Anyone want a hawkfish?

[Tsannik]

Well, despite the fact that I like this guy, I also like all the other fish in the tank. He was a great fish for a while. Now he thinks he is a T-rex, and since I have tried all the tricks at my disposal and none of it works, I really need to get him out of there. It makes no financial sense to let a $13 fish kill my $30 fish. I like him, but not that much more.

So, he is a Falco's Hawkfish, ~3'' long, great color, slight blue hue on some of his fins and tale. I don't have a pic (trying to get one). Ideally I would like to trade him for something (I am putting this here because I do not have access to the trading section) not sure what, but if you have a peaceful fish that is getting beat up we could help each other out. At the moment he is in solitary, and there he will stay until I figure out a plan.

Someone suggested putting in a couple Damsels to give him a run for his money, but I am not sure adding more aggression to the tank is what I need. I can foresee having to post another one of these messages detailing how I don't want a $2 fish killing my $30 fish.

So any tips would be nice, but like I said, I have moved the rocks several times (works for about a day now), placed him in solitary several times (seems to just make him angrier), even removed him from the tank for a bit and then put him back in as the "new" guy. To no avail. I am tired of disrupting the entire tank (the corals are getting mad, I can just feel it lol), he needs to go.

[jamey1010]

I'm sure someone will take him, but if not just take him back to the fish store.

Stressing him out trying all those things is probable not the answer.

Good luck

[Tsannik]

I couldn't agree more. I'm stressing us both out.

[jamey1010]

Lol well good luck and I never liked hawkish that much because they always continously sat on my favorite corals stressing them out

[aquamaniac]

if you didnt live so far away I would love him.

[Tsannik]

Well here is a follow up. Putting him in isolation worked like a charm. I left him in a floating in tank breeder for about two months. Kept him well fed, gave him a perch, and let him think about how he was behaving. All jokes aside I think he was just in there long enough for him to forget that it was his territory. Returned him to the general population and kept a close eye on him. He is now back to being a productive member of society, jumping from rock to rock living in harmony with his tank mates. I wouldn't recommend this for bigger fish, as a floating breeder is a pretty small space, but it certainly worked for this little guy.