Matted filefish with longnose hawk

robax

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Hey guys
Looks like longnose hawk aggressive towards matted filefish. Thought wouldn't have problems but don't know maybe hawk will cool down? Anybody have issues with these two? Could filefish have enough defense with its harder body?
 
My Cherub Angel is constantly badgering my Matted Filefish and the filefish just acts like a dead leaf until the CA leaves him alone. I've had Flame Hawk's in the past but never a long nose and my Flame pretty much kept to himself. As far as other fish with my Matted File Fish they mostly leave him alone. My CA is just an A Hole and thinks he owns the tank. Gets PO'd at me for moving coral frags around, and especially if I put them close to HIS house LOL
 
That's really odd. I've never known a longnose to be anything besides a model citizen. I have both and they don't even look at each other. Totally different body types, shouldn't really compete. How big is the tank?
 
Thanks for replaying
Maybe it'll cool down, he didn't give a peppermint shrimp more then 2 hours but flame shrimp helped kill the peppermint and then finally the pistol shrimp finished him. Very terrible day in my tank. After that I thought I'd risk my corals and get a matter filefish very interesting fish. So hope I can get animal in sump before sadness, my tank is a 60 cube. 2 nemo clowns,1 yellow watchman goby,1 longnose,1 mandarin dragonet,1 flame shrimp and pistol + new matted.
 
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