Blue Spotted jawfish diagnosis

[Crashnt24]

I’d like to have it in my DT but my salfin keeps nipping at its tail. Funny thing is that it doesn’t it only during feeding

Yeah, always a tough call. My foxface used to bully my blue spot during feedings. I would stick a pipe in to chase the foxface when he did this. Now he leaves him alone, I'd like to think I trained him this way lol

 

[Hincapiej4]

I should post a pic of mine...you'd be surprised how big these effers get.

 

[Hincapiej4]

Here you go!

 

[Not an IT guy]

Here you go!

Now I’m super jealous

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Here you go!

Help me out here - under blue light, it is really difficult to see, but that looks like a blue spot goby, not a jawfish. The notched dorsal fin is key I think.

Jay

 

[Not an IT guy]

Help me out here - under blue light, it is really difficult to see, but that looks like a blue spot goby, not a jawfish. The notched dorsal fin is key I think.

Jay

Good eye Jay. I didn’t see that.

 

[Hincapiej4]

Oh poop, I thought we were talking about the blue spotted watchman goby. I was so confused lol pie on my face sorry

Heres an old old old pic of him

 

[vetteguy53081]

Help me out here - under blue light, it is really difficult to see, but that looks like a blue spot goby, not a jawfish. The notched dorsal fin is key I think.

Jay

Just looking at thread and first thing I said is I have ne and its a goby. . LOL

 

[vetteguy53081]

This appears bacterial and almost represents Brooklynella in appearance guessing gram-negative. You may then ask, how did my fish get this or "catch this". There are many possibilities and some are :

- Poor environmental conditions.I If conditions are poor enough, the bacteria can bloom and overrun even the healthiest of fish and this can be from the place of purchase.
- secondary infection resulting from having another disease such as an open sore left by an infection such as cryptocaryon. The fish has been cured of the parasite, but the resultant infection from bacteria entersthe fish's body
- Poor nutrition
- Injury, such as open wounds, cuts or scrapes
- harrasment from tankmates
- Stress

Using the proper type of antibiotic is of the utmost importance and in this case, Maracyn 2 which is mincycline hydrochlor based and is a gram-negative bacteria treatment, as well as sufficiently absorbed through the skin to treat internal infections.
Other options are neomycin, chloramphenicol, nitrofurazone Furan-2 products, skin absorbed kanamycin sulfate-based antibiotics such as Kanacyn/K-Mycin

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Oh poop, I thought we were talking about the blue spotted watchman goby. I was so confused lol pie on my face sorry

Heres an old old old pic of him

Here is my story: I was reading a fish price list and saw, "Scrawled..." in the filefish/puffer section. I really needed a scrawled filefish for an exhibit so I called the collector right away. The conversation went like this, "Hi, I'd like to order the scrawled filefish". "you mean the scrawled cowfish?" "No - the filefish" "what?" "what?".....oh, nevermind (grin).

Jay

 

[ThRoewer]

BSJ are pretty hard to keep in captivity so take it slow I would be moving him all over the place I would take the tang and put it in the container and let the jawfish make himself at home if you cant do that put him in QT and make sure he is eating and eating a lot nutrition is extremely important.

It's actually one of the easier fish to keep once acclimated, it just has no business of being in a reef tank. These guys belong in a species or biotope tank with a bare minimum of 3 inches of gravel.
I have a spawning trio in a 29 gallon tank. The tank is filled with a lot of gravel, has a marineland 1200 pump for circulation and a simple daylight LED lightbulb for light and that's it. The tank temperature follows the temperature of the garage where I have my tanks. They are actually quite tolerant to quite low (16°C) and quite high temperatures (32°C) that on each end would not be well tolerated by most tropical reef fish.

 

[esther]

That's weird....are they really that hard to keep? I'm only asking because I have a HUGE one in my tank. He's paired with a pistol shrimp, and I'm not kidding...a lobster... They live together.

Photos please. Lol

 

[ThRoewer]

Blue Spot Jawfish (Opistognathus rosenblatti)

Almost precisely a year ago I decided to give Blue Spot Jawfish (Opistognathus rosenblatti) another try. I had a pair before but, unfortunately, they died in a tank crash in September 2017 while I was not at home. Those two I got from Live Aquaria and I assume I just got lucky that they turned...

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[Hincapiej4]

Photos please. Lol

Best I can get you