trigger digging out a bed?

[newsalter]

My hummu triger is digging out a bed in the coral under my rock opening so he can lay sideways is this normal?

 

[triggerfre]

yes it is.

 

[rldavisou]

Yup. Make sure your rock rests on the bottom glass, not the sand. Their digging has been known to cause rockfalls.

 

[newsalter]

i thought it was. yeah its on the bottom. my trigger doesnt even bother the starfish in the tank. He has been never fed live food. he isnt even bothering the anemones in the tank.

 

[el guapo]

Its normal . Triggers like to dig in the sand . Humu humu's are known to get a mouth of sand and spit it out causing the tank to cloud up .

 

[emeralcrab]

They aren't coral or anemone eaters. I had one in my 150g with lots or different corals. He never touch anything, what he did do and the reason I found him a new home is that he would spit sand and cc all over my corals. Which my frogspawns, torch's and hammers werent really happy about. So I had to make the decision, him or corals? I really really liked that fish, but wanted to go a different direction when I went to the 210g. Great fish, good luck, but they do like to spit sand and cc all over.

 

[newsalter]

yes he does love to spit sand and coral everywhere but, he is a great fish. we bought him from someone who neglected them bad when we picked up the tank it was covered in green alge you couldn't even seen the fish.
The water looked like pond water. Now we have the tank back on the right track. just the ammo a little high. They had a heater fail and cooked everything inside so they live rock and tangs died. they only fish that lived through that was a tomato clown who is about 6 years old. I should have took pics of the tank when we bought it.