Cleaner for lionfish (oral hygiene)?

[dendro982]

Need help: what cleaner is suitable for cleaning the lionfish (teen mombassa), mouth and the face?

Tried: cleaner wrasse - not cleans, but pinches, and the blood shrimp - did excellent job for 1.5 years for 3 lions, until was eaten today (can you see me, tearing my hair off?).

The only else cleaners, I know, are blue neon goby and cleaner shrimp, both unlikely to survive.

Who else?

I don't know, is there any real necessity in cleaning, or fish just like to be petted, but they were served very frequently, coming themselves to the cave.

Thanks.

 

[kydsexy]

lol go with another cleaner wrasse, maybe larger this time. that sucks they ate it tho.

 

[justinl]

there isnt really any necessity for cleaner shrimp or fish. more a risk than anything else.

 

[dendro982]

Cleaner wrasse (true, mot mimic) was removed to a separate tank - it pinched fish all the time, driving it mad. It moves fast - too fast for a lion. But doesn't do the job.

The blood shrimp was chosen by the fish: fish comes to the cave, assumes not threatening pose, and shrimp runs forward to pat face by antennae, do something by it's fine pincers, including once witnessed full-arm-inside-lion's-mouth work.

How they communicate - who knows, but in this case shrimp was running forward, when the lion only started to approach. Some kind of emergency?

Any other cleaners come in mind?