Blue Spotted Jawfish Experts, sound off

[Sshannon]

Mine is eating any frozen food I put in pretty well, but I do have to feed him with a baster to prevent my other fish from stealing the food. Everything they say about jumpers is TRUE! While I was on vacation last week, my fish sitter found him in the overflow box.

 

[shred5]

I have kept many jawfish, Right now I keep a rare red jawfish.
First thing with jawfish especially with the blue spotted is cover the tank it will jump out, this is not a if it will jump out.
Already been said blue spotted are a little more touchy..
They require different grains of sand and small rubble..
pvc caves sometimes work and sometimes do not..
Do not keep with other burrowing or sand moving fish. Some gobies will kick them out of their home and steel them.
Jawfish can be very shy and sometimes can be massively stressed out before finding a place to burrow and building a burrow.

 

[Squirrel_reefer]

I have kept many jawfish, Right now I keep a rare red jawfish.
First thing with jawfish especially with the blue spotted is cover the tank it will jump out, this is not a if it will jump out.
Already been said blue spotted are a little more touchy..
They require different grains of sand and small rubble..
pvc caves sometimes work and sometimes do not..
Do not keep with other burrowing or sand moving fish. Some gobies will kick them out of their home and steel them.
Jawfish can be very shy and sometimes can be massively stressed out before finding a place to burrow and building a burrow.

I feel that the aquarium I wanted to put him in isn't appropriate for a blue spot. The substrate is two larges bags of the Caribsea coarse grain sand and one large bag of the fine grain sand. there is no reef rubble available, but I do have a massive barnacle cluster that could work. Also my lid has a 1 1/2" gap where the overflow box and the return have to enter the top so I feel like with my luck... he'd find that spot and fly. I've already come home from work to find sushi on the floor once, I dont want to go through that again.

 

[shred5]

I feel that the aquarium I wanted to put him in isn't appropriate for a blue spot. The substrate is two larges bags of the Caribsea coarse grain sand and one large bag of the fine grain sand. there is no reef rubble available, but I do have a massive barnacle cluster that could work. Also my lid has a 1 1/2" gap where the overflow box and the return have to enter the top so I feel like with my luck... he'd find that spot and fly. I've already come home from work to find sushi on the floor once, I dont want to go through that again.

I have dry rock that I smash into rubble for mine. Even now he has his den settled he still loves when I drop him some rubble.
Most interesting fish you can own. He is constantly rebuilding.
Opistognathus castelnaui

 

[authentic]

Ive have had mine for years and moved him to my new 140 9 mo ago.great fish,never attempted to jump(tank s covered anyway)gets his fair share of food ,especially big pieces that my tangs and wrasses cant fit in their mouth.sometimes he will grab such a big piece that it could take him 5 min to swallow!downside is he will take live hermit crabs and build them into his wall.
sometimes they get up and walk away sometimes not.has always stayed in one burrow butthat can be my aquascape.