So I recently moved my cories to my 55 gallon tank (5 albinos and 5 peppered if anyone wondered). Everything is going great they love all the new room and they've acquired a new habit. While the tank is only semi-planted it does have a fair amount of hornwort, and as a result there is usually a decent bit of debris on the sand because of them. Well yesterday I noticed something funny, my cories have been moving all of debris onto one spot in the tank and then keeping the flame tetras away from it. So I'm just wondering if anyone else has ever had this happen, or do I just have cories with OCD.
Cleaning Cories
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nguyendetecting
"Swim along with the snorks"
they're trying to build a catapult and escape, and the tetras are trying to rat them out. better put a cover on that tank
DAVIDFBT
Extinct? Since when?
Are you sure it's just the current of the filter pushing the debris into the corner which just so happens to be the cory's territory? Just in case, bolt down the top. 
nguyendetecting
"Swim along with the snorks"
yea I agree on the current thing also. The fact that it's in the cories territory probably makes it looks like they are gathering and defending he pile. If the pile starts to take shape I'd start to worry. But cories are cool and do werid things
The current definitely makes way more sense. I'll have to keep an eye out for an escape attempts though.
Let us know if the pile takes any shape and you notice a dance of some sort. They might be evolving into a fish cult. You may notice Tetras missing as they start sacrificing them to the Water God to prevent the big hose from the sky from sucking them up or the sweeping net from removing them from their new habitat.
