Jawfish questions

[shinobi9119]

I am looking to buy a jawfish and I have a couple questions.
I have been told the pearly jawfish needs 5 iinches of sand to burrow, and others only need three. Is it true or would a pearly do fine in 3-4 inches of sand?

 

[shinobi9119]

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how bout this, anyone have any experience with keeping a jawfish?

 

[snakeblitz33]

In order to keep the jawfish for it's entire life, you should have a sandbed of at least 6".
They are very hard to keep, IMHO, however many people have had great success with them.

 

[bang guy]

Originally Posted by Shinobi9119
http:///forum/post/2822662
I am looking to buy a jawfish and I have a couple questions.
I have been told the pearly jawfish needs 5 iinches of sand to burrow, and others only need three. Is it true or would a pearly do fine in 3-4 inches of sand?
It will do fine with just a couple inches of sand. Just provide some pebbles for it to line its burrow. Better yet, make sure it has a rock to burrow under.
Be careful with the top, they are notorious carpet surfers. Do NOT underestimate their ability to find a hole to jump through.

 

[vonodie1]

I didn't answer because I do not have one -yet! I had one, but he didn't make it.
I have a 29g biocube and what I have done is made 1" pvc tunnels in anticipation of getting one. My sand bed just covers the 1" pvc. I am not at home or I would post a picture of the tunnel before putting the sand in when I set it up. If you are interested I will post some of them this evening.

 

[groupergenius]

Originally Posted by Bang Guy
http:///forum/post/2823331
It will do fine with just a couple inches of sand. Just provide some pebbles for it to line its burrow. Better yet, make sure it has a rock to burrow under.
Be careful with the top, they are notorious carpet surfers. Do NOT underestimate their ability to find a hole to jump through.
What Bang said....but try to get a fairly flat rock. More surface to sand and not much top weight.
I have acrylic lids I made for my tank that had a jawfish in it. The lids had 3/8 holes as gas exchange and (1) 3/4" hole to put your finger in to lift the lid. My blue spot jawfish found one of those 3/4" holes and jumped through.

They are BIGTIME jumpers and great and finding a spot.