Longnose hawkfish and a peppermint shrimp

Redbird5 · May 12, 2025

Would the peppermint shrimp be OK if I put in a long nose hawkfish in a 45 gallon aquarium?

I'm making a list of fish I'd like to keep in my aquarium. I know that the hawkfish would eat sexy shrimp. My peppermint shrimp is maybe 2-3 inches long without his antenna.

I'd like to add a dwarf angel, like a flame angel or lemon peel angel. I'm not sure if they'd live comfortably in a 45 gallon or not.

The other question I have is if I get a hawkfish what kind of CUC can live with it? Would snails work? What about emerald crabs? I don't want to be serving escargo and crab legs to my fish.

I have a toadstool coral, would it be OK with the lemon peel angel?

My list of fish are a clownfish, flame fish, hawkfish and maybe lemon peel angel or flame angel and maybe zoas, toadstool coral and a Duncan color. Everything on this list is just in pencil nothing permanent other than my clownfish and peppermint shrimp since I have them already.

Lbrdsoxfan · May 12, 2025

Good luck, BTDT. Kept a long nose hawk for about 7 years. At year 4ish, it developed a taste for shrimp. Thus no more shrimp intil it passed.

JumboShrimp · May 12, 2025

I have had a Longnose Hawkfish in the past-- no shrimp in the tank-- but he would pretty forcefully lunge at pieces of food dropped in at feeding time. So I just assumed people were right that a shrimp would just be an expensive and tasty little hors d'oeuvre. If you were going to 'try' it, I would buy the cheapest kind of shrimp out there, before risking something expensive. ;)

Lbrdsoxfan · May 12, 2025

JumboShrimp said:
I have had a Longnose Hawkfish in the past-- no shrimp in the tank-- but he would pretty forcefully lunge at pieces of food dropped in at feeding time. So I just assumed people were right that a shrimp would just be an expensive and tasty little hors d'oeuvre. If you were going to 'try' it, I would buy the cheapest kind of shrimp out there, before risking something expensive. ;)

Yup, I watched mine chomp a red fire shrimp, which was about 20$ at the time in two. They were tank mates for a few years @ that point. Tried a camel just for stocking and a bunch of peppermints for aiptasia eradication, and between the hawk and wrasses, it got expensive, fast!