Cleaner Wrasses Opinions

[miaheatlvr]

I went to the LFS earlier and just saw like 10 cleaner wrasses in a bag ready for acclimation and sale, me myself will not buy CW's anymore and i kind of felt bad for the fate that these fishes would be in. I knew that 9 out of 10 would probably be dead within a month and I for one would not but one and contribute to that. I remember when i was young and bought one because i thought they were so cool later to find it dead within a month. NOW even though my CLEANER SHRIMP DONT CLEAN ANYTHING neither MY FIRE SHRIMP, I am so very happy with my neon goby, who is fastly becoming $ for $ my favorite most important fish in my tank, He has so much personality cruising around and setting up his cleaning station, there is no need to buy a cleaner wrasse! Here is something I never thought i would see,, he goes into my GOLDEN HEAD SLEEPERS MOUTH to clean,, COOL, what do you think? p.s Neon Gobbies do not need parasites to live, mine loves cyclopeeze!

 

[chutneyjh]

It seems almost unethical to keep them to me. I know some members have kept them successfully, but I talked to the guy at my LFS and they only get them in with new shipments to clean parasites off the new fish. And then they basically let them die, or sell them to some unsuspecting customer.

 

[poniegirl]

Originally Posted by chutneyjh
It seems almost unethical to keep them to me. I know some members have kept them successfully, but I talked to the guy at my LFS and they only get them in with new shipments to clean parasites off the new fish. And then they basically let them die, or sell them to some unsuspecting customer.
Nice.
I think if you can feed him enough to satisfy and he gets the natural urge to housekeep fulfilled, then hurray!
How long have you had him?

 

[miaheatlvr]

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