Cleaner Wrasse and Large Fish

[Cu455]

I have a cleaner wrasse in my other tank. I have had him for almost 2 years. He eats flakes.

I saw a white dot on my copperband. It looks like the white line tangs have by their tails. I want try to rid the parasite biologically before using chemicals. I tried cleaner shimp and that didn't workout.

I am going to release the wrasse tomorrow.

 

[NatureNerd]

It should be fine but to add a cleaner wrasse i would put a couple more fish in the tank because they tend to starve to death after a few months. The required amount of fish for a cleaner is 10 average size fish.

I watched a Hawaiian cleaner wrasse clean probably close to 100 fish in an hour. This was in the wild of course. I don't think we can provide enough fish with parasites to keep this species fed.