The lastest on cleaner wrasse!

[lee9]

The link to the actual research article is at the bottom of the page where it says reference in case you didn't see it. I missed it the first time I read it. It explains the methods they used.

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%...l.pone.0021201

Originally Posted by daniella3d

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.

[naesco]

Originally Posted by paddyob

Spot what?

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.

[Delphinus]

Wow very informative and interesting. Thanks for the share. .. It's a conclusion I think it's easy to intuitively believe, but good to have some empirical data ..

[MarkoD]

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

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by naesco

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.

Oh. Saw that. Thought there was something else.

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by MarkoD

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

Neons are tough. Mine will even sit in my hand and clean me!

We experience less disease in our tanks than the wild.. More contained anyhow. I don't see a cleaner wrasse being the only sound choice.

Sorry about your neons. Try again.