Sweet little Geometric Hawkfish

earlnewt · #1 03/01/2007, 11:43 PM

He has been a part of the family for more than two years now. Never gets into any trouble. No more than 2" in length.

perky · #2 03/02/2007, 12:01 AM

very pretty. just curious, do you have any shrimps with him?

earlnewt · #3 03/02/2007, 12:30 AM

Yes. A blood, cleaner and a cammel. All have been their from 4 months to just over a year.

earlnewt · #4 03/02/2007, 12:31 AM

Yes. A blood, cleaner and a cammel. All have been their from 4 months to just over a year. Thank you for the comment.

techigirl78 · #5 03/02/2007, 08:49 AM

Very nice. What other fish do you have with it?

earlnewt · #6 03/02/2007, 11:46 AM

I have two Firefish, one Purple Firefish, two Yellow Gobbies, a maited pair of Twin Spot Gobbies, one Rainfordy Goby, one Cinn. Clown. They all work well together.

john37 · #7 03/02/2007, 12:45 PM

lovely fish. very bright.

techigirl78 · #8 03/02/2007, 01:15 PM

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Originally posted by earlnewt
I have two Firefish, one Purple Firefish, two Yellow Gobbies, a maited pair of Twin Spot Gobbies, one Rainfordy Goby, one Cinn. Clown. They all work well together.

Thanks. I really want to get one, but wasn't sure how it would do with my smaller gobies. I think I'm going to have to pick the one up at the LFS. I've had my eye on it awhile and it just seems to be such a awesome little fish. The look of a hawk in a little package.

Capt_Cully · #9 03/02/2007, 03:11 PM

Those are AWESOME. Cool little fish!

Bret61081 · #10 03/02/2007, 03:29 PM

is it an aggressive eater? I was thinking of getting one for my 24g that I want to put pipefish in...

BiggySmalls · #11 03/02/2007, 04:45 PM

i think that is really called a highfin perchlet i saw one at my lfs and they are cool

i found the info on liveaquaria.com

matter1331 · #12 03/02/2007, 05:37 PM

that's another name I believe. I've always seen/heard them called geometric pixie hawks

earlnewt · #13 03/02/2007, 11:10 PM

Great question Bret61081. I would not put one in with pipe fish. They are not aggrasive eaters, but they can eye a piece of food from a foot away and in a split second it's gone. Very quick. I have a 37g seahorse tank as well, nearly two years now, and I would not put one in with them.

falconut · #14 03/03/2007, 12:33 AM

Love the fish. I've had mine for almost 2 months now and it's just starting to feel more comfortable where I see it alot.

Mine took about 3 weeks to come out. I thought it died. Now it pops out from time to time through out the day. Nice little fish.

earlnewt · #15 03/03/2007, 12:41 AM

They are very shy. I rarely saw him for well over a year. No lie. I forgot he was in their until he poped his head out once every month or so. When I switched everything over from my 46g to the 58g I got rid of a Royal Gramma and he is everywhere now. Funny thing is the gramma never picked on him.

Scottkelly911 · #16 03/03/2007, 12:42 AM

I had one, but haven't seen it in about a month, I'm guessing it died somewhere in the rockwork

I really liked that little bugger, but only saw him for like the first 2 days I had him.

Peter Schmiedel · #17 03/03/2007, 03:01 AM

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Originally posted by earlnewt
Yes. A blood, cleaner and a cammel. All have been their from 4 months to just over a year. Thank you for the comment.

Better be carefull with smaler shrimps:

mattyice · #18 03/03/2007, 10:58 AM

haha thats an awesome picture, they really arent as aggressive as true hawks because they are technically anthias and not hawkfish, but i could see any fish going after smaller shrimp, my sohal and juvie imperator angel both eat krill