Are Gobies Poisonous?

[ddaddy]

I had an unfortunate occurance of two fish dying in my quarantine tank after recently purchasing them. One was a high fin banded goby and the other a long nosed hawkfish. After about two days in quarantine I found the goby cornered by the hawkfish and a chunks were missing from his back and face. He was still alive and I new he wouldn't make it long so I disposed of him as humanely as I thought was possible.
After being somewhat PO'd I turned off the lights and went to bed only to find the hawkfish stiff as a board the next day. Was the goby that he munched on poisonous?
I doubt it was an environmental problem that caused the hawk to die because I also had a strawberry pseudochromis in the tank that's doing just fine.
Overall those two fish were not a fun experience... And from what I read hawkfish don't bother other fish only small shrimp.

 

[sistrmary]

That's weird...everything I've ever read/heard about hawkfish is that they pick on any fish about their size. The only thing meaner...funnily enough are pseudochromis. Once the hawkfish took out the goby, the pseudochromis probably decided it was the hawks turn.