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Old 06-03-2010, 03:04 AM
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Sounds like she's aquascaping to her liking. Mine do it too. Good luck with stopping it.
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Old 06-03-2010, 03:05 AM
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What type of clown do you have?
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Old 06-03-2010, 03:09 AM
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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)
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Old 06-03-2010, 03:11 AM
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My Ocellaris do that all the time. Makes a hell of a mess!
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Old 06-03-2010, 03:22 AM
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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.
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Old 06-03-2010, 03:27 AM
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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.
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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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Old 06-03-2010, 03:55 AM
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What type of clown do you have?

I have two Tomato Clowns

If I didn't already have 'em i'd take yours, but alas, I do...lol
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Mine do that to my magfloat if i leave it in the corner by their home. Silly fish. Din't know what they where really doing till reading this, makes sense now. Thanks
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Old 06-03-2010, 04:36 AM
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My Tomato does the same thing, the best thing I've found is to let him get on with it and work around it. If I move the sand back, he goes into overdrive to move it back to where he wants it. Personally I think he's trying to make some kind of point.
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