Cleaner Wrasse

[critmin]

Is there a size minimum that a fish must be for a cleaner wrasse to clean it? Does it have to be bigger than the wrasse?

 

[DKRT0821]

I don't think so.

 

[mark97r6]

I have never seen them clean smaller fish liuke clowns or cardinals or simular if that helps! Though i aint saying they wont, just mine hasnt/never seen one do it.

A neon gobie is a much better option, as they are much smaller mine regulary cleans my bagghii cardinals and tom clowns.

HTH
Mark

 

[AquaReeferMan]

My wrasse will sometimes nip at my percs but the percs swim away. My hippo tang doesnt mind a cleaning every now and again though. The one I have was from my work. It would always clean the larger fish we put in, he never was really around small fish. It eats everything (mysis, live brine, prime reef, and nori)

 

[Manderin]

do fish react to a cleaner wrasse the same way they do a shrimp, line up and such
i like to watch tem so that with my skunk shrimp

 

[edwar050]

I personally would not buy one unless my tank was 300+ gallons with heavy stock or if I had a tank at an LFS that was consitantly getting fish in and would not sell it.

 

[Billybeau1]

My CW cleans everyone except the damsel. Could be a size issue.