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Question: Weird stone like pebbles in tank.

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Hey guys,
Today when feeding my little axies I noticed some weird pebble like things in there tank all of them white and very hard. The tank is all fine sand and when Iset the tank up i put no pebbles in there. Everything else in there is a fake plant,hide place and the filter and thermometer. They both seem really happy and swim around like normal.. Also the toilet habbits are normal too. Just wondering if anyone knows.. I thought maybe eggs? But they are so hard when I touch them and they are scattered all over the tank.. Thanks!
 
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Possibly compressed sand that was eaten and compacted into pellets via digestion? Try breaking 1 up and see if it crumbles down into sand again.
 
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Look at the bases of the fake plants....I bought some that were on a sort of glued together block of small stones and over time they separated...into very small hard pieces
 
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Another thought...did you raise them yourself...or could they have at some point been on a substrate containing what you are one seeing...so they could be pooing it out. I recently bought a Juvie from an aquatic centre...on a bare bottom there...but he has been sick a few times and brought up pebbles the size of my little finger nail.
 
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The plant base is new and isn't made up of pebbles just sand. I tried breaking it up and it didn't do anything at all and sounded like a pebble when I tapped it on the side. I got them from an aquatic centre, the base of the tank in there had nothing. But there seems to be more this morning than there was last night, but some poo too.. Hmm...
 
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