Cleaner Wrasse at Palma Aquarium | Meet the Fish Doctor

Did you know ?

They swim together with other fish and clean their mouths and cavities of parasites. These small fish are responsible for cleaning and deworming other fish in coral areas.

Labroides dimidiatus

They are real cleaning professionals and when one does the job well, they may even have a line of "customers" waiting for their turn.

Measures

14 cm.

Diet

Crustaceans parasitic on other fish.

Cleaner wrasse

Labroides dimidiatus

Did you know ?

Labroides dimidiatus

Measures

Diet

Conservation Status

Extinct

Threatened

Low risk

Origin

Red Sea and East Africa.