hawkfish

[akfirefighter]

Does anyone have a hawkfish? Yesterday I noticed mine diving into my rock like it was attacking something. what would it be going for? Have any of you expierenced this before?

 

[bobby]

They are preditors and wait on top of rocks to attack their pray, hence the name hawkfish. I'm npt real sure what they will eat, but a guess would be it went after a crab or pod or something, but yeah when they swoop their after pray.

 

[Bifferwine]

Hawkfish aren't reef safe, and they will eat inverts, like Bobby said probably a shrimp or crab.

 

[akfirefighter]

So I should take him out before I get some corals?

 

[Bifferwine]

I don't think he'd bother corals. But if you want to keep shrimp or crabs, he'd probably eat them.

 

[hibye]

probbaly a pod. what kind is he/she?

 

[yote]

Yep,Hawkfish are predators.But they are a cool fish.
You just wont be able to keep any shrimp with them.

 

[reeffreak]

A hawkfish is an ambush predators.They do best in fish only tanks with fish bigger than it.Mine ate my 5'' Maroon clownfish,bastard!...keep it well fed.

 

[winyfrog]

I have a flame hawk in my 850 he will eat small shrimps but doesn't mess with my bigger shimp, I put in oh about 80.00 worth of peppermint shrimp to help me control aiptasia and well he enjoyed a good meal along with the mystery wrasse and labouti wrasse. But depending on the type of hawk and his size you should be able to enjoy him for a bit.

I have a arc eye in my 180 and I know that I will not be able to put shrimps in there and I will be replacing crabs more often but I like him.

What kind did you get?