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07/23/2007, 12:44 AM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: San Francisco CA
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What are some tips to get a longnose hawk to eat?
Well its been a week and so far it doesnt eat any flakes, formula two, cyclop eeze, nor new life spectrum flakes and pellets. Tried homemade food shrimp, mussle clam etc. Still no luck. It spends all of its time on top of my MJ. Its been a week sitting up there and hasnt touched anything. Any suggestion on what to feed it. I am going to get some mysis and try later. But will mysis really get it to eat? I seen other hawks at other LFS and they dont look like they can break apart whole mysis. And if I cut them up wouldnt that just be like normal shrimp and make the fish not eat it?
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07/23/2007, 01:11 AM
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Coral Junkie
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Gainesville, FL
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It should eat mysis. Hawks are usually pigs
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07/23/2007, 05:50 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Michigan City IN
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Thats all My hawk eats is mysis.
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07/23/2007, 07:13 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Las Cruces, NM
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Mine eats any type of shrimp such as Mysis and Brine from the frozen cube but for some reason he really loves MarineGro granular fish food!! He devours at as fast as I can put it in.
  Jay
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07/23/2007, 07:29 AM
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Moved On
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Put something in the tank that moves and fits in the hawk's mouth.That is after all its definition of food.
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07/23/2007, 07:07 PM
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07/23/2007, 07:35 PM
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I have had my hawk for a month now and not once have I witnessed it eat. It's been given every thing under the sun to chose from. I've watched live brine shrimp dane around its eyes and nadda. I dont know what its living on but its not anything I offer it. This is the only hawk I have ever seen turn its nose up at food. Good luck and hope yours hits the dinner table soon for ya.
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