Blue Spot Jawfish - MIA

[elfloyd]

My BS Jawfish is missing in action! Got him six weeks ago... very active, eating as he should, and excavating all over the front and sides of the tank. Two weeks ago he's no where to be seen!

I have a canopy and egg crate covering the tank... and I've looked on the floor all around the tank. He's not in the overflow... the sock... or the sump. My live rock is setting on the bottom of the tank so no chance of an avalanche.

I think the meanest thing in the tank are two emerald crabs (that I haven't seen in months), and none of the fish are big enough to cause a problem (six line, clowns, long-nose butterfly, flame angle, royal gamma, fire fish, PB tang, wheeler goby, and a mandarin)

He disappeared the day after I had my hands in the tank to clean the glass.

Is it normal for jaw fish to hide for extended periods of time?

 

[elfloyd]

Not what I wanted to hear!

(The dawgs did good yesterday!)

 

[oz]

dawgdude;423501 wrote: ive had a blue spotted jawfish go straight through eggcrate that was wrapped in landscaping mesh. I thought there was no way he could get through. I found him shriveled up on top of the screen. hope he turns up.

+1

 

[dons]

I had one that managed to slip through some mesh covering my overflow. Got past the filter socks and managed to get caught in the head of the return pump in my sump. there was no guard or cover on the pump as the size of the pump and the design of the sump didn't allow for room to stop things like that from happening. I was sure I had done everything to keep him in the tank!!!

 

[elfloyd]

No one is stating their BS JF has returned from MIA... not good.

My return line goes into a tee... most of the flow goes into a filter sock, the rest goes into my refugium. There is a ball valve in that line and the line terminates into a spray head. Haven't looked there.

 

[theplantman]

My bluespot lived in the overflow area on our Solana for a month while I found the right materials to plug up every escape route larger than 3/16" from the main tank. Every night he would find a way out of the display and go over the wall into the rear filtration areas and he hid in multiple areas, live rock, bottom chambers, you name it. So I left him back there until I could seal all possible escape routes. He still trys to leap from the tank at least once a night, they are definitely night time roamers.

I would check all your over flow lines, sumps, anywhere outside your display that he can get to no matter how difficult it is to get to. Don't give up hope yet. I also found my banded goby back there hiding after a six month vacation from the display, healthy as can be.

Chances are if you Bluespot is not coming out at feeding time, then it is not in the display. Mine feeds fearlessly in open water at every feeding.