krissy_4_cookies wants to know:
Its a male african cichlid hes the only one in my tank.
Ive reoranged the rocks so he has alot of hidding spots.
he digs holes where i thought was inposible but he dose it.
WHY???
Its a male african cichlid hes the only one in my tank.
Ive reoranged the rocks so he has alot of hidding spots.
he digs holes where i thought was inposible but he dose it.
WHY???
March 11th, 2010 at 5:35 am
My beta does this too, and I took him to a fish doc and the doc say hes looking for food and sometimes fishes hide there own food sometimes in those rocks. These fishes are real smart.
March 13th, 2010 at 5:57 am
He’s clearly been watching Finding Nemo and thus wants to escape from the bowl and pursue a more liberated existence.
March 13th, 2010 at 6:44 pm
Tryin to find his lost burried treasure. By this I mean they hide there food and come back for it. And if it was a female it would sometimes do this before having babies. But you have a male so its looking for some grub
March 13th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
africans do that
To keep him from digging to deep (a must if you have an undergravel filter) get a piece of nylon (**NOT STEEL**) screen and burry it under 1/2 to 1″ of gravel -
I did and it worked great
March 15th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
its a sign he is ready to mate, thats a nest hes making.
March 16th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Mine does that too, but only in one spot he kind of makes that his home it is right under a peice of drift wood! ^_^!!! so I guess that is normal
March 19th, 2010 at 5:30 pm
It is probably because the fish is pregnant and making a nest. If it’s a male, it may be going into a hibernation state they go into.
March 21st, 2010 at 7:12 pm
It could be that he is creating an area for breeding. But if these are Lake Mabuna Africans (Pseudos) than you have to understand that in their normal Lake environment they also do this to create territory and places to sleep. Really what is needed to be known here is
1. The size of your tank
2. What else is in there
3. What substrate are you using