Cleaner Wrasse

[ToXIc]

Hey R2R i'm thinking about getting a Cleaner Wrasse and i've ready up on it.. see link below.

Cleaner Common Wrasse

but my LFS states it may pick on some stuff.. i have a mixed reef.. and wondering if they do in fact pick on corals..

please share you input..

 

[ThaBeast]

I have an African cleaner from DD and he doesn't pick on anything, but I feed my tank heavily. I have a couple of others I acquired and got them to eat easily using cycop-eeze. I have seen them pick at the rocks and glass, but not bother any coral. This is NOT a beginner fish, make sure you know what you are signing up for. I use a 65g QT tank with liverock barebottom and am setup to do 50%waterchanges quickly when the water quality deteriorates from the attempts at feeding.

 

[Eynonreefer]

I have the same cleaner in my system for the past 2 years. Mine has never picked at at corals or inverts. I see it picking at the rocks and that's it. I got lucky because mine ate everything from the start including flake, and is one of the best eaters in the tank. But as HndMafia stated this is not a beginner fish by any means, I just got very lucky.

 

[SaraB]

I have seen them pick at the rocks and glass, but not bother any coral. This is NOT a beginner fish, make sure you know what you are signing up for.

I have one too and it will pick at the rocks, glass, eat Nori but it also likes to pick on all my snails by nipping at their "foot" and getting them to fall off the glass and rocks where he can continue to bother them on the sandbed.

I too agree that this is not a easy fish to keep as many perish ...

 

[SaraB]

Reading material:

Cleaner Wrasse Primer - Reef Central Online Community