Ok, who's responsible for this?

[Jchillin]

Sometime during the night, someone excavated a 2"x3" pit in my substrate. The debris mound (piled up next to the pit) is about 4" high. I gathered everyone up, put on the hot lights and received absolutely no confessions. I have attached pics of the dig.

 

[Zagz]

LOL I am afraid you have a conspiracy on your hands. Bribes may be in order to find the culprit.

 

[GlitcH]

lol......that cory is lookin pretty guilty to me.

What other fauna you have in there JC?

 

[Jchillin]

that cory is lookin pretty guilty to me.

LOL...he was a bit too slow in leaving the scene.

I currently have four swords, a nice grouping of ludwigia brevipes, rotala rotundifolia, some amulia, sunset hygro, a fairly large size ambulia and as witnessed in the pic, some pretty massive java ferns and several nymphaea rubra's.

*Edit* - I need to go back to school. 2 large bala sharks (my suspects), 4 GBR's, 4 Bolivian rams, several tetras (buenos aires, bleeding hearts, serpae and lampeyes), 8 of those cories, 5 BN, 2 Angels and the 9" Sailfin Pleco.

 

[LandGhoti]

I think it was one of the *****'s.

 

[JustOneMore20]

I think our fish may be conspiring together because I also woke up this morning to a mound of substrate. Mine isn't as noticeable as yours though, and there wasn't a pit.....but I think we've got a conspiracy on our hands. I know who made my mound though....Yoyo loaches. Those little buggers have dug a trench in the Eco under a small piece of driftwood. Its their "command center".

Maybe you can catch the culprits in the act sometime...I'll try to get a picture of my mound and post it.

 

[Glenc]

LOL, don't have that happen in my tanks, no diggers allowed!

 

[GlitcH]

Whoever the culprit is I'm betting he didn't get a digsafe permit.

 

[Wizzard~Of~Ozz]

My money is on the Pleco.. ( I think we mutually have it in for each other).. Mine does that when he's trying to swim up the glass, his tail will blow gravel everywhere (I would love to see the speed they can get to in the wild.)

It's jetwash..

 

[Jchillin]

Whoever the culprit is I'm betting he didn't get a digsafe permit.

I run the buildings department here, no such permit was issued nor applied for.

(I would love to see the speed they can get to in the wild.)

THE WILD!!!!!??? Wait, Connecticut is not too far from me. LOL.

I received another possible explanation. It's possible that one of the bristlenoses (female) dug out the pit to attract a male there for ermmm...a bit of privacy?

 

[Devilishturtles]

My GBR's used to dig huge holes like that right before the spawned. Anyways, it is pretty rude of them to do it without permission, but fish can be onery like that. Hehe.

 

[Jchillin]

My money is on the Pleco.. ( I think we mutually have it in for each other).. Mine does that when he's trying to swim up the glass, his tail will blow gravel everywhere (I would love to see the speed they can get to in the wild.)

It's jetwash..

Well, I set up the hidden camera (my wife) and the culprit was identified. It was in fact...Cliff, the 9" Sailfin pleco. She watched do exactly what you described and I was able to see him do it live. What an amazing sight, substrate and detrius (not to mention plants) flying everywhere.

Thanks Wizz...mystery sol-ved.

 

[Wizzard~Of~Ozz]

Nice detective work.

They are truly powerful fish.. I watched mine try and move a piece of driftwood with his nose (about 15lbs). the driftwood held it's ground, but the substrate was piled up a good 8" at the back of the tank.. It left a crater about 8" across and almost to the glass bottom. (My substrate is 3-4" thick)

 

[tropicfishman]

it was your wife!!! she's framing your fish..she's jealous of ya!

 

[Jchillin]

it was your wife!!! she's framing your fish..she's jealous of ya!

Not very likely, I'd have seen right through such an attempt. Plus, Cliff has given a full confession.

Case closed.