish to celebrate Valentine’s Day.
Sunset platy (Xiphophorus maculatus var. ‘Sunset’)
Violet blushing shark (Labeo boga)
As it turns out, there weren’t necessarily as many very obvious, directly Valentine’s Day-themed aquarium fish as we first thought! Still, and even though one or two may have slightly tenuous links to Valentine’s Day, it’s a dozen-strong list of romantic-sounding fish that together celebrates just some of the many things that we love about February 14th.
That includes romantic sunsets, blushing cheeks, ‘sweet lips’ (!), and, of course, chocolates… not to mention the possibility of a nice gold ring! Moreover, while settling on the ten freshwater and two saltwater fish species above, we also shortlisted another 66 potential candidates.
So, rather than let the time spent racking our brains go to waste, we’ve also compiled dozens more of our favourite fish varieties into five Valentine’s Day adjacent categories. These categories start with jewels and gemstones – popular gifts on the year’s most romantic day, alongside fresh flowers, various sweet treats, and more!
