Flame hawkish

[Mek84]

Has anyone had problems with flame hawkish killing snails or hermit crabs?

Is there anything you can do to stop fish from eating snails?

 

[scooter31707]

I haven't had any issues, but that's one that is possible to happen. I haven't seen it personally, but I have seen them eat shrimp.

 

[johnike]

Snails are a part of some fishes diet and can't be stopped at all from eating them.
Flame Hawks will eat small shrimp but not so much crabs and snails IME.

I have a pair in the big tank, love them!

 

[Mek84]

Yeah I love my fish flame hawkish.. My snails a hermit crabs keep dieing. I dont have anything else in the tank that would kill them so maybe some of my water parameters are off

 

[jmicky41]

I have seen flame hawks knock snails off the glass and swoop down to eat them.

 

[Silly clownfish]

I have had my current flame hawk since 1999 and had another before that for about a year. Small hermit crabs always experience a slow attrition in my tank. I think he gets them when they are changing shells, and that is why they can last for many months. My FH does not bother my snails. My serpent star sometimes eats snails. I have had hermit crabs kill them too.

I have had a coral banded shrimp in with my FH since 2006 with no issues. The CBS was bigger than the hawk when I got it (by design).

My first FH used to follow my hand around the tank if I was moving rocks so it could swoop down on any amphipods I disturbed.

Every fish is different. If yours likes crabs or snails, there is not much you can do to change that. Keeping a fish well fed with food you want it to eat does help to keep it from eating things you don't want it to eat. That holds true for others, like keeping herbivores from picking on corals.