I have three. The intention was to have four, but one met an early demise. He was badly injured but something unknown, and didn't survive to tell me about it. :cry:

My jawfish don't go far from their burrows. At feeding time they will stray maybe 6-8" to grab Mysis, but that's it. They usually hover with their tails 1-2" away from the burrow entrances. Then the Kole tang dive bombs them, and their epic lightening fast reverse gear disappears them. :lol: The Kole tang gets a kick out of harassing them. I can always tell when they are hungry because they will poke out of their burrows further, like 2-3" instead. They are really entertaining.

maybe it's the lack of big fish in my reef, but mine usually like to hang out at least 6 - 8" into the water column, sometimes even taking pellets from the surface (16" above the top of the substrate). Although they are fond of just sticking their heads out of their burrows and looking at everything though.

My favorite behavior of theirs is watching them cover up their burrows for the night and open up again in the morning.

Mine has a small opening the his burrow and every night when he goes inside, he covers the opening with an old hermit shell. In the morning he pushes it back out. Its really cool. The first time I saw it though, I thought his burrow had collapsed! I moved the hermit shell and he freaked out!

I have had so many large fish over the years but not many have had the personality and character that this jawfish has. I can watch him for hours!

I'm really enjoying the small fish.

yeah, they have a lot of personality. When I upgrade I'd like to have a whole bunch. I've seen a few pictures of mated pairs hanging out together in their hole and it's super cute. Hopefully I can get some of that action going on - I think I have two males right now :P

Mine like to cover up with a few pieces of rock rubble I've supplied them with. They carefully arrange them every night, and in the morning they arrange them around their hole. If you move one of the pieces during the day, they'll go looking for it and bring it back, then stare at me as if saying "WTF did you do that for?"

Here's one of my little guys trying to eat a hawkfish:
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My guy with his friends..citron goby,neon goby and geometric hawkfish.Yesterday I placed a half cup of crushed coral at the end of the 12 gal tank and he moved it in one day.I keep giving him new building materials and he keeps on adding to his burrow.

Picked up a pair of Purple Firefish on the weekend. Very beautiful fish. Not timid at all, ate right away. Great fish.

One of them (cell phone picture, quality may not be great):

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Nice looking fish you have! I love that hawk! How is he with the other fish? I guess all hawks are known jumpers?

So far..he's still pretty shy...doesn't bother the other fish...they say it is more related to an anthias than a hawkfish.

http://www.petsolutions.com/Geometri...0L+C16229.aspx

I have a geometric pygmy hawk as well. I never knew hawkfish were considered jumpers, the ones I've had never showed any signs of wanting to jump. My geo hawk is very shy, he hid in my tank for 2 months before I saw him again after I first got him. Now he stays hidden about 90% of the time but at least I usually see him a few times a week for a few minutes each time.

In my experience they have been and I hear that all the time but it would depend on the species I guess?

I don't know too much about hawks. Only had 2 and both actually jumped :(