Aquaculture Pearly Jawfish Mouthful of... (1 Viewer)

[jjwhiteboy]

I have a quad set of Pearly Jaws and 2 of them have made a home. Meet the kids...

http://vid1132.photobucket.com/albums/m566/jjwhiteboy94/pearly%20jawfish%20holding_zpscojjkj3b.mp4

Hope the video comes up if not here is a pic at least

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Any advise from someone who has been successful with these? Anyone have success using frozen rotifers when daddy spitz them out?:barf:

Any advise is appreciated Thank You in advance.

 

[mwilliam]

Wow that's awesome! Sorry, I have no advice/experience here, but that is an excellent video. Following along for sure.

 

[deneed4spd]

Havent heard anyone before had jawfish breed in their tank. That is awesome man!!

How deep of a sand bed do you have to host those things?

Now you need to start the same thing with blue head jaw fish!

 

[Jager]

that is awesome!

catching the hatchlings may prove difficult i bet

any idea on their timing, when did you first notice them?

 

[Riley]

Very cool, Jason!

I saw this article on MBI looking for breeding journals for these. It's from 1994, but maybe you'll still find something of value:

http://www.instantocean.com/ocean-of-knowledge/seascope/~/media/UPG/Files/Instant%20Ocean/SeaScope/Volume%2011_1994.ashx

 

[jjwhiteboy]

Thanks Riley. I first noticed this about a week ago. This tank I set up for these has a retaining wall of rocks from the middle back to the front corners. The wall is about 4" tall and filled with very small rubble and Fiji pink sand. The tank houses various dart gobies ,a mckoskers, 4 jawfish, 1 great white shark, and a dozen nassarius snails. It is a macro&liverock tank with no coral. I perform 10-20% weekly changes and it is a 75g with a single 48" t8 suspended 2 ft off the surface.

P.s. Jk about the great white shark

 

[deneed4spd]

Go to the 34 min mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CqgIIQn0Mo

 

[Chad Vossen]

We can use one of my larval traps to collect fry when they hatch. I just need a couple weeks to get pods back on line and I can raise them easily. We can split the babies (assuming you want 50+ jawfish babies)

 

[deneed4spd]

Would love to buy 6 of those babies! I read somewhere that a jawfish only lives 2 years. I am thinking of challenging that if we could get babies! Got a dedicated jawfish tank being setup soon.

 

[jjwhiteboy]

so far I havent seen babies only multiple batches of eggs in the mouth. not sure if they are eating them right after hatch or what. Let you guys know if I get passed the first stage.