Clown making crater in sand

[James5214]

Every morning my clown has re dug this crater in the sand bed. It's a decent size one next to a rock structure. Any reasoning on why my clown is doing this?

 

[gbroadbridge]

Because it's a clown fish.

They do some dumb things.

 

[homer1475]

Yup, just a dumb clownfish.

My larger female clown has claimed an elegance as her home. If anyone knows anything about elegance corals, they are typically found in the sand, where they bury themselves deep enough so their polyp can lay out on the sandbed.

Regardless of this, my clown clears the sand from the base every day(I usually throw it back during feeding). The elegance wasn't so happy in the beggining, but has since gotten used to it, although it does not open anywhere near as large as it should be.

Clowns are just weird sometimes.

 

[Garf]

Every morning my clown has re dug this crater in the sand bed. It's a decent size one next to a rock structure. Any reasoning on why my clown is doing this?

Is it part of a pair?

 

[James5214]

They weren't paired no. I had originally got a white flurry clown and had her for a little bit and she has gotten big and fat and so I got a small snowflake clown to hopefully get them to pair and at first it was battle of the dominant and now every morning when I turn tank lights on they are swimming right next to each other just waking up. And they don't always swim together during the day but they always seem to get back to eachother and make sure everything's good and they swim side by side for a little then the smaller one goes swimming on it's on for a little then they link back up and do it all over again. Idk if they are paired yet but seeing every morning they wake up right next to each other and there's no fun damage no fighting anymore

 

[Garf]

They weren't paired no. I had originally got a white flurry clown and had her for a little bit and she has gotten big and fat and so I got a small snowflake clown to hopefully get them to pair and at first it was battle of the dominant and now every morning when I turn tank lights on they are swimming right next to each other just waking up. And they don't always swim together during the day but they always seem to get back to eachother and make sure everything's good and they swim side by side for a little then the smaller one goes swimming on it's on for a little then they link back up and do it all over again. Idk if they are paired yet but seeing every morning they wake up right next to each other and there's no fun damage no fighting anymore

No fighting is good, lol. Maybe the one digging the crater is making the bed, for some lovin

 

[James5214]

Here's a pic of her crater and look she decided to pop into the picture like yep that's me I did that I claim that mess lol. I filled it back in some but she usually digs it back up every night. It's right in front of that rock structure. And you can see the tail of my firefish in the left side of the pic lol

 

[James5214]

Yes there has been no more fighting what so ever. No fun damage to the new little snowflake clown. But that clown as been in there almost a month now so if it wasn't going to work out I'm sure it would of already happened. But both are healthy and are fat and eat like crazy and swim all over the tank

 

[homer1475]

Just clowns being clowns.

 

[Waters]

The often do that to clear their nesting site.......paired or not, they get confused lol.