hawkfish

[r6danger]

will a hawkfish eat my hermits? my mom is giving me her hawkfish, but i wanna know if it will eat my hermits before i take it...i need an answer quick because she's giving it to me tomorrow

 

[fixitdude2001]

Hawkfish will eat some inverts like shrimp etc, I guess alot depends on the size of the hermits, and how well fed the hawkfish is, what I mean is if its hungry it might eat it,like anything else survival of the fitist....cya hope this helps

 

[shel]

I agree with fixit. If you don't feed them enough then need to get their food from somewhere. I have a flame hawk fish in my 125 with an assortment of crabs. (Hermit, big and small. Sally light foots, emerald crabs) They are all still alive. If I put ghost shrimp in, he is the first to catch and eat them. Hope this helps.
Shel

 

[guppie]

I also have a Flame Hawk in a 125 with many diferent types of crabs and he does not bother them. Just make sure he has enough to eat. Good Luck

 

[moksha]

Just make sure you don't plan on buying any cleaner shrimp. I had a well-fed flame hawk, and added a cleaner. They were ok for about a month, but then the hawk got way aggressive, so I took him back, the cleaner was too cool. I also found a dead sally-lightfoot, and I blame the hawk. Maybe in a bigger tank it would be ok, mine is 75 gallon.
good luck

 

[pufferlover]

Yes hawks will eat shrimp if they can catch them. I bought a 20 dollar flame shrimp and forgot I had a spotted hawk in the tank within 2 days the shrimp was toast and my fish get plenty to eat. They are very cool fish but they can take a number of inverts for dinner regardless of the inverts size.