What Makes Cleaner Shrimp Clean?

[revhtree Verified Admin]

What Makes Cleaner Shrimp Clean? A recent experiment, conducted by Bob Snowden, aquarist of the Pittsburgh Zoo and PPG Aquarium, asks the question ‘what stimuli activate the cleaning behavior in the scarlet cleaner shrimp Lysmata ambionensis?’ While a few studies have been conducted examining how shrimps clean, this is the first one that asks why. [...]

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[revsgirl]

interesting...

 

[fsu1dolfan]

Yeah i never see my cleaner clean any fish...my neon gobies are more effective at cleaning. Just recently added a new fish to my tank and the neon gobies are the ones that greeted and santized him. LOL

 

[_Alex_]

my 2 cleaners saved several of my fish when i had a ick out break the ones that died would not let rhythm clean on em. Now my fish dont use them all the time but when they want to, they just swim over to them and let them do three job. My chromis and tang actually open there mouths to clean in there gills. very cool to watch specially when the fish line up waiting there turn lol