Flame hawk with pistol?

[Grouperhead]

Do yall think a 2.5" flame would bother a 1.5-1.75" tiger pistol? The flame is in my 20 with a black occellaris and about 25-30lbs of rock. Plenty of places to dig and get a cave. The flame took out a small peppermint when introduced and I've probably fed him 5 or so ghost shrimp in his 2+ years with me. I think I'm going to try it unless y'all think it's too risky.

 

[Dooly]

if he eats peppermints, he will go for the pistol.. you either get a flame hawk who WILL eat shrimp or one who completely ignores them.. a shrimp is a shrimp

 

[Grouperhead]

Gotcha. I didn't know if a pistol could hold his own - they look to have a bit harder exoskeleton and at least a little protection. The pep was tiny too...about .5" and the pistol will at least be close to his size. I'm not going to do it though

 

[philter4]

I've never had a flame, but I once had a small red spotted hawk take a cleaner shrimp that was bigger then him and he bashed it against the rocks until it broke into bite sized pieces. The same hawk (when it was older) ate another cleaner that had just shed and even though it took a day to swallow the end result was another dead cleaner shrimp. He no longer lives in my reef.

 

[akmugen]

My flame hawk ate all my shrimp and most of my clean up crew. It's PITA to remove out of my tank. Don't do it!!!!

 

[guppie]

I have a pair of flame hawks with a couple different shrimps and never had a problem but everyone is different.

 

[Dooly]

wish I knew how to tell the diff from male/female so I could get a mate for mine

 

[tangers]

I had a flame with my tiger pistol and he never did a thing. I also had him with cleaner shrimp, peppermint shrimp, feather dusters, etc... never bothered a thing.

 

[guppie]

I bought my pair from foster&smith but after doing some looking into it I found out that they all start off as females and then they change to a male the pair that I have the male is much bigger then the female. the reason that I started looking into how they were sexed was that the day after I put mine into the tank the female was missing I thought that she just didn't make it but about a month later I found her living in my over flow, it was a pain to get her out of there, put her in the tank and both acted like they had never been apart.