Determining male and female blue dot jawfish

[FrankieBones]

Well, from my research there is little information to determine a male from a female blue dot jawfish. I currently have two in a nano. Yes i said two!!! One is new and the other has been established for 9 months. I took an educated guess with the second fish because my lfs had 4. Well my first one is fully orange with blue dots and has a full head as i would say(the established bdj). When i first bought him his head was orange and a dark body which transformed to bright orange. I assumed he is a male because of the bright colors. The second fish is a darker head and smaller. My guess this a female. Well when the second jaw was released in the tank, there is no fighting at all. They actually alternate a main hole that they both made. If i see babies in a mouth of one down the road, i can come to a final conclusion. My question to whoever reads this, do you have experience with two bdj? Please comment. Pictures will be uploaded later tonight.

 

[Domboski]

I've tried pairing up Blue Dot Jaws for the last two years. Once I had two of them together for about 3-4 months. They shared a "den" much of that time. All of the sudden one turned on the other and they started fighting out of nowhere.

This doesn't mean it will happen to you just my experience. I hope you got lucky!

 

[Reef Reaper]

Best bet is to let nature decide. Buy 6 of them and let them pair of naturally. I know that is expensive, but that really the only way. I did that with tiger jawfish. good luck!

 

[FrankieBones]

picture of blue dots

Picture of freckles and blueberry

 

[h2o]

Looks like a pair , from what i saw theres a color differance between male/female, its gonna take more time for them to fall in love but best of luck keep the updates coming .

 

[FrankieBones]

So far so good with the two being tolerant of each other.

 

[FrankieBones]

2 months since my last post..... Jawsfish are very happy and actually swap holes... unfortunately i messed up their burrows because i to remove some fish that were being mean.. they did bury my beautful plate coral when i went away and came back with a dead maxima and dead plate coral, outside of that they are good citizens :fishhit:

 

[FrankieBones]

my clam and plate coral RIP