Yellowhead Jawfish

Yellow-headed jawfish are popular saltwater aquarium fish due to colorful body and unusual burrowing behavior. In the wild, Yellow-headed jawfish live in patches of sand and coral rubble around the edges of coral reefs in the Caribbean Sea and with no place to hide in these open areas, jawfish dig in, building burrows into the sand. In the reef aquarium, the Yellow-headed jawfish will burrow in the substrate and prefers a deeper sand bed with crushed coral and various grades of sand, at least 3 to 5 inches. They line the entrance with rocky rubble so it won't cave in, and they're forever shoveling out mouthfuls of sand. They sometimes raid a neighbor's burrow for choice pebbles and shells. The Yellowhead jawfish rarely venture far away from their burrows. These pearly, 3 to 4 inch fairy-like fish with light blue-green bodies and yellowish heads spend nearly all of their days plucking zooplankton from the current just above their burrow entrances or in the burrow with only their yellow