I recently added a new peice of live rock to my tank which has been set up for about a year, and I have been starting to notice little piles of sand on top of the sand bed, almost like ant-hills, except in the tank. They only seem to appear at night, or atleast that is when they are built. What is causing this, and is it good or bad?
Sand Piles
- Thread starter Wormo3188
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The only thing in the tank is 1 Maroon Clown, 1 Cleaner Shrimp, 1 Peppermint Shrimp, 2 emerald crabs, a bunch of blue leg hermit crabs and astrea snails.
It looks like there might be a small hole at the top, these "piles" are no more than a centimeter in diameter.
It looks like there might be a small hole at the top, these "piles" are no more than a centimeter in diameter.
Your Maroon clown could be making divits when it sleeps. My clowns (false perc) used to do this before they migrated to the top of the tank to sleep. (Funny, they sleep in the upper left hand corner of the tank). But a friend of mine has a Maroon, and it also makes "shallow divits" to sleep in.
Of course, this is just a thought, it would be something else, but I think it would be my first guess looking at your animals.
~wings~
Of course, this is just a thought, it would be something else, but I think it would be my first guess looking at your animals.
~wings~
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