Just Want To Make Sure This Is Normal

[RobberyinCSharp]

Is it normal for a German Blue Ram to "dig" through my sand substrate? She's not flashing...But every now and again she likes to push her head into the sand and swim fiercely until she digs up as much substrate as possible. I think it's adorable as heck, but I want to make sure that's not a sign of anything bad!

 

[Malawi MaD]

Yep perfectly normal, Shes just moving the sand out of the way. They do look funny when they do this.

 

[RobberyinCSharp]

She also likes to shake her bottom side in the sand and shake!

 

[onidrase]

Yep. Cichlids love to dig. My convicts spend all day doing that same kind of digging. My firemouth digs with its mouth rather than body, scooping up as much as possible and spitting it out elsewhere.

 

[RobberyinCSharp]

Yep perfectly normal, Shes just moving the sand out of the way. They do look funny when they do this.

Hahaha she has found her one spot where she is determined to make a giant hole in my substrate. She's so WEIRD.

Yep. Cichlids love to dig. My convicts spend all day doing that same kind of digging. My firemouth digs with its mouth rather than body, scooping up as much as possible and spitting it out elsewhere.

She does that too! I swear she's eating the sand Oo;

 

[Mowbz]

Could be mating.... Lots of Cichlids dig out a hole under something if they're aren't any caves they're happy with.

I built loads of slate caves and covered them in with plants for my Kribs, and the female decided that sucking out the sand from under a peice of wood was a far more attractvie place to spawn. I lifted the wood a few days later, and they quickly "inhaled" their babies, swam off and spat them under a rock elsewhere.

Watch for fry!