Anyone have experience with a longnose hawkfish in a reef?

[Matt L.]

I have never kept a hawkfish before. Has anyone kept a Longnose Hawkfish (Oxycirrhites typus) in a reef?

They say reef safe with caution, but from my research, this has more to do with them eating ornamental shrimps. I don't keep ornamental shrimp. They also say they are a danger to small fish, but my True percula clownfish are a mature breeding pair, and they are the smallest fish in the system. I also have a majestic angel, a sand sifting goby, pyramid butterflies, lyretail anthias, and a sand sifting goby. I have all sorts of corals.

Will this fish perch and bother coral? I have lots of rock.

Any advice would be appreciated on their behavior.

Matt

 

[MrX]

I had one in my 120g for 2-3 months. I loved that fish, great personality! Not sure what happened but it stopped eating and died about 1-1.5 weeks after that. None of my other fish had any issues.

It never bothered my cleaner shrimp, corals, or anything else. At feeding time it always came right up to me with my clownfish alongside and grabbed some pellets. Then it would hang back to see what was coming from the turkey baster. It would perch on the rocks and watch me watching it. While I was feeding it would perch on one of the nori clips, then when I went to put in the nori it would swim across the tank and perch on the other one.

There is a bonded pair for sale on LiveAquaria/Diver's Den that I'm ->this<- close to buying.

It would have to be a really small fish or invert to be eaten.

 

[Mr.Rodrigo502]

I don't have a longnose but I have an arc eye hawk fish... It's Been with me for 3 years....... Has never touched a coral or any verts.....great personality.. He will swim up to u and ask for food... Then he will go back to where he was and just "sit" there and just watches everything around him.. Like a hawk in the sky.....