Darwin Jawfish eating fish?

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Recently picked up a Darwin Jawfish as I love its rarity and personality. From researching online, there is not much information other then they get very large and the only jawfish I know that is listed as semi-aggressive. Even with that, I thought it was worth the risk. Over the past couple weeks, I have added rock, rubble, and about 30 lbs of more sand to allow some deeper areas in the back that are about 5-6" deep.

When picking him up at the LFS, when trying to catch him, he bit at the net pretty hard which was suppressing from a jawfish in my opinion. At home, he took some time to finally find a spot, and I had to help encourage him and start building an area for him to call home. He seems to be a pretty picky eater only really eating jumbo mysis and krill. I will see him eat other froze and sometimes pellets but will spit some of them out.

He has a lot of personality and is great to watch. However, I had (yes, past tense) two storm clowns about a inch and half in length. After about the first week, I noticed one clown missing and could not find in the overflow/sump or anywhere. The one storm missing, also would sleep on the sand bed near the Darwin's den. Another week went by, and now my second clown is missing.

I do not or did not see any remnants of the clown in the tank or on the sand bed.

Has anyone had any experience with Darwin Jawfish? And would they eat a small clownfish?
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A fish will usually eat anything that it can swallow. And often fish can swallow bigger things than one would expect. I don’t know how big your jawfish is but I bet he can swallow an impressively large object or fish.
 
He is probably about 5” right now and when his mouth is opened. It is about the circumstance of a nickel.
A fish will usually eat anything that it can swallow. And often fish can swallow bigger things than one would expect. I don’t know how big your jawfish is but I bet he can swallow an impressively large object or fish
 

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