cinnamongirl
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I have a yellowhead jawfish (name: GIJoe) that has not ever been happy for longer than a month at a time. Now I'm starting to become worried about his health.
I bought him mail order about 8 months ago. Well, when he arrived the box was way too cold inside. After acclimation, he lay on the bottom of the tank all night, curled up and barely breathing.
In the morning he was gone. About 3 weeks later, I tried another jawfish (name: Pvt Ryan), who worked out perfectly. He built a bunker exactly where I thought he would, under one of the rock structures.
Two weeks later, GIJoe shows up alive! He not only is alive, he's back with a vengence. He makes a complete mess of my tank, sand everywhere, and doesn't dig under a rock. Instead he digs right in the middle of the bed, and obviously isn't getting anywhere.
I move some larger rocks in the middle so he has something to dig under and he's fine for about a month. (never mind that he's jumped into the overflow 3 times by now) After a month, he creates another mess, jumps into the overflow a few more times.
I decide to move him out of there to my hospital tank. I have two seahorses the 46, and he's just disturbing them way too much. So I put the appropriate substrate in the hospital tank, and he's been there for about 5 months, with the same behavior. He's good for a month, builds a home, then devistates the tank looking for another home.
For the past 2 weeks, he's not moved back into his bunkers, and he's starting to look ragged His color is fading and his fins are ragged
I don't know what to do for him
Params are all fine. The hospital tank is only a 10-gal, and it's downstairs where there is very little traffic at all. Could he be lonely?
Any suggestions?
:hmm1:
I bought him mail order about 8 months ago. Well, when he arrived the box was way too cold inside. After acclimation, he lay on the bottom of the tank all night, curled up and barely breathing.
In the morning he was gone. About 3 weeks later, I tried another jawfish (name: Pvt Ryan), who worked out perfectly. He built a bunker exactly where I thought he would, under one of the rock structures.
Two weeks later, GIJoe shows up alive! He not only is alive, he's back with a vengence. He makes a complete mess of my tank, sand everywhere, and doesn't dig under a rock. Instead he digs right in the middle of the bed, and obviously isn't getting anywhere.
I move some larger rocks in the middle so he has something to dig under and he's fine for about a month. (never mind that he's jumped into the overflow 3 times by now) After a month, he creates another mess, jumps into the overflow a few more times.
I decide to move him out of there to my hospital tank. I have two seahorses the 46, and he's just disturbing them way too much. So I put the appropriate substrate in the hospital tank, and he's been there for about 5 months, with the same behavior. He's good for a month, builds a home, then devistates the tank looking for another home.
For the past 2 weeks, he's not moved back into his bunkers, and he's starting to look ragged His color is fading and his fins are ragged
I don't know what to do for him Params are all fine. The hospital tank is only a 10-gal, and it's downstairs where there is very little traffic at all. Could he be lonely?
Any suggestions?
:hmm1:
jawfish in the 46g seahorse tank and one flighty :crazy1: jawfish in the 10g downstairs.
