Long Nose Hawkfish

[danweaver]

Do Long Nose Hawkfish commonly eat shrimp?
I have had one for the last six months and now all
of my shrimp are gone.

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[NoriMuncher]

Do you mean small shrimp? The answer is yes. They tend to hunt at night, sticking their long nose down crevices. I had one once that wouldn't eat anything I fed him for almost a year. He must have been eating something.

 

[danweaver]

I had several blood and peppermintshrimp that have disappeared.

 

[Green Lantern]

Absolutely. They will possibly eat any shrimp that can't fight back. DaleD (member of the board) told me an almost amusing, ( not so much for the shrimp), story about adding pacific cleaner shrimp to his tank. He go one big enough that he thought could handle itself with the hawk. The fish bashed the shrimp into the glass until it had more manageable pieces. Besides being a threat to your ornamental shrimp Scott Michaels warns that they may take after small fish as well.

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[Anonymous]

That surprises me about the small fish - I know hawks in general may go after small fish, but I though it had to be able to fit in it's mouth. My long nose hawk has never even looked at my chromis, eats like a pig and begs when ever he sees me near the tank.

I'm very happy with mine - he's a little tank.

But I don't have ornamental shrimp either. I'll keep that in mind.

 

[danweaver]

Thanks for the info.
I guess I will have to move the Hawkfish to a
new tank.

 

[freedom75]

I have a spotted hawk.. Placed 3 Peppermint's in my tank the other day. He circled around and swalloded on whole. nothing but antenna's hanging out

. Then circled the other who died very soon after . Not sure why. I can tell you now. a spotted hawk will eat shrimp so more than likely so will a long nose.

John