Yellow headed jawfish in Fluval evo?

[spamvicious]

I have a well established Fluval evo 13.5 gallons with two very small clowns. I was thinking of adding a yellow headed jawfish. Would it be ok?

I’ve got plenty of sand and would add some crushed coral pieces too. I have a bta that the clowns sleep in.

 

[James M]

Tanks is too small, pretty much maxed out with the 2 clowns

 

[alepop1211]

I have a well established Fluval evo 13.5 gallons with two very small clowns. I was thinking of adding a yellow headed jawfish. Would it be ok?

I’ve got plenty of sand and would add some crushed coral pieces too. I have a bta that the clowns sleep in.

I'd lean towards no.
My reasoning:
Yellow headed jawfish can hit 4". I usually see them at about 3" in captivity but it's still a decent sized fish.
They are also somewhat territorial in protection of their burrow and I don't know if a 13.5 gallon has enough room for both the jawfish to guard the burrow and the clowns to guard the anemone.

It just feels a bit too small for the risk.

 

[alepop1211]

I have a well established Fluval evo 13.5 gallons with two very small clowns. I was thinking of adding a yellow headed jawfish. Would it be ok?

I’ve got plenty of sand and would add some crushed coral pieces too. I have a bta that the clowns sleep in.

Also, you may want to add some crushed coral anyways, my clowns play with crushed coral a lot.

 

[spamvicious]

Fair enough thanks for the replies. I’ll just have to wait for the clowns to grow. They’re only about 3cm at the moment which makes the tank look empty apart from the corals.

 

[I never finish anythi]

Maybe consider a small blenny.

 

[spamvicious]

To illustrate how small the clown fish are :face-with-tears-of-joy:

 

[spamvicious]

Maybe consider a small blenny.

I was looking at a tail spot blenny?

 

[Tahoe61]

Nope.

 

[Dr_Orpheus]

I think once it starts to get bigger it'll start to get pretty mean in a tank that size regardless of the inhabitants already in there.

Also, you're gonna need somewhat of a more full rock scape with more caves and what not (at least somewhere) for a jawfish than what's in that photo in my opinion.

 

[Reefgirly]

To illustrate how small the clown fish are :face-with-tears-of-joy:

What is the green that you have growing on the black? I have the same tank and want to do that.

 

[UncommonSense]

Agreed, the tank is around 1/3 of minimum size for a jawfish…

They also do like to jump, so keep that in mind when designing a system for one!

 

[Kasrift]

Agree with all the posts, from my readings I believe all sand sifting types of gobies, Jawfish, or other sand movers want more real estate to sift through.

I think you could get away with a small sand based goby/pistol shrimp pair like a Yasha goby and Randall's pistol.