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Originally Posted by justinl
forget it. this fish is an extremely bad choice because all they eat is fish parasites; and even the rare few who accept prepared foods often die long before they should. The number of successful cases can be counted on your hands... the number of unsuccessful cases that end up with dead cleaner wrasses every year is something I don't even want to know. these are better left in the ocean to clean wild stock of parasites... if you've ever seen a line of fish waiting for a single cleaner wrasse's services in a wild reef, you would know why.
edit: another solution you might look into is neon gobies.
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This is odd to me. I know 5 people including myself who have cleaner wrasses and have had them for over or close to a year. All of them eat nori and some eat mysis as well. These five wrasses were all eating in the lfs before being bought. Maybe the trick is to buy one that is already eating. I tried neon gobies because I was told they were a better choice but the two I had went into the rock he first day we bought them and I never saw them again. Guessing they died or got eaten.