Tomato Clown is a Miner

[SnowManSnow]

why does my tomato clown keep digging holes in my sand bed? It isnt anywhere CLOSe to an anemone. Wassup???

 

[Anonymous]

A friend of mine has a tomato in his 90G, and it does the same thing. :?

 

[SnowManSnow]

the lil bugger

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[TheJGMProject]

I beleive they just like to keep their areas as "clean" as possible. My maroon burrowed and under-the-rock short cut to her anemone. The anemone isn't really close to the sand either. Your tomato is just acclimating itself to its surroundings. You can say its like us humans decorating our homes or furishing it

That's my two cents

 

[Anonymous]

You could try putting some small pieces of live rock where he is digging, I found that helpful.

 

[trido]

You could try putting some small pieces of live rock where he is digging, I found that helpful.

Or you can just come to the conclusion that all clown fish are neurotic and let them dig where they please (you won't win). Also you must realize it is their home they are digging in. Not yours. :lol:

 

[eardison]

My Tomato does the same thing.. My filter sock keeps clogging with sand! It has become more infrequent though, after about three years.

 

[JKDMan]

tomatoes r awesome...mine doesnt dig though

 

[Anonymous]

Its decorating. Let it be

 

[SnowManSnow]

while it "decorates" It pushes over corals, and burries other corals on my substrate :evil:

 

[Anonymous]

Im bettin on the Clown if she stays in your reef. You gotta let her fix up the way she likes. Move the corals or move the fish, thats about the only solution.

 

[blackcloudmedia]

My girlfriend does the same thing with the clothes on the floor of my room

 

[Anonymous]

It may be "decorating", but it seems to me that the clown may be trying to stir up some food(pods and stuff).

 

[Anonymous]

My girlfriend does the same thing with the clothes on the floor of my room

First of all there are two things I want to see:

1. Your girlfriend use her butt to clear the floor.

2. An a Pic of your tank's Peepee vagina.

 

[Anonymous]

My Clarki did the same thing.
I later realized he was just laying railroad track.

 

[JKDMan]

ya clowns like to keep their area of the tank the way they like it espically if it has a anenome