Yellow Headed Jawfish

the only bad experience ive really had from them is that they tend to drop the gravel onto my clams.anyway mines is dead,it jumped outa the tank

 

Had one in my system and in all honesty they are a very cool fish but would not put one back as they drop substrate all over the place and in a tank with high flow like yours could even leave the water looking merky. Rather look for a pair of twin spot gobies, not easy to find though.

 

They create an awful mess, there are 1 or 2 other types of sand sifting jawfish that do not swim up and around before they spit the sand out, but their names escape me, give me a few minutes, I will have to do a quick search to try and remember which ones they are.

 

Here are the twin spots, they are awsum and dont mess, just keep eyes open to find them. They are imported now and again.

 

This is the one I was thinking of...

Orange Diamond goby or Orange Spot goby - Valencienna puellaris

 

I don't, I just write it down on a piece of paper and say to the LFS dude - "I want 2 of these..." and show him the paper

 

The watchman gobies dig and tunnel under the sand but dont sift it like the jaw fish but are also awsum fish.

 

the Orange Diamond goby looks pretty cool

 

Yes, but the jawfish actually sifts the sand through its gills while looking for food, the watchman doesn't sift the sand for food they eat from the water colum.

 

Yeah they are very nice fish, I had 2 of them but lost them when I moved over to the new tank. Once I have finished with my new tank I will definitely be getting 2 more.

They are pretty placid fish, also like to dig tunnels and hide under rocks, but when they do sift the sand through their gills they don't swim up to the top of the tank and dump their load over all your precious corals I constantly had to blow loads of sand off my montipora's with a pump.

 

i noticed that they chuck the gravel all over the clams,corals and rockwork.but awsome fish