Hey guys,
I'm having trouble with my Jawfish. Every night after lights out, he becomes anxious and leaves his burrow. He wanders around the tank hiding on top of the substrate and digging everything up. Despite having an established burrow, he re-digs new burrows each night and often ends up somewhere new.
We added a deep substrate that's 4-6" around the tank, deeper than the length of his body. We've reinforced all of our base rocks to allow him safe tunneling and added large amounts of small shells and coral rubble for him to build with (which he happily uses).
When I leave low-level lights on overnight, he stays in his burrow. But if I leave the lights off for the Corals photosynthesis cycle, he gets anxious and tears up the tank including attempts to jump (added a glass canopy to protect him). During the day he's happy, eats mysis/brine shrimp when fed and any copods/ampipods in the water column.
This is a recent problem that has only been happening the last 1-2 weeks since I changed the lighting cycle for our corals, with lights out from 10pm to 6am.
I have a 30 gal FOWLR aspiring to be a reef tank. We've had this system up for about 4 months with good water quality. We've introduced stronger lighting and two small coral frags two weeks ago.
- 20lbs of live rock, 6" live sand substrate.
- Yelllow Headed Jawfish
- 2 Paired True Percula Clowns
- Green Clown Goby
- 2 Scarlet Hermits, 2 Blue Leg Hermits, 1 Zebra Dwarf Hermit, 3 Peppermint Shimp, 5 Banded Trochus, 3 Nassarius, 5 Astrea
- 1" Green Leather Coral Frag
- 1" Green/Blue Ricordea Florida Frag
Water quality is good, we do small water changes 1-2 times a week. Current Readings:
- Salinity 1.025
- pH 8.3
- Ammonia: 0
- Nitrite: 0
- Nitrate: 0
- Phosphate: 0
Any advice is much appreciated. He seems anxious and we're pulling our hair out worrying about him and repairing his rampages on the substrates in the mornings.
Leaving moonlights on seems to keep him from misbehaving, but can't be healthy for coral growth.
I'm having trouble with my Jawfish. Every night after lights out, he becomes anxious and leaves his burrow. He wanders around the tank hiding on top of the substrate and digging everything up. Despite having an established burrow, he re-digs new burrows each night and often ends up somewhere new.
We added a deep substrate that's 4-6" around the tank, deeper than the length of his body. We've reinforced all of our base rocks to allow him safe tunneling and added large amounts of small shells and coral rubble for him to build with (which he happily uses).
When I leave low-level lights on overnight, he stays in his burrow. But if I leave the lights off for the Corals photosynthesis cycle, he gets anxious and tears up the tank including attempts to jump (added a glass canopy to protect him). During the day he's happy, eats mysis/brine shrimp when fed and any copods/ampipods in the water column.
This is a recent problem that has only been happening the last 1-2 weeks since I changed the lighting cycle for our corals, with lights out from 10pm to 6am.
I have a 30 gal FOWLR aspiring to be a reef tank. We've had this system up for about 4 months with good water quality. We've introduced stronger lighting and two small coral frags two weeks ago.
- 20lbs of live rock, 6" live sand substrate.
- Yelllow Headed Jawfish
- 2 Paired True Percula Clowns
- Green Clown Goby
- 2 Scarlet Hermits, 2 Blue Leg Hermits, 1 Zebra Dwarf Hermit, 3 Peppermint Shimp, 5 Banded Trochus, 3 Nassarius, 5 Astrea
- 1" Green Leather Coral Frag
- 1" Green/Blue Ricordea Florida Frag
Water quality is good, we do small water changes 1-2 times a week. Current Readings:
- Salinity 1.025
- pH 8.3
- Ammonia: 0
- Nitrite: 0
- Nitrate: 0
- Phosphate: 0
Any advice is much appreciated. He seems anxious and we're pulling our hair out worrying about him and repairing his rampages on the substrates in the mornings.
Leaving moonlights on seems to keep him from misbehaving, but can't be healthy for coral growth.