Hey guys I was referred here from a member of nano-reef, he told me I should join this little club! So aside from posting pictures i'm not sure if there are any other things to do to join?
Anyways here goes, I set up a 46 gallon bowfront that was given to me specifically to house 2 Bluespot Jawfish. It has about 25lbs of liverock and around 6" (on average) of live sand. The 2 bs's i purchased had been at the LFS for around 3 weeks or so in a display refugium with a dsb. They were 2 that survived out of 5 or so. So after waiting patiently to gauge their health i took them home.
After acclimation and a short period of figuring out their new home they both started burrowing, the burrow on the left has remained but the one on the right has moved to the base of the rock as you can see in some photos. It has been amazing to watch these 2 do what they do!
One question for you bluespot guys, I don't know if they are male/female i have seen no signs of that yet, obviously i would love for them breed but that was not the purpose of setting this tank up. Anyways one thing i have noticed is they have been sharing/swapping burrows, i can tell the 2 apart by some of their markings and it seems every other day or so they have swapped burrows, is this normal, anyone experience this?
I have seen no signs of aggression between the 2 other than when i first put them in there was some jaw flaring when one got close to the first's burrow but once they both settled in it's been nothing but peaceful.
Ok pics and video for you guys!
The first burrows
Full-Body-Shot
Peeking around
Both peeking around
Ugh i think i ate too many mysis shrimp!
I think this ones on steroids or something
And a video (not the best quality, working on that) of them eating, the video picture is reversed because it was a laptop webcam, so don't mind that.
YouTube - Bluespot Jawfish Feeding