New addition to the family - Coral (Pixy) Hawkfish

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Well, after removing the 3 bandits (4-line Humbugs/Damsels), I was hoping to get a little Flame hawkfish. Instead, I rescued this guy from a store a day before he was about to get a white porcelain relocation

He's a Coral (Pixy) Hawkfish Cirrhitichthys oxycepalus, and he's probably already close to full grown at about 3" long. He has the same kind of white bars on his eyes as a Six-line wrasse, and he can move his eyes independently!

When I introduced him, he did a beeline for the bottom. Unfortunately for him, he settled on the entrance to the Pistol Shrimp tunnel & before I could close the lid, I heard a loud splash & gurgle - I think the shrimp introduced himself. I looked everywhere around the tank, but he hadn't make the floor leap so I thought all was good. The next morning, I was looking for him in the tank & there he was, Lounging in the overflow
I retrieved him and put him back in the tank. He casually swam down to the bottom, with the "What. I meant to spend the night in the sump," look on his face.

Here he is: