Cleaner Shrimp in action

[boehm742]

Thought this was cool, wasnt sure if it should be in the fish or invert forum. Caught my skunk cleaner shrimp cleaning out the inside of my Ignitus Anthias mouth.I have read about it but it wasnt until the other day i caught it in action. Not the best Vid its from the phone. @ about :45 seconds in
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[inactive]

Dude that's awesome!

 

[kingfisherfleshy]

Never gotten it on video or picture...but my skunk does the same thing. I had one where fish would actually line up to get cleaned...he would climb on the larger fish and do his thing. The one I have currently used to "wrestle" over a goby to open up its gill plate and do work on the inside! It was like he knew exactly what was wrong and where to look for it. Finally...all the skunks except for my current ones have LOVED people and would clean almost anyones hand. Funny thing is that this one wont, but I had video on my old phone (RIP) of all five of the peppermint shrimp in the same system cleaning my hand at the same time...never had that before. Anyone else have cleaning experiences? What species?

 

[_Alex_]

both my skunks and pepperment will clean on my hand. they have made me bleed before picking at sores on my hand.

my skunks actually saved my perc clown when i had a ick break out they both would pin the clown down and clean it alll out it gills and evreything was cool to watch.

also my blue spot tang likes to get cleaned at night, my chromis the one i have also likes to have its mouth cleaned out.