blue spot jaw fish

[lanacane214]

i bought a blue spot jaw fish last week ,he was doing good ,he spend 2 days diging his den ,very active, eating good,when i checked his den in the morning this was in there,a pistol shrimp the jawfish was in the other corner of the tank after been evicted.he was diging a new hole.when i came home from work i didnt see him a havent seen him in 2 days.is it possible the pistol shrimp killed him and ate him ?:eat: if so how can catch the pistol shrimp? i am so mad i loved that fish!!!

 

[pdnyc69]

it is likelt that he jumped out of you tank, jumped into an overflow, dug a hole behind rock that you cant see. i have 2 of them and sometimes the disappear for weeks. you just have to keep a mesh net or something to keep them from winding up on the floor. good luck

 

[Josh]

Check the floor.

 

[aznt1217]

I seriously hope this ends well.... He definitely went Air Jordan on you but where I don't know... or he could be somewhere behind your rockwork.

 

[lanacane214]

i checked everywhere,he didnt jump out i would think a 4" dead fish on the floor would smell real bad,no smell,i guess nobody thinks the pistol shrimp had anything to do with it?

 

[rookie07]

fish dont smell that bad when they get out of tank and die

 

[aznt1217]

You checked the overflow?

The pistol shrimp clearly had something to do with it, only in the sense that it scared the BSJ. Your CUC could've eaten him up but you would notice weird activity from your inverts.

But like I said your Jawfish could be in a different hole under all your rocks and you just don't see him.

 

[DrCooper]

I have had 3 fish go MIA on me and never any idea what happened. The CUC would of taken care of him in the tank.
My tank is closed top so the fish didn't jump out.

It is the way of the aquarium sadly!

hopefully it ends well for you. Try feeding and see if he comes out!

 

[Reef Reaper]

He probably is hiding. I have nine jawfishes and one of them is a blue spotted. I would get rid of the shrimp. Good Luck and keep us posted. PM if you need any info.

 

[Cibo]

this worked for me!

http://www.thatpetplace.com/pet/prod/217586/product.web

If you want to get rid of it I'll take it! Just hold off feeding for 1 or 2 day put the trap where the shrimp hangs out and cross you fingers, I would have let you borrow mine but I droped it and it broke!!!

good luck

 

[tynman]

Its funny you say this cause I have one and last night I was looking for mine and I couldnt find him so I asked my wife if she saw him during the day like she told me " I have nothing better to do but watch your damn fish" lol but she did say she saw him yesterday or the day before.. For a long shot she says would he be in the black thing(return) I said I dont think so but let me look.. Well he sure was there and alive too now it only took about an hour or 2 to get him out.. He is back in his den today.. But he was stressed yesterday.. Good luck.

 

[frank arriaga]

I had three end up on the floor. I have 30" deep tank with eggcrate on it.

 

[lanacane214]

I found him, took 2 weeks but i found him,he jumped out and was between 2 pieces of wood well hidden,he looked pretty good for a dead fish,i am so pissed he was doing real good.i had no cover on the tank all my fault im pissed:supermad:

 

[chanman]

sorry for your loss but yeah..no cover + easily freaked out fish =/. You should see what they act like even with the cover on, they scour/peek their heads above the water and constantly tried to jump out. My jawfish went through that 2-3 times in the past year due to my goby taking his house every now and then. He finally was fedup and dug a hole in the back where..nofood+stress and died.

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Sorry

 

[James983]

Mine was always jumping in the overflow. As much as they are a pain to keep, I love the damn things.

 

[Mikei70]

Sorry about your jawfish.

A while back I had a fish only 75 gallon, and inside was a beautiful blue-ribbon eel. I had him for a while and he actually lived through a complete crash and even ate dried krill.

Anyhow, I came home from work one day and he was gone. I had a glass top and used that plastic trim in the back as best I could, but he must have squeezed out. Only problem was, I couldn't find him anywhere. Not behind the tank, under the couch. I started wondering how far he could have crawled.

About an hour later, I noticed the top of the emperor filter move. Turns out all 3 feet of him was up in there, doing fine.