Originally Posted by daniella3d (Post 730900)

just wondering how they could prevent cleaner wrasse from entering certain areas for 8 + years..does not sound possible, thus the study sound a bit unrealistic from A to Z.

I have read that before but it did not convince me. I do have a cleaner wrasse, not to clean my fish because they have no parasites, I have it because I like them. he's doing great and he's part of the community just like the other fish in my tank.

If removing cleaner wrasse make the reef deprived of herbivores, then taking herbivores for the aquarium trade should be as bad as taking any cleaner wrasse.

Originally Posted by paddyob (Post 730907)

Spot what?

Originally Posted by naesco (Post 730935)

The second cleaner wrasse in the picture of the tang shown in the link on the first post.

Lee9 , thanks for posting the link for the study for Danielle to review.

Originally Posted by MarkoD (Post 730955)

But if cleaner wrasses are so important in the wild, wouldn't that make them valuable in the reef tank( minus the fact that they nip at clams)

I had one for 8 months. Ate every kind of frozen food, cleaned every fish. Had to get rid of it because of the clams.

Tried replacing with neon gobies. Both of them dead within a week