Pipefish cleaning behavior

hebus13

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I all,

I'm looking for some experience feedback about blue stripe pipefish (doryrhamphus excisus).
As you perhaps know, the pipefish of doryrhamphus family are known to have cleaning behavior with other fishes.

In my reef tank, i'm currently having a pair of blue stripe pipefish. I recently introduced in the tank a fathead anthias (Serraocirrhitus latus), and I can now witness this cleaning behavior everyday.
Has anyone seen such a behavior in tank ? Wich host have the pipefish chosen (I read that they are prone to clean damsel and apogon)?
 
We had a pair of "cleaner" pipes in our reef when we had it running. They were a M-F pair of D. janssi (Janss' Pipefish).

When they were open for biz, they would do an odd vertical "see-saw" swimming motion that said "come and get cleaned" and their tankmates would line up for a grooming.
 
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