The Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse is difficult to care for only because of its feeding habits. They are unable to store large amounts of food and must be fed throughout the day.
Otherwise, the Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse is quite easy to care for given a suitable tank. They can often live over eight years, with the only difficult hurdle being their feeding. The Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse needs plenty of swimming space along with enough rockwork to swim through.
They will also select a spot in the rockwork to be their cleaning station. Additionally these wrasse should be kept with a sandbed, as they may choose to bury themselves for the night. Unlike cleaner shrimp, the Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse will not harass corals and steal their foods, making them great for reef tanks in need of a cleaner. An odd requirement the Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse has is tank mates. They must have multiple fish to clean, as they almost never stop trying to service other fish.
With too few fish in the tank this can lead to bullying by the Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse. Large tangs make for great tank mates. The Bluestreak cleaner wrasse is a tropical fish with beautiful, distinct markings and the adaptation that it makes a living on the reef or in a saltwater aquarium by eating the dead scales and parasites off the outside of the other fish in your tank.
Some of my favorite underwater images are of a fearless Labroides dimidiatus searching for parasites inside the mouth of a much larger predator fish. These fish are commonly available and are generally inexpensive in saltwater aquarium stores—but buyer beware, these beautiful saltwater fish have a notoriously difficult time adapting to aquarium conditions.
Bluestreak cleaner wrasse quick facts What does a cleaner wrasse do? Can you keep 2 cleaner wrasse together? Is the Bluestreak cleaner wrasse reef safe?
Do cleaner wrasse eat ich? Are bluestreak cleaner wrasse hard to keep? Other more suitable cleaner species. The Bluestreak cleaner wrasse inhabits all areas of coral reefs, including outer reefs and lagoons where it can quickly seek refuge from predators, from depths of 3 to 98 feet—can you imagine having a foot deep aquarium?
The reefs where the Bluestreak lives are found in Eastern Africa, The Red Sea, and even Japan and are plentiful in the wild not endangered , which likely speaks to their relatively low retail price. They love warm waters with other docile saltwater fish that they can pick a meal off of. These are not shoaling fish, but rather form pairs or small groups one male with a few females.
These groups will set-up cleaning stations where they feed. Traditional reef aquarium water parameters are adequate and appropriate. These saltwater fishes are also relatively hardy, tolerant of water conditions, and like many other wrasse species, are bold, active swimmers that perform acrobatics in the water column, which is what endears them to the casual local fish store shopper.
But the biggest challenge in successfully caring for them in your reef tank is to meet their nutritional requirements.
Want to see them in action? Check out this Bluestreak cleaner wrasse taking care of a yellow tang. Labroides dimidiatus is a cleaner fish that generally struggles to acclimate to more traditional reef aquarium food. Because of that, most of these poor little guys and gals end up starving to death in our tanks. Properly caring for them, therefore, generally means having a tank large enough and stocked heavily enough meaning lots of fish with loose scales, parasites, etc.
You will need to make sure to have a secure lid on your tank as this breed of fish is known to jump out of the water with ease. These fish tend to enjoy all levels of the aquarium and never stay in one particular area for a long period of time. They are perpetual motion machines, much like the six-line wrasse, and other popular wrasse species. Search Advanced search…. New posts. Search forums. Log in. Install the app. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Life span of the blue streak cleaner wrasse. JarsOMayonnaise Member. I am hunting for the "normal" life span of the Labroides dimidiatus The max reported age is 4 years but they rarely live long in captivity. This combined with the removal of a fish that is necessary to the reef there is ample reason not to purchase one. There is a false cleaner wrasse that is much more likely to live.
There are also a number of shrimp that set up cleaning stations and are just as fun to watch. The rumor of the fish eating ich is also false. There have been several studies were the stomach contents of the fish in a tank with ich and none of them had eaten the ich parasite.
Hey Prow, share your link. The longest I found was 4 years. I would love to read about one that lived longer. They are a really cool fish particularly in their native habitat. Another fish that gets my attention just goes in and out with the daily sun LOL.
LOL You need to pick other fish. How about a midas blenney or a six line wrasse.
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