Clowns Doing Weird Stuff

[krzyphsygy]

So I posted a thread on these snowflake I purchased and how there were not eating. Well the big female ate alittle today. Thanks god, but the small one did not. Any way I noticed the large female doing something I have never seen one of my clowns do. She was using her tale fin and but to dig a ditch in the sand bed where they hand out. Clearly to me, she was making some kind of bed or something.

Anyone know why she was doing this?

 

[Mavrk]

Normally when they do this, it is looking for a smooth spot to lay eggs.

 

[krzyphsygy]

Ok, not ready for that......Is that why there not eating? I just got them 48hrs ago.

Funny thing is the LFS had them in a tank in the back room for 6 months waiting for them to spawn and they never did, so I bought them from the tank.

Now what? What do I do?

 

[Stopsignhank]

Sounds like when I took down my 125. The day that I took it down was the day that my clowns laid eggs.

Don't worry if they lay eggs. I think it is too late to do anything about the young. You can do a search on here about raising clown babies, but in order to do it successfully I think you would have already had to have started your rotifer cultures. I could be wrong about the timing though. Anyway if the young do hatch and you are not ready to raise them.... well that should solve your clown feeding problem for a day. Think the circle of life.

 

[Mavrk]

Like mentioned above, if they lay eggs you don't have to raise them. In fact, the first batch is usually not that great anyway. Once they start laying, they will keep doing that like clockwork for a long time to come. So you can just let the eggs hatch and become fish/overflow food. They almost always hatch at night anyway. If you decide to raise them sometime, make sure you do your research first. But there is never a hurry to start raising clowns since they spawn so often.

ETA: Is the female bulging at the belly?

 

[GoTRiCe19]

I think she is just dusting the sand bed to find food. If the male is right behind her then she is just feeding him. They work as a team. I seen this before many times when a clown is just introduced to a new tank and feeding habits change. I don't think she is going to lay eggs.