Pixie Hawk Problems

[vettesarebest]

I have had a pixie hawk for a long time in my twenty gallon reef and i have recently put him in my new 75 gallon reef with a bunch of blue leg hermit crabs and he seems to like eating them when im not looking. Yesterday i herd a poping nnoise and looked up and he had a blue leg hermit crab in his mouth adn he was trying to eat it out of its shell. Has anyone had a problem with this? He didnt do this in my old tank. Is there anything i can do??

Thanks

 

[jmaneyapanda]

Hawkfish are known for be quite oppotunistic. I cannot explain why he is suddenly doing it, but I have heard stories of flame hawks eating 200+ snails and hermits.

 

[vettesarebest]

Is there anyhting i could do to make it less likely that he eats them. Like could i feed him more so he isnt hungry??

 

[washowi]

I have a Falco Hawkfish that ate all of my Cleaner shrimp..They were as big as he was!..anyway mine perches up on a spot when I feed and I give a butt load of mysis shrimp..that settles mine down...

I also saw him ripping a snail out of his shell..These hawfish are like terrorists in the tank.. feed him LORS of big juicey mysis.

Todd

 

[vettesarebest]

Thanks tod for your advice. My hawk does the same thing perches but i also feed him ALOT of mysis but i guess i need to feed him more. When he was in my 20 gallon and i was away my dad made the mistake of putting a cleaner shrimp in there and he ate the shrimp too. Had i been there i could have stopped this bu ti was not

Thanks,
Bryan