OK so this is in regards to my algae eaters. in two of my tanks... One 60g community tank with three gold's and one 90g with 3 Chinese algae eaters.
The algae eaters in my cichlid tank have taken to digging and burrowing under the sand, there is a layer about 3-4" thick in the tank, i would come home to HUGE PITS dug here and there. It was usually the cichlids moving things around(sand, rocks, plants, logs), but not this time. It was the algae eaters, and the way they did it is the odd part. They stick there heads against the glass and WIGGLE like mad, this shoots the sand everywhere. Not only that but one of the buggers learned that jets of water are better at clearing the sand. they knock the power-heads around to suite there needs. After three days of digging i see the power-head turned on its side? then pointed down with the algae eater sitting on it. the jet turning up the sand like mad... I'm not upset but impressed... and of course cichlids on the other side moving it back... this has happened three times in the last few months. But none of them in the cichlid tank have ever done this before, they learned it from one of the gold's in the community tank across the room.
5 or so years ago the one gold algae eater was in a 10gallon tank with growing guppies and with the sand i tossed in 2 marbles not sure why but i did, well after a year he learned to roll it around the tank, i found this when the lights where out I would hear clicking of the glass on glass of him messing with them. With the recent addition of some crayfish he has once again taken up the sport, at first it was the crayfish digging for food in the gravel, but the pits got deeper and deeper till they got down to the glass, at night i herd a weird clicking sound again. then i spotted him doing it. same motion as 5 years ago Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle and the gravel goes flying.
Anyone that says that fish are dumb is themselves dumb... I tried to get it on video, but when i come close to the tank they freeze and strike a pose, stick to the glass or scamper away.
Well thats my tale thanks for reading...
The algae eaters in my cichlid tank have taken to digging and burrowing under the sand, there is a layer about 3-4" thick in the tank, i would come home to HUGE PITS dug here and there. It was usually the cichlids moving things around(sand, rocks, plants, logs), but not this time. It was the algae eaters, and the way they did it is the odd part. They stick there heads against the glass and WIGGLE like mad, this shoots the sand everywhere. Not only that but one of the buggers learned that jets of water are better at clearing the sand. they knock the power-heads around to suite there needs. After three days of digging i see the power-head turned on its side? then pointed down with the algae eater sitting on it. the jet turning up the sand like mad... I'm not upset but impressed... and of course cichlids on the other side moving it back... this has happened three times in the last few months. But none of them in the cichlid tank have ever done this before, they learned it from one of the gold's in the community tank across the room.
5 or so years ago the one gold algae eater was in a 10gallon tank with growing guppies and with the sand i tossed in 2 marbles not sure why but i did, well after a year he learned to roll it around the tank, i found this when the lights where out I would hear clicking of the glass on glass of him messing with them. With the recent addition of some crayfish he has once again taken up the sport, at first it was the crayfish digging for food in the gravel, but the pits got deeper and deeper till they got down to the glass, at night i herd a weird clicking sound again. then i spotted him doing it. same motion as 5 years ago Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle and the gravel goes flying.
Anyone that says that fish are dumb is themselves dumb... I tried to get it on video, but when i come close to the tank they freeze and strike a pose, stick to the glass or scamper away.
Well thats my tale thanks for reading...
or install a 10000GHP under gravle jet system...