Longnose Hawkfish

Care Summary

The Longnose Hawkfish uses its elongated snout to extract prey from crevices and between coral branches; in the wild it perches in black coral and gorgonians at depth. Provide tall gorgonians or branching corals as perching structures; without elevated vantage points it will pace the tank restlessly and show the kind of stress behavior that shortens its lifespan. Do not keep it with ornamental shrimp or very small fish; it will methodically hunt and eat everything it can catch, and the long snout makes it effective at reaching prey that would escape other hawkfish. Feed frozen mysis and meaty small foods twice daily; it eats with conviction and is easy to establish on prepared foods, but will remain a threat to any shrimp that share the tank.