maroon clown stiiring up my sand?

[xxseawolf]

my maroon clown hosts a tonga sebae and every now and then she will go to my aquarium sandbed and shake her a$$ and stir up my sand. its kind of cute but my sand is being dispursed throughout my tank. i am ok with this if it is normal. is my clown showing aggression towards other fish or is this normal? thanks for any help.

 

[brtbrtlynn04]

my clowns would also do that toward eachother as well..but as for marrons i dont know because mine has never left the anemone..lol

 

[brtbrtlynn04]

i would often find my damsels doing it as well

 

[Joe LoPresti]

My maroon doesn't host an anemone, she hosts a large batch of xenia. She does exactly the same thing, particularly after I do a water change and stir the sand. She gets sooooo mad, she swoops down to the bottom of the tank, right under her xenia and stirs the sandbed pretty good!! She will re-arrange small rocks and if I put my hand into the area of her xenia (notice that I refer to it as "her xenia") she'll come after my hand!!! She's a fiesty lady, but I love her to death. I don't think you've got much to worry about....

 

[GSMguy]

all maroons stir the sandbed it i think has to do with mating and wantig to clear a space for eggs but they sometimes do it in many different spots
it is totally normal

 

[TOURKID]

im convinced mine does it to keep the anemone tenicles off the sand... boy do i have an issue right now!! Ill take a pic brb

hm. im having a hard time getting the camera to tell the true depth, but i have about a 15 inch high sand bed to the right of the nem, and every day she digs till she hits the glass under the nem, and the fuge light shines thru, so every night i recover the glass, but if this nem doesent move up soon im gonna go crazy lol

glad the sand is brand new or id have a lil problem

 

[GSMguy]

tourkid i used to think it was to keep the tentacles off the sand but now my nem is nowhere near the sand and she still does this

 

[klam114]

my marron did that also. she made a pit in front of a cave she and her mate was alway in. and also i feed pellet and it would land on the sand so she would kick it up and eat the pellet. cute but it kept on throwing sand all over the place and kill alot of my coral not happy with her. on my tank looks like only the female did that. because the pit was so deep it would fill with sand and she would kick it out. stress my whole tank out.

 

[TOURKID]

gsm.. strange. mine doesent do it when its highh enough off the ground.. In the old tank when it moved way up high she never bothered the sand... granted, she moved all frags and anything she could shift around it.... lol

another mystery?

 

[Slakker]

My theory is that maroons are just crazy.

 

[GSMguy]

mine are keeping a space clean under the anemone i am hoping they spawn at somepoint within the next 5 or 6 months i cant wait to raise some babies

 

[TOURKID]

me too.