can I keep a jawfish?

[Moonstream]

I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to keep a jawfish of some kind, but my sand bed is only 3". I have seen many people who have the same problem that keep these fish anyways, and I was wondering if that might work for me?

I have a 75g display with a 40g breeder fuge, and a DSB in the fuge. my sand bed is about 3" and my fish are peaceful (besides my yellow wrasse, and she calms down quickly).

would this work?

 

[Moonstream]

bump!

 

[philter4]

Three inches is fine, more would be better, but not necessary. If it were my tank what I would do is put a flat stone or lg shell about 2 inches under the sand and add some rubble for it to use as a tunnel and after it gets acclimated it will use the shell as the roof of the burrow and be happy. It may take a while for it to be comfortable but in a couple of weeks, unless it finds a good piece of live rock, it will move its burrow to the shell. In the ocean they almost always have a lg flat rock as a roof to the burrow, how they find this rock I have no idea, if you look at the colonies they look like they are built right into the sand or mud.

 

[Moonstream]

thanks. I dont surrently have any rocks he might be able to use, but I am planning to make some more rubble from some small rocks I have no other use for. my rocks are setup in a way that he should be able to find a place between the glass and sand for a burrow.