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Len

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After it's done it's job, I honestly don't know. I haven't kept cleaners for very long since they seem to have little disease to sustain them. I know this is a ethical dilemna, but the chance of saving many wrasses may be worth trying a cleaner wrasse.
 

Hiroyuki Tanaka

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Yes, Cleaner Wrasses may pick up parasites on fairy wrasses but they do not accept foods offered and do notlive long in the aquarium.

Here is a new comer, but a popular species, C. lineatus, 10 cm long. It came from Australia and soon displayed in the tank without any female.
This is close to C. laboutei from Australia, New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands and Vanuatu.
 

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Hiroyuki Tanaka

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It is a displaying coloration of the same specimen. The caudal fin was gorgeously colored, pinkish red. The body and fins turned whitish, but the pectoral fins became orange ! (unusual for Cirrhilabrus spp.)
 

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Len

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Gobies won't work because Cirrhilabrus are so active. They will not slow down for gobies for shrimps, so only the wrasses can do the work.
 
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shane 1111":3qi3fzrf said:
i seen a wrass get cleened by a cleaner goby at my lfs

In a small tank? If the tank is small, the movement is limited, so maybe that's why it can be cleaned. I don't know much about wrasse, so that was just a guess.
 

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A cleaner wrasse is inspecting a male of Paracheilinus cyaneus, 8cm (upper) and also Cirrhilabrus roseafascia, 15cm (lower) in a small tank. The latter just changed its pectoral fins, white to yellow.
 

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