Blood red hawkfish (Cirrhitops fasciatus)

[christyf5]

They don't look like they could fit a small fish in their mouths but they have a hinge-ing system to their jaw, like a grouper. Their mouth gets pretty huge and they'll cram whatever fits into it (and some things that don't). I wouldn't risk if if I were you.

[fishoholic]

Ya I keeping thinking he's pretty similar to the falco hawkfish I had and that he doesn't look like he could fit it into his mouth, but if it's sort of like a hinge thing like Christy said, I'm not sure I want to risk it, but he's so cool I have a hard time resisting him whenever I see that he's still there.

Because I couldn't get my dumb red corris wrasse out of the reef tank I put my little fairy wrasse in with my triggers, toby puffer and king angel. The neat thing is that even though he's in a very aggressive tank no one picks on him, I'm guessing because he's small, no one sees him as a threat and that's why