Sad Day In The New Tank...

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Sad Day In The New Tank...

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I recently purchased a Hawk Fish, cool little fish, very pretty.

I get home yesterday, after being gone only and hour, to find the wiskers of my cleaner shrimp poking out of his mouth......my Fire shirmp was also nowhere to be found.

Hawkfish is currently in time out in the sump.
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I've always wanted a hawk but also like my shrimp. If you have hermits they might slowly disappear also.
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Red Flame Hawk ?
"When they was no meat we ate fowl, when there was no fowl we ate crawdad. And when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand."--Cellmate
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Hey Skip,
I had to get rid of my Hawk because they are known to eat shrimp. I was sad because I loved watching my hawk perch on the rocks but I don't like when my tank inhabitants eat my other critters. You have to be very careful about what kind of fish and inverts you buy and do your research before you buy ANYTHING!
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Post by Amphiprion »

In my experience, hawkfish are unpredictable regards to shrimp. However, more often than not, they will eat them. I have watched even smaller hawkfish (pixy hawk, Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus) rip apart shrimp that were bigger than they were in order to eat them.
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If it was you in that tank and you were hungry, would you not eat that shrimp.....umm good shrimp.
"When they was no meat we ate fowl, when there was no fowl we ate crawdad. And when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand."--Cellmate
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Heh, I had put him in the sump and he managed to jump the bulkhead and get to my Peppermint shrimp, so that is 4 shrimp total he has devoured......I guess it could have been worse.
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Not for the shrimp. :lol:
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Post by Amyjoe »

Kevin always wondered what happened to our hermits and snails :roll:
Wonder what it is going to take to get a bigger tank?????
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Post by Brandon »

What kind of hawk was it? We had an arc-eyed hawk, that would kill anything he could, damsels, whatever.. he was a mean turd.
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Brandon wrote:What kind of hawk was it? We had an arc-eyed hawk, that would kill anything he could, damsels, whatever.. he was a mean turd.
did you name him?
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Turd.
"When they was no meat we ate fowl, when there was no fowl we ate crawdad. And when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand."--Cellmate
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"We ate sand."--Cellmate
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Post by Brandon »

I don't know if he had a name or not, he was neat for a while, we didn't kill him though, we ended up taking him back to Amazon's river.
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Post by armouredcat »

Mine was a Banded Hawk. He looks freaking awsome! but he gets to go to a new home.
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