Jawfish are sweet shizz though. I prefer the Pearly over the Randalli though. Prettier. Mine have not had any jumping issues (knock on wood). My jawfish are quite entertaining as a trio. You may have issues keeping the 2 Anthias...may be better off to keep 1 or 6+. I'm also thinking the PBT will end up being too big of a fish for a mere 12.5" depth to the tank. That sure is shallow. Based on your stocking outline, I would trade the PBT for another 4 Anthias so you have 1 male and 5 females. Would be a sharp look. I think I would avoid big fish in that tank as they would look bulky since it is so shallow.

Oh ya, the order I would do; Jawfish, Anthias, then the rest doesn't really matter imo. They will all be fairly boisterous.

Like Christy said jawfish are awesome! There are many other types to look at including 'dusky', yellowhead/pearly, bluespot (these are NICE)... I just happen to hear of/see a lot of Randalli jumpers... higher frequency than other types.

if my pearly jawfish wasn't in an rsm he would have hit the floor more than once.

I think it helps that my Kole tang dive bombs the Jawfish. I think the Kole gets entertainment out of trying to catch the Jawfish, but they are waaaay too fast! Even at feeding time they don't risk going any further than like 6" from their burrows.

It may be a "bristletooth/goby type fish thang"...we have a chevron in the display at the shop that hates the orange spot diamond goby with a passion...

Well, back from Christmas holidays, and unfortunately I lost a frag and 1 of my clowns. The frag stn'd on me, and my tank sitters aren't sure how or why, but my clown got sucked into my pump (my fault as I didn't have the cover on the intake).. They figured a piece of mysis was getting sucked in and the clown followed it in to grab it... :( Other than that, everything else is looking ok after the transfer, SPS is going through some color swings, but still getting PE and no brown outs.

So pretty successful tank transfer.

Angel and Wrasse are finally out of hiding, and the cleaner shrimp is doing awesome after the transfer. Hope to get my sump baffles installed in the coming days and get this thing filled up and running 100%. :mrgreen::high5:

Oh man, that sucks about the losses, sorry to hear man. I hate going away for as much as two days for fear of the surprises waiting for my return.

Glad to hear everything else is working out though. :) Welcome back and stuff. :)

Thanks Tony, trust you had a nice christmas?


I felt 80% comfortable leaving for 10 days considering I had infamous fishytime (who did a WC on CHRISTMAS DAY for me!!) and my roommate looking after the tank. So it was in pretty good hands. :mrgreen:

Does suck about the clown as I'm pretty sure they had finally figured out who was gonna be the male and female.. Plus they were, well one still is, perfect Ocellaris specimens.

Scored me some new fish. I don't have a tank journal for my 115 so I don't know where to post pictures of them. :lol: Maybe I'll start a new thread in the pictures forum (doesn't make sense to start a journal now on a 5 year old tank whose days are theoretically numbered anyhow, but who knows).

A tanksitter who does waterchanges. :lol: You dogs!! I need me some tanksitters to do that down southways. :)

Picture sub-forum?!?! :der: