Hawkfish?
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4FordFamily
Tang, Angel, and Wrasse Nerd!
The biggest risk in this order: Falco, flame, longnose. In truth, the flame not longnose is likely to eat the shrimp, depending on the size of the hawkfish. Anything is possible, though!
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LetItReef
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Thanks @4FordFamily!
eatbreakfast
Fish Nerd
The tailspot blenny will be fine. IME I've found full grown longnose hawks capable of taking larger prey than a fulp grown flame.
nautical_nathaniel
Indecision may or may not be my problem.
I'd go longnose, even though mine is only 2 inches long, he shows no aggressive tendencies. He does show amazing personality, however, and loves to sit and watch me from his little frag rack that I keep in the tank with only one frag on it for him to sit on. He is definitely one of the neatest fish I have ever kept!
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LetItReef
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This is what happened to my shrimp
OH BOY! Thanks for the info.
CanadianReefer
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I have a flame and a longnose. My longnose is a model citizen. My flame, on the other hand, was nicknamed Murderous Murdock and has since been relocated to another tank. Not only did he wipe out all my cleaner shrimp, one of my fire shrimp and wounded another... but he also ate my barnacle blenny and a dragonette... then went after my randall goby, but was unsuccessful. He killed snails, crabs (even my poor porcelain crab for kicks - didn't even eat it in the end). He started attacking one of my clownfish, and that was his downfall. Since my clowns stay pretty high in the tank, he would attack then go back to a rock he was perching on, rest for a second or two, then attack again. After a little while of this, he was pretty tuckered out, and I was able to swoop him out without a lot of effort.
Very cool fish and full of personality, but he is best suited in a tank that does not have small fish or inverts. Mine was probably on the extreme end of the killing spectrum, but nonetheless, it's a risk. Mine is just a juvenile... can't even imagine the damage he would have done as an adult...
Right now, the smallest fish he's in with is an adult lemon peel angelfish and a juvenile bellus angelfish. He's fine in there, and entirely entertaining... but I'm still keeping an eye on him just in case.
Very cool fish and full of personality, but he is best suited in a tank that does not have small fish or inverts. Mine was probably on the extreme end of the killing spectrum, but nonetheless, it's a risk. Mine is just a juvenile... can't even imagine the damage he would have done as an adult...
Right now, the smallest fish he's in with is an adult lemon peel angelfish and a juvenile bellus angelfish. He's fine in there, and entirely entertaining... but I'm still keeping an eye on him just in case.
CanadianReefer
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I have a similar picture - unfortunately not on this computer, or I'd share... cute but ever so bad!!This is what happened to my shrimp
CanadianReefer
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https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/murdock-the-murderer.328002/
Here you go... my adventures with my hawkfish.
I ended up setting up a 75g system just for him and the lemon peel (who ate all my LPS corals)
Here you go... my adventures with my hawkfish.
I ended up setting up a 75g system just for him and the lemon peel (who ate all my LPS corals)
nautical_nathaniel
Indecision may or may not be my problem.
I forgot to mention that I keep mine with a Fire Shrimp and a Pistol Shrimp in the same aquarium.
KorL
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I have 4 flame hawks and 1 cleaner shrimp in my tank currently. It used to be 3 cleaner shrimp but lost 2 of them some time earlier in the year. I don’t think it was flame hawks because I wouldn’t have any shrimp left
Empress
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I'd go longnose, even though mine is only 2 inches long, he shows no aggressive tendencies. He does show amazing personality, however, and loves to sit and watch me from his little frag rack that I keep in the tank with only one frag on it for him to sit on. He is definitely one of the neatest fish I have ever kept!
What else is in the tank with him? Nice picture. [emoji227]
Empress
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How big do the longnose get? Do they grow fast?
KorL
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200 gallon
CanadianReefer
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No, but my tank is huge... I figure they probably would in smaller tanks
nautical_nathaniel
Indecision may or may not be my problem.
Ocellaris Clown pair, Melanurus Wrasse, and a Yellow Watchman Goby
