2007-01-04 11:20:49 · 7 answers · asked by WTC 04 1 in Pets ➔ Fish
Your fish is cleaning/eating the algae off of them. Totally fine
2007-01-04 11:43:10 · answer #1 · answered by allyalexmch 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes this is normal behavior for many species of fish, and is particularly frequent in the larger cichlids. Often this is a sign of a mature male looking to stake out a teritory and create a "nest" for future spawning.
2007-01-04 15:59:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No this is not good, many fish will scavenge for food all the time as they would in the wild. The problem is terminal ingestion. The fish could get it stuck in its mouth or eat it and die. This happens more often they you would think. Get bigger gravel or another type of substrate.
2007-01-04 12:00:00 · answer #3 · answered by Noota Oolah 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's pretty normal, they aren't actually eating them, just using their mouths to move the rocks. All is fine. Sometimes they do this before laying eggs and others just seem to do it on a regular basis without cause.
2007-01-04 11:28:53 · answer #4 · answered by Wicked Good 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes, these cichlids are considered substrate spawners and it is their natural instinct to dig - it's a nesting instinct and common throughout most of the cichlid kingdom.
2007-01-05 07:59:43 · answer #5 · answered by Ghapy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes this is fine. Some fish, like my Ram cichlid, picks up the rocks and spits them out, they basically clean them, and sometimes, they just mistake the rocks as food, get them in their mouth and spit em out :p It's perfectly normal behavior.
2007-01-04 11:27:56 · answer #6 · answered by Flames Fan 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
this all normal....your fish is jsut cleaning the rock or it is just moving the rocks to a place where it wants it to go....
2007-01-04 12:18:04 · answer #7 · answered by Sxc 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋