I actually can't tell her gender but decided to consider her female since my other pet is already male :) She is a freshwater fish called the climbing perch, locally, puyu.
'One of the most celebrated local fishes, it is capable of wandering "cross-country" from one water body to another. It crawls about with its spiky gill covers propped by its pectoral fins. The hind part of the fish twitches violently to propel it forward. Using this method, and when the air is sufficiently humid, it is said to be able to cover several hundred metres per trip. Despite its common name, it cannot really climb!' - text taken from here
Wow :) my Rachelfins can 'walk'.
Her natural color is actually greyish-white but she looks reddish because I feed her coloured fishfood meant for red goldfish. I should have bought the blue.
Anyway I named her Rachel because it is a common name yet a pretty name, just as she is a common fish yet uh... ordinary fish, & the name can be paired smoothly with 'fins'. Emilyfins sounds a little tongue-tangling. Brendafins, well, I don't like the name Brenda. Florencefins is a mouthful.
Why Witwicky? Well, she is named after that great old captain in Transformers. It's befitting because he was someone who navigated the sea, a place where fishes live. Furthermore she's also uh... kinda like a transformer too, one minute she swims, the next she crawls, walks, almost climbs & can breathe for a long time out of water hehe ... And I read somewhere that climbing perches are the toughest of the freshwater fishes & can survive harsh conditions.
Wow, Rachelfins is amazing :) :)
