Best parasite cleaner for your tank

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In a lot of reef tanks a lot of people will have a dedicated fish or invertebrate for cleaning pests off of other fish such as cleaner shrimp or cleaner wrasse. Which does a better job at cleaning in your opinion. I see cleaner shrimp do more active work on fish and not be as picky, where as cleaner wrasse tend to stick to larger fish species.
 
My pair of cleaner shrimp used to ride fish around cleaning them. They never cleaned again after I moved to larger tank. They were great at stealing food out of lps but became useless for anything else. I have a Blue streak cleaner wrasse in my large tank that works on the tangs but not a lot. I'm wondering if there's really enough parasites on the fish to really need a cleaner.
In one tank I have a electric blue damsel that will posture and my sixline cleans the damsel which is interesting to watch.
 

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