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I need all the info i can get on the long nose (or long snout) hawk fish. sirbooks you should be able to help me on this!
Here is key things i want to know:
-feeding habits
-behavior
-potential size
-good tank mates
-water paremeters that suit fish
-a good example of a good enviroment for this fish

thanks in advance

ps any info besides what i said id like would be great!

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pnh

Shabam!

This profile contains much of the information you're looking for. They'll eat anything meaty that they can wrap their jaws around, and are happy in stable water parameters that avoid any extreme in pH or salinity. They prefer tanks with plenty of rockwork and corals which they can perch on, but this isn't a prerequisite for survival.

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And when he gets to Heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell: "One more Marine reporting, Sir! I've served my time in Hell."

will the hawk fish come to the top of the tank for food or do i have to take the food to him. whats the best way to get this fish to eat

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pnh

They'll learn to equate their keeper with food, and will usually dash the top of the water column when they think they will be fed. Hawks are gluttons, and won't pass up a meal as long as they are healthy. Once they've figured out where the grub comes from, most hawkfish will be more than happy to snag it from the top portion of the fish tank. If not, they will still be quick to snatch it from a swoop out of their perching position.

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And when he gets to Heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell: "One more Marine reporting, Sir! I've served my time in Hell."

On my recent trip to Liverpool Museum, I saw a nice specimen of this species in action.

It shares its home with the following inmates:

6 Achilles Tangs
6 Regal Tangs
1 Scarlet Hawkfish
1 Blenny of indeterminate identity
1 Midas Blenny (I think)
1 Tomato Clown
12 Humbug Damssels
4 Nematleotris magnifica Firefishes
1 Paracirrhites forsteri Hawkfish
1 Copper Band Butterfly Fish
1 Cleaner Wrasse

If this fish count sounds inordinately high for a marine setup, remember that it's a whopping 2,000 gallons (and that's UK gallons to boot)!

Now, those Tangs are pretty beefy specimens. You'd think the other fishes wouldn't get a look in once those went for the food. Wrong. Step forward the Hawkfishes. The Longnosed Hawkfish is probably the bravest of the lot - darting out from some perch or other right into the middle of the Tang melée once the food goes in. It's capable of snatching morsels from right in front of the Tangs' mouths!

You'd think with that mouth, it would be hard pressed to compete, yet it's more likely to swipe itself a choice morsel than the other two Hawkfishes with more conventional mouths, and they're pretty forward when it comes to the matter of the dinner table

If you head for the Photo Booth, you'll catch it out in the open in my set of Liverpool Museum fish pics.


Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

i hope this isnt bad (i dont think so) for most fish it is bad for them to have cloudy eyes. is the long nose an exception. because mine has like a greenish bluish tint in both of its eyes. Is this bad?

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pnh

If the eyes are actually cloudy, then you may have some kind of water quality problem which has caused an infection. If you mean the actual color of the eyes, the blue-green tint is normal. See this picture for a healthy longnose hawk eye:

http://www.riffaquarium.de/images/Oxycirrhites%20typus%20(Korallenwaechter).jpg

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And when he gets to Heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell: "One more Marine reporting, Sir! I've served my time in Hell."