I recently purchased a Hawk Fish, cool little fish, very pretty.
I get home yesterday, after being gone only and hour, to find the wiskers of my cleaner shrimp poking out of his mouth......my Fire shirmp was also nowhere to be found.
"When they was no meat we ate fowl, when there was no fowl we ate crawdad. And when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand."--Cellmate
"You ate what?"--H.I.
"We ate sand."--Cellmate
"You ate sand?"--H.I.
"That's right."--Cellmate
Hey Skip,
I had to get rid of my Hawk because they are known to eat shrimp. I was sad because I loved watching my hawk perch on the rocks but I don't like when my tank inhabitants eat my other critters. You have to be very careful about what kind of fish and inverts you buy and do your research before you buy ANYTHING!
In my experience, hawkfish are unpredictable regards to shrimp. However, more often than not, they will eat them. I have watched even smaller hawkfish (pixy hawk, Cirrhitichthys oxycephalus) rip apart shrimp that were bigger than they were in order to eat them.
If it was you in that tank and you were hungry, would you not eat that shrimp.....umm good shrimp.
"When they was no meat we ate fowl, when there was no fowl we ate crawdad. And when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand."--Cellmate
"You ate what?"--H.I.
"We ate sand."--Cellmate
"You ate sand?"--H.I.
"That's right."--Cellmate
Heh, I had put him in the sump and he managed to jump the bulkhead and get to my Peppermint shrimp, so that is 4 shrimp total he has devoured......I guess it could have been worse.
"When they was no meat we ate fowl, when there was no fowl we ate crawdad. And when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand."--Cellmate
"You ate what?"--H.I.
"We ate sand."--Cellmate
"You ate sand?"--H.I.
"That's right."--Cellmate