Euphyllia
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So as you probably know I recently purchased a nice pair of pearly jawfish. I'm worried about one of them and the problem below will be confusing without the following information...
Jawfish A. - The one who originally made the hole that they both live in now.
Jawfish B. - The one that lived in the hole in the rock but then moved in with Jawfish A.
Here's the problem...
So when I put them in the tank Jawfish A. decided to make a hole when Jawfish B. decided to hide in a hole in a rock. The next day I fed them live brine shrimp which they both gladly accepted a large amount of. That night I fed them again and they, again, ate a lot. I left the room and came back about a minute and a half later and looked in Jawfish A's hole. I saw two faces. Jawfish B worked quickly and effectively on another tunnel breaking off from their main hole while Jawfish A did nothing but lounge around on his side of the hole. Jawfish B finished her side of the hole in about thirty minutes so I turned the lights off and they went to sleep facing each other. This morning when I woke up Jawfish A was gone. I found him a few minutes after the search started curled up in the back corner. I thought he had got kick out of the hole by Jawfish B and that they probably got into a fight during the night. When Jawfish A saw my shadow, he darted into a new hole which he must have built over night. The new hole connected to their other hole so now they had a main hole area (which is in the entrance right in the center), a left connection, a right connection, and a back connection. Jawfish A has been hiding in the back connection since I left this morning and still was in it when I got home. He still is in it right now. Jawfish B is perfectly fine, not harassing Jawfish A, working on their hole, and cleaning their hole. I fed them and my clowns a bit of live brine shrimp. At this both Jawfish A & Jawfish B darted out and hovered over their hole and ate every single brine shrimp that floated by. After eating they retreated to their hole. Jawfish A went to the back connection out of sight and Jawfish B worked on (and still currently is) making their main hole deeper. I'm worried about Jawfish B and why he isn't doing anything to help. He looks like a lifeless body just sitting in one spot not moving. Does one of the fish in a Jawfish pair normally do nothing and make the other do all the work or is something else happening? He looks identical to the other Jawfish (nothing is wrong with his gills, mouth, eyes, or body) and the only way I can tell the Jawfish apart is by their personality. Their personalities make a HUGE difference in telling them apart so I'm 100% positive which fish is which. Does anybody have any ideas what may be going on?
Jawfish A. - The one who originally made the hole that they both live in now.
Jawfish B. - The one that lived in the hole in the rock but then moved in with Jawfish A.
Here's the problem...
So when I put them in the tank Jawfish A. decided to make a hole when Jawfish B. decided to hide in a hole in a rock. The next day I fed them live brine shrimp which they both gladly accepted a large amount of. That night I fed them again and they, again, ate a lot. I left the room and came back about a minute and a half later and looked in Jawfish A's hole. I saw two faces. Jawfish B worked quickly and effectively on another tunnel breaking off from their main hole while Jawfish A did nothing but lounge around on his side of the hole. Jawfish B finished her side of the hole in about thirty minutes so I turned the lights off and they went to sleep facing each other. This morning when I woke up Jawfish A was gone. I found him a few minutes after the search started curled up in the back corner. I thought he had got kick out of the hole by Jawfish B and that they probably got into a fight during the night. When Jawfish A saw my shadow, he darted into a new hole which he must have built over night. The new hole connected to their other hole so now they had a main hole area (which is in the entrance right in the center), a left connection, a right connection, and a back connection. Jawfish A has been hiding in the back connection since I left this morning and still was in it when I got home. He still is in it right now. Jawfish B is perfectly fine, not harassing Jawfish A, working on their hole, and cleaning their hole. I fed them and my clowns a bit of live brine shrimp. At this both Jawfish A & Jawfish B darted out and hovered over their hole and ate every single brine shrimp that floated by. After eating they retreated to their hole. Jawfish A went to the back connection out of sight and Jawfish B worked on (and still currently is) making their main hole deeper. I'm worried about Jawfish B and why he isn't doing anything to help. He looks like a lifeless body just sitting in one spot not moving. Does one of the fish in a Jawfish pair normally do nothing and make the other do all the work or is something else happening? He looks identical to the other Jawfish (nothing is wrong with his gills, mouth, eyes, or body) and the only way I can tell the Jawfish apart is by their personality. Their personalities make a HUGE difference in telling them apart so I'm 100% positive which fish is which. Does anybody have any ideas what may be going on?
