Blue spot jawfish

[Chipie]

I bought a blue spot jawfish a while ago and lost it after a few weeks to what looks like bsjf disease.

Now, i would love to get another one but i'm afraid it will die of the same thing too. I'm wondering if people are still loosing their blue spot jawfishes like a while ago or is survival rate better than it was?
I might decide to get a pearly instead but it's the blue spot i really want

 

[unareefer]

I bought two bluespots from blue zoo aquatics three months ago, and they are both doing excellently. I can say two things about this. The first thing, I was lucky to get two fish that made it through the collection process without acquiring infections. The second thing is rather hypothetical, but I'll throw it out there. Blue spot jawfish are usually found a little deeper in the wild than other reef fish. They also have colder currents flowing through their natural habitat. My hypothesis is if you take a fish that is used to a water temp. in the mid sixties to seventy, and throw it into water that is always upper seventies to low eighties, infections are bound to happen. I keep my aquarium in the low seventies, and everything does fine. I only have soft corals, clownfish, and blue dots, and I wouldn't recommend this temp for a more sophisticated reef tank. My best suggestion for getting another blue dot would be species only, deep sandbed with live rock, lower temp.

 

[rpjaws74]

i bought two bluespots from blue zoo aquatics three months ago, and they are both doing excellently. I can say two things about this. The first thing, i was lucky to get two fish that made it through the collection process without acquiring infections. The second thing is rather hypothetical, but i'll throw it out there. Blue spot jawfish are usually found a little deeper in the wild than other reef fish. They also have colder currents flowing through their natural habitat. My hypothesis is if you take a fish that is used to a water temp. In the mid sixties to seventy, and throw it into water that is always upper seventies to low eighties, infections are bound to happen. I keep my aquarium in the low seventies, and everything does fine. I only have soft corals, clownfish, and blue dots, and i wouldn't recommend this temp for a more sophisticated reef tank. My best suggestion for getting another blue dot would be species only, deep sandbed with live rock, lower temp.

+1

 

[alton]

If I could add something the the above post only buy younger BSJF, no different then any other fish smaller is better.