sexing Blue Spot Jawfish

mseepman · #1 02-10-2009, 06:26 PM

What a beautiful fish. This is one that I would love to have but I already have enough problems with fish carpet (or hardwood) surfing.

tang daddy · #2 02-10-2009, 11:51 PM

Wow man looks like your fish settled right in.... You must have the magic touch!

I am planning to put one in my new 50g set up however I want to wait a year keep us posted on the pics.

And btw the acropora just to the left above his burrow is that a robins egg stag?

foreverfortune · #3 02-11-2009, 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by tang daddy

Wow man looks like your fish settled right in.... You must have the magic touch!

I am planning to put one in my new 50g set up however I want to wait a year keep us posted on the pics.

And btw the acropora just to the left above his burrow is that a robins egg stag?

yea that is the robin's egg, it has gotten a little darker than i like but should lighten up when i get my zeo dosing down.

Delphinus · #4 02-11-2009, 12:18 AM

I don't have any links handy, sorry, but I remember reading something about the shape of the "pupil" can be used to distinguish M/F at least in yellow-headed jawfish. Something like it's more round in one and more sesame seed shaped in another ... but I'm afraid that's all I remember, sorry

(Might be something you can do some searches on, if nothing else)

tang daddy · #5 02-11-2009, 12:31 AM

You should keep the robins egg up top as that one loves light!!

foreverfortune · #6 02-11-2009, 02:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Delphinus

I don't have any links handy, sorry, but I remember reading something about the shape of the "pupil" can be used to distinguish M/F at least in yellow-headed jawfish. Something like it's more round in one and more sesame seed shaped in another ... but I'm afraid that's all I remember, sorry

(Might be something you can do some searches on, if nothing else)

thanks, haven't read that anywhere yet, i will for sure try to google that.

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Originally Posted by tang daddy

You should keep the robins egg up top as that one loves light!!

i will keep that i mind, i still have my frags from both my coral master and fragalot orders sitting on my sand bed waiting for them to color up more, so i know where i would want them placed according to colors.

howdy20012002 · #7 02-11-2009, 04:04 AM

just to reconfirm that eggcrate is not enough. You should cover it at least with gutter guard over the eggcrate.
I have sadly killed a few blue spotted jawfish because I underestimated their ability to escape.
I just found one last week dried out on the ground and I have eggcrate with gutterguard over the tank. I had him for over a year...figured that I had finally figured out a way to keep it alive. I was sadly mistaken
I still don't know how it escaped.
good luck.
they are awesome fish to have...great character.
Neal

foreverfortune · #8 02-11-2009, 04:25 AM

thanks for the recommendations, seems that egg crate alone is not enough, i will now try to find some sort of mesh materials to cover the egg crates with.

my little bugger has decided that my home is now better than his heheh. he is now using my diy tunneling thanks to the jawfish home thread on here.