Longnose Hawkfish Reef Safe?

[Elan L.]

What has been your experience with these fish. Would you consider them reef safe? Will it get along with my other fish?

Here are my fish so far (75g)

2 True Percs
2 Blue Green Chromis (getting a third)
1 Flame Angel
1 little Scooter Blennie
1 Mandarin
1 Sleeper Goby

 

[chasekwe]

Should be fine, have any inverts you'd care about losing?

 

[Elan L.]

well i have 3 cleaner shrimp 3 starts and a coral banded shrimp, but they are huge, will that still be a problem? Also have some fan worms. Will it eat snails? I really dont care about the hermits.

 

[mikearoni]

I have one and although they told me it may pick at corals I have never seen it do so. Although I have seen a declining amount of hermits in the tank, which is not bad, I have too many. I also have a mated pair of yellow coral banded shrimps and the hawk scared me at first when I got him, it perched right next to them, but he left them alone. Ive had him for 4 months and the only inverts ive seen him eat is the hermits. He wont eat pellets and he loves brine.

 

[wegotcrabs]

I never had any problems with mine either.

 

[Elan L.]

what about the fan worms? And how big do they usually get?

 

[xr4kw]

Mine has never touched any corals or feather dusters. He just hangs out all day on one of my rocks and the magnetic algea cleaner.

He is very mellow and ignores the other fish in the tank.

 

[betamed]

they are jumpers. Will not eat corals may eat small shrimp/crabs etc.

 

[mikearoni]

mine is about 4" long, I think they can get to 5" no more than that. dont know about the fan worms, I dont have any. hes usually pretty mellow as well and ignores the others too.

 

[Elan L.]

ok thats good since i saw yours, its actually the one that wanted me to get one too. Where did you get it? Btw, the frogspawn is doing awesome, really opened up and i picked up the big one you had with the green dots at CRF, really cool.

 

[mikearoni]

I got my hawkfish at CRF as well. If they dont have one, talk to one of the guys the can get you one.

Glad to see that the frogspawn is doing so well.