Yellow headed Jawfish

Heidi · 01-27-2011, 08:21 PM

Here is my new favorite fish! My Sophia cutely named him Jolly. After spending a couple of days digging and hiding except for when he came out to eat, he settled on this spot. Perfect viewing from my chair!

I love how he reenters his hole too cute!

My pictures could be better with an slr, but these will do for now hope you enjoy!

Chris · 01-27-2011, 08:30 PM

Very beautiful fish, one of my favorite jawfish for sure

rmalone · 01-27-2011, 09:01 PM

I love the jawfish also. Make sure that tank is flat sealed though, jawfish will jump, not might jump, they WILL jump so be carefull.

MyNemesis · 01-27-2011, 09:12 PM

Success! It's great after the jawfish settles in and is properly camped out. It's a very entertaining fish for sure. Of course, there are some drawbacks, like the decision to build a fort somewhere else and every rock in the aquarium moves, corals tumble - usual reef tank stuff. You may want to spread a handful of small shells or rubble near the entrance and watch the engineer go to work, building his home underneath your reef. Enjoy!

Heidi · 01-27-2011, 09:15 PM

It is rigged up kinda ugly for now (screen and strong magnets) but I have ordered one of Jimflies mesh covers so that should keep him in but I hear that they like to look for any holes in your top and go for that so I guess if he's gonna jump, he's gonna jump. It'll make my kids pretty sad too.

Sir Patrick · 01-27-2011, 09:53 PM

Awsome little fish!

Heidi · 02-18-2011, 09:09 AM

So I did a water change yesterday and all that other weekly fun stuff, cleaning pumps, testing levels, stiring up sand, pulling algea etc. The water is always a mess after unill the next morning. Well when the lights came on today the water looked like CRAP. I was freaking out cause I am vodka dosing and using lime water so I thought my chem must have been out of wack somehow. The water was cloudy and lots of white specks everywhere. I took a bunch of samples out and was going to run all my chem tests again just to be safe. Well while I was doing this I noticed a huge pile of sand over by one of the powerheads . . . guess who is building, and by the looks of it has been all night, a new little vacation home! Jolly! I love you but you are an @sshole. . . you couldn't pick a spot to spit sand away from my powerhead .. . come on now! oh well still love him!

cg5071 · 02-18-2011, 10:10 AM

LOL, I am wanting a pair myself. Did he come from Happy Coral?

Heidi · 02-18-2011, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by cg5071

LOL, I am wanting a pair myself. Did he come from Happy Coral?

haha funny you should ask cg! Well it is a long story but lets just say the guy there helped me get Jolly, however I bought him at Bluefish in GR. I know this is a fish Happy Coral can get if you want one, or two. Sorry to hear about your fish death in the other thread.