Your best/worst decorators?

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Acaras - don't really decorate much but will shake and drag an occasional vine. So, N/A
Synos - pretty much stay out of the way and find a quiet spot to hide. N/A

GOOD ONES
HRPs - manage to make huge cool mounds of sand as 'doors' for their hides. Can dig out big areas too...very orderly. They don't bother plants at all. They can pile up the tiniest amounts of sand and shape it. Surprisingly strong for their size and can move some deco.
Oscar- when he's on his game Brick can aquascape big time, sometimes better than me!

MIDDLE OF THE ROAD
Severum - Corn does mild digging in this area only. Only plant he bothers is Pothos which he'll strip and eat.

BAD ONES
The parrots. Their tanks always look like a bomb went off and change every day. Kong is the worst...she likes a messy crapfest. I don't even waste time moving stuff around because she'll scatter and pull it all down right away. All her plants stay knocked over. Tango piles everything up in the middle like a trash pit.

Brick. He can wreck a tank when the mood hits. Sand piled on hides, craters and pits dug into high walls of sand. Tipped over corner filters, boulders shoved against the glass, plants pulled down and piled up, stems ripped out and floating...you name it.
 
I had a red devil years ago and I could not stand how it would pile all the gravel up on one side of the tank.
 
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Casper (Amphilophus Saggitae)
He is an entire excavation company in himself. Could nearly dig out the pit as you fill it. But, if you left him main pit alone he wouldn't dig secondary pits.

HRPS very efficient diggers, left most other stuff alone

Jack Dempsey very fast diggers

Oscar absolute and total plant destruction, not so bad at digging

These are what my fish did, your experience may very
 
My oscar hates plants with a passion. Fake or real.
I put a silicone sword plant in so he could play around with it after his mate passed. Just pissed him off so I removed.
My 15 year old silver dollars also tried heating this plant.
Needless to say I removed it.
 
NO CONTEST
Acaras - don't really decorate much but will shake and drag an occasional vine. So, N/A
Synos - pretty much stay out of the way and find a quiet spot to hide. N/A

GOOD ONES
HRPs - manage to make huge cool mounds of sand as 'doors' for their hides. Can dig out big areas too...very orderly. They don't bother plants at all. They can pile up the tiniest amounts of sand and shape it. Surprisingly strong for their size and can move some deco.
Oscar- when he's on his game Brick can aquascape big time, sometimes better than me!

MIDDLE OF THE ROAD
Severum - Corn does mild digging in this area only. Only plant he bothers is Pothos which he'll strip and eat.

BAD ONES
The parrots. Their tanks always look like a bomb went off and change every day. Kong is the worst...she likes a messy crapfest. I don't even waste time moving stuff around because she'll scatter and pull it all down right away. All her plants stay knocked over. Tango piles everything up in the middle like a trash pit.

Brick. He can wreck a tank when the mood hits. Sand piled on hides, craters and pits dug into high walls of sand. Tipped over corner filters, boulders shoved against the glass, plants pulled down and piled up, stems ripped out and floating...you name it.
Mbuna are usually the biggest redesigners I’ve had
 
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