Yellow Tang Behaivior

[Waffo]

My yellow tang is doing something I've never seen before.. He is digging a hole on my sand bed.. Is this normal for them.?
I have a 4 inch deep Sand bed..

 

[footballdude2k3]

Depending on how he is doing that, it could be a parasite, is he also trying to scratch himself on rocks, or just digging for gold?

 

[Waffo]

Just digging.. No scratching..

 

[Waffo]

He's just flapping his tail and fins at the sand and making a big hole..

 

[fishroomlady]

that's not typical behavior but interesting :)

 

[Coraloliseffect]

mine will do something similar if there is food on the ground to eat will flap fins for it to go up into the watter. But never making a hole.

 

[Gsellers85]

My purple tang did the same thing in the back of my tank behind the live rock. But it was more like a bed kinda look more than a hole, made me think of when a dog walks in a circle until he has his spot just right.

 

[Waffo]

Is it his bed.?

 

[EZMAC114]

My Desjardini Sailfin Tang does that sometimes

 

[footballdude2k3]

Gotcha, that's nothing to worry about, the fish think they can do anything they want with the sand, my fairy wrasse buried my scoly the other day, no big deal :)

 

[Waffo]

Ok yeah it kinda looks like he's having fun doing it..

 

[Gsellers85]

Is it his bed.?

He does hang out back there sometimes esp at night,cI think it's just part of the tang being a tang.

 

[Waffo]

Yeah that's his spot.. This morning he cut some veggie and put it in the hole..