Anyone tried two hawkfish in the same tank?

SecretiveFish · 08/02/2011, 03:24 PM

We have a longnose hawkfish in our 150 gallon tank, and I would like to add a Swallowtail hawkfish (or also known as Red Hawkfish (Cyprinocirrhites polyactus) ). Anyone tried this?

Our longnose seems peaceful, as in we have not seen him take out any cleanup crew or the coral banded shrimp.

MrTuskfish · 08/02/2011, 07:24 PM

IME. hawkfish usually do well together, if they have enough room. I've never kept a swallowtail, but have a pair of Flame hawkfish & a longnose together with no problems. Almost all hawkfish will eat any small invert they can; don't count on the new one being so nice to the inverts.

SecretiveFish · 08/03/2011, 07:21 AM

Thanks for replying. We are trying to merge tanks so I am looking into available options. The swallowtail has luckily been nice to crustaceans too and has not eated any snails, hermit crabs, or the purple lobster he is in with. He and the lobster live in the same cave....

SecretiveFish · 08/17/2011, 08:09 AM

Update: After we removed all the rocks/corals/fish in order to make our sandbed a DSB, put the rocks back, re-aquascaped and waited for the new cycle to complete, we put both hawkfish in the 150 along with the tank's other fish (removed a problematic foxface while we were at it). About a week in, there have been no issues. The two hawkfish fish do not seem to care about one another at all. Hopefully my luck will last!

tcmfish · 08/17/2011, 08:17 AM

Hope you put that rock on the bottom of the aquarium and not the sand otherwise as the fish move the sand and the sand shifts so will your aquascape, aka it will come tumbling down and possibly breaking the aquarium, no joke.

08/02/2011, 03:24 PM	#1
SecretiveFish Registered Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: PNW Posts: 713	Anyone tried two hawkfish in the same tank? We have a longnose hawkfish in our 150 gallon tank, and I would like to add a Swallowtail hawkfish (or also known as Red Hawkfish (Cyprinocirrhites polyactus) ). Anyone tried this? Our longnose seems peaceful, as in we have not seen him take out any cleanup crew or the coral banded shrimp.

08/02/2011, 07:24 PM	#2
MrTuskfish Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: The Wild Blue Yonder Posts: 8,887	IME. hawkfish usually do well together, if they have enough room. I've never kept a swallowtail, but have a pair of Flame hawkfish & a longnose together with no problems. Almost all hawkfish will eat any small invert they can; don't count on the new one being so nice to the inverts. __________________ If God didn't want us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat. Steve Current Tank Info: 180, 2-240 FOWLRs, 240 reef

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08/03/2011, 07:21 AM	#3
SecretiveFish Registered Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: PNW Posts: 713	Thanks for replying. We are trying to merge tanks so I am looking into available options. The swallowtail has luckily been nice to crustaceans too and has not eated any snails, hermit crabs, or the purple lobster he is in with. He and the lobster live in the same cave....

08/17/2011, 08:09 AM	#4
SecretiveFish Registered Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: PNW Posts: 713	Update: After we removed all the rocks/corals/fish in order to make our sandbed a DSB, put the rocks back, re-aquascaped and waited for the new cycle to complete, we put both hawkfish in the 150 along with the tank's other fish (removed a problematic foxface while we were at it). About a week in, there have been no issues. The two hawkfish fish do not seem to care about one another at all. Hopefully my luck will last!

08/17/2011, 08:17 AM	#5
tcmfish Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 3,658	Hope you put that rock on the bottom of the aquarium and not the sand otherwise as the fish move the sand and the sand shifts so will your aquascape, aka it will come tumbling down and possibly breaking the aquarium, no joke.