Fish eating the caulk!?

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Adam Gottschalk - 20 Apr 2004 00:51 GMT

My 15H tank in an All Glass "Black Seal" tank with black caulking. The
fish (2 small feeder goldfish) appear to be nibbling at the caulk on
occasion. I haven't actually seen one with a piece in its mouth, but
they do it with some regularity. The smaller one showed the bigger one
how to do it I think and I think it's like a game for them. They're not
starving :-) Could this be bad for the fish or ultimately bad for the
tank? I reckon if it were transparent caulk as usual, they couldn't even
really see it to nibble at it.

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E.Otter - 20 Apr 2004 05:31 GMT

I think your caulk and tank is safe. They are probably nibbling on stuff
(algae, bacteria, something...) thats growing on the caulk.

My fish nibble on my plastic plants so much some day I'm going to come home
to plastic fish. :-)

E.Otter

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Dark Phoenix - 23 Apr 2004 18:50 GMT

> My 15H tank in an All Glass "Black Seal" tank with black caulking. The
> fish (2 small feeder goldfish) appear to be nibbling at the caulk on
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> tank? I reckon if it were transparent caulk as usual, they couldn't even
> really see it to nibble at it.

My fish- esp. the moor- hoover around the caulk on the bottom seams all the
time. I've noticed that torn up plant bits etc collect there. So I'm not
fearing any leafs forming from their nibbling!

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Fish eating the caulk!?