What is my clown doing?

[lastlight]

I have a female Fire Clown in my 34g. The past few days she's been settling on the sand and then flipping her tail like crazy. She clears out little areas of sand like this until the glass is exposed. It's raining sand all over my corals. This is not an irritation issue...she looks fantastic and eats like a beast.

What's up with this? Anything I can do to stop it?!

[Wingin It]

Sounds like she's aquascaping to her liking. Mine do it too. Good luck with stopping it.

[lastlight]

What type of clown do you have?

[vaporize]

Sorry no way of stopping it once they pick their "home" spot, unless you can get them into an anemone and the anemone is somewhere off the sandbed. It's part of the cleaning the nest house cleaning thing.

Tomato complex, Clarkii complex and maroons are common with that. Fire clown is in the tomato complex (fyi)

[Lance]

My Ocellaris do that all the time. Makes a hell of a mess!

[lastlight]

She's doing this in multiple spots. Drives me crazy!

I'll be trying to catch her tomorrow and finding her a new home.

I was about to say my pair of Tomatos never did this in my old tank...then I remembered that was bare bottom lol.

[globaldesigns]

My maroon clown does this, drives me crazy, as the sand storms haze up the tank and the darn thing has killed coral because of burying it.

My fish is soooooo stupid, it is now hosting to fuzzy mushrooms, then goes back to a open brain, then back and forth.

[VFX]

My black & white percs have started doing the same thing.

I have little holes in the sand, about 3-4 inches wide, where they've tried to clean & dig all the way to the glass. As a result I'm having sand storms whenever they decide to clean their sandpits.

Nice to see they're comfortable enough to feel they can re-aquascape but a PITA for sure!

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[lorenz0]

Originally Posted by Wingin It

Good luck with stopping it.

isn't that the case with most relationships when the female is doing something that drives you nuts

just let her be, she will get bored. or chuck a nem in

[lastlight]

I'm pretty sure a nem WOULD fix this issue. Tank's too small and I can't risk the nem wandering at this point. This tank is an experiment to see if I can keep sps before I upgrade.