For those of you that name your T's and other creepies

How do you decide when to name them? Do you name them as soon as you get/buy them? Do you wait until they are bigger and starting to show colour?
Is there any ones you wouldn't bother naming?
And how do you choose names? Do you try and find one that matches the spider (ie I have a burrower called Digger)? Do you take names from what they are? Do you just name them randomly/whatever name comes to you? And FINALLY do you prefer 'people' names or 'other'?

I don't really like naming slings, although I did with the Darlingi I won but then I lost it in a bad moult (RIP little Slipper it was named Slipper after a discussion in which we decided that if I gave it a nice name it might not get mean when it got older!) and I was GUTTED. I would probably have been less gutted if it had just been 'Darlingi 1' or something like that.

Just wondering because I got a crawshayi at the bts and its a decent size and I am very fond of it and considering naming it. But I always worry about naming them incase they just snuff it

To be honest, I named my first few but now I have like 60-70 spiders and more on the way I gave up naming them lol.

All mine have names as i am a softy.
They are all to do with looks or breed
Avic - Heinz - coz noone knows for sure quite what it is
H.Gigas - Zippy - coz it is so damn fast
G.Aureostriata - Coco - coz its bum looks liek a hairy cocnut
B.Smithi - Smithy - I wasn't feeling very imaginative
Vagans - anal -coz of its red bum
A.Seemani - Pugwash- coz pugwash was a sailor and a sailor is a sea-man lol
B.Emilia - Vegas - Coz it is short fat and hairy like Johnny Vegas
Rosea RCF- Petal - rose petal
A.Genic - Peanut- coz of all the packing peanuts when it arrived
L.Para - Tiny - coz it will be huge
P.Cambridgei - EEk - coz it was a surprise and eek is a surprised noise
B.Albopilosum - Heather - after Heather McCartney coz it had a wonky leg
P.Murinus - Chris - After Chris Evans coz it is ginger

Humm tryed it once then I forgot most of thier name's .

Teeny wrote:
B.Albopilosum - Heather - after Heather McCartney coz it had a wonky leg

- that made me spill my pint!

Most of mine are called Pee-Pee, or Binky - makes it easier that way. Apart from

Babe - the evil Ornithoctoninae sp. "Haplopelma robustum"
Belle - my AF Poecilotheria regalis
Bum - my juvi male Grammostola pulchipes (when I got him he looked like a tick )
Schnuffles - the AF Haplopelma lividum (don't ask)
Twizzle(f) & Snufflit (m) - my G. rosea pair
Genghis - the juvi Citharischius crawshayi
Woopert - my MM Nhandu chromatus (he's a big woofter)

lol does C darlingi #1-6 count as a naming convention? lol

well i did name a P pulcher "Lucky" after it got loose in my office and was found 2 days later alive and thankfully not big enough to raise official suspicion lol

and i named my male G pulchra "Ninja" cause it also escaped...and somehow got by the cat!!! stelth skillz: he haz dem.

Haplopelma Lividum is called Fraktal
Gramostolla Rosea is called ........... wait for it.............Rosie (i know original)
My giant Ornithoctonus Aureotibialis is called Enigma ( because nobody had a idea what she was because of the size of her)
My male cyriopagopus shioedtei was called snagglepuss
My Haplopelma Longipes is called Myra Spindly ( cos she is evil her mate from last year was called Fred Webst)

Snagglepuss is still alive! you never know, he may last the weekend, though it's unlikely...