cleaner wrasse diet quetions

cain420

cain420

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Ok, so I have heard (after the fact) that a cleaner wrasse needs to eat parasites in order to survive. Here is the scenario:
Everytime I feed, the wrasse eats sooo much cyclopeeze, flake, and yes, even brine! that its little belly bulges.. Anyone have any research on how long it will live on this diet?
I have had him/her for 10 days now, and each and everytime, it fills its little belly up..
 
misfit

misfit

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I've had mine about a year and a half ,he eats everything altough I dont know if and how much parasites he eats.he rarly looks likw he is cleaning but he is growing beautifully
 
ophiura

ophiura

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Some will take to this food but keep the diet diverse. In addition, note that there is a cleaner wrasse, and then there is a mimic of the cleaner wrasse which has very similar colors. This one in fact is not a cleaner but mimics the coloration of the cleaner to be able to approach fish closely and take bites out of them. This one is probably also very likely to take to other feeding.
I have to look up a thread on this but it has come up before...
 
dogstar

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Cleaner wrasse are of the genus Labroides. The most common is the Bluestreak. L. dimidiatus.
The False Claener, Aspidontus taeniatus that mimics the Bluestreak. Distinguished from L. dimidiatus by the position of its mouth, which is terminal in the wrasse but under the snout in the blenny. The False, like all blennies has a long dorsal ( top ) fin growing right into the tail fins and the wrasse has a shorter dorsal fin with space between the dorsal and tail.
 
cain420

cain420

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it is definately not the mimic.. i seen it pick something off my clownfish, and it is always checkin me out through the glass.. i am assuming its lookin for bugs... BTW i dont have any bugs! lol just to throw that in there!
 
ophiura

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It should be noted the mimic would also "pick" on the fish. That is part of the benefit of being the mimic. It just happens to pick off more than the parasite - though probably not noticeably so.
 
dogstar

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Odd for a Clown to allow a cleaner to clean it. None of my damsels will and the wrasse never try. Anythings possible !! I quess. I hope you have other larger fish for it to clean as well.
 
cain420

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does this look like a mimic, or the real deal??
sorry for the blurry-ness.. itll sit still until i try to take a pic.

 
dogstar

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Thats not a wrasse or the false. Thats a Goby. Gobiosoma evelynae. A Blue Neon Cleaner Goby. From what I can tell from the great photo. Does it sit on the rocks alot ?
 
dogstar

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Pick one, if you can tell the differance....Three different Families, Gobies, Blennies, Wrasse, Of the three the goby is best for most hobbiest to try.


 
cain420

cain420

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lol, well they told me its a cleaner wrasse... lol
dumb lfs
so this looks like what? a cleaner goby?
and what would its diet consist of?
i dont think i will visit that lfs again...
 
cain420

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nice answer dogstar thanks for bein a {edit for language}
guess u would rather people just leave the boards
thanks again
why even say anything if u have no answers??
 
teen

teen

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Originally Posted by cain420
nice answer dogstar thanks for bein a smartass
guess u would rather people just leave the boards
thanks again
why even say anything if u have no answers??
im pretty sure he answered your question, and he was the one who found out you have a goby, not a cleaner wrasse.

and its diet consists of pretty much what your feeding it now.
 
dogstar

dogstar

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Originally Posted by cain420
nice answer dogstar thanks for bein a {edit language}
guess u would rather people just leave the boards
thanks again
why even say anything if u have no answers??
It was a simple question....... to try to make you think for a second and maybe make you a better hobbiest.
I answered and tryed my best to help you with your goby.
I post alot on the board myself but I try to be respectfull and not start wars. But when I feel that Im waisting MY time its hard to bite my tounge. But I do. As I said I did not mean to insult you. If you took it that way then Im sorry.
Now would you answer the question please. Im only trying to help you but if you dont SEE that then it fine with me.
 
ophiura

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Whoa...
I don't think that Dogstar's question is unfounded. I mean if people say "dumb LFS" when they are just told the true identity of a fish that they did not know either...??
What can you do? While the question could be interpreted harshly, the response, including uncessary language, is where things turn ugly. Just blow it off and say "nope, not this time...I didn't do the research.
" But to turn to someone who just spent quite a bit of time giving SPECIFIC details about the possible fish?

The question simply is, do you ever do any research on your own, or do you listen to the LFS? Do you ever do any research on your own? Is that really a bad question?
If you listen only to the LFS, you will probably end up in trouble. If this HAD been a cleaner wrasse, it would have been quite unfortunate. But these fish are very very different in behavior and size. Cleaner wrasse are larger and tend to swim much more. On that note, it is a fairly easy distinction to make though coloration is very similar.
Dogstar did have answers, and even took the time to compile a very nice group of pictures. I am sure I will reference this thread in the future simply because of those pictures.

So before casting the first stone, as yourself did you contribute to making this thread unpleasant? I think the language and the response escalated any issue there may have been.
 
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