Six line wrasse eats ich off other fish????

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Originally Posted by naesco

I would continue with the garlic extract treatment. It is keeping the ich in check. Don't stop the feeding.
As you know, the chances that the clearner wrasse you bought lasting more than a few weeks are remote.

I plan on continuing to soak the food still with garlic extract and selcon.

The wrasse I bought had been performing cleaning duties for about a month on other fish at the LFS. The wrasse is plump and very healthy looking, he is eating chopped up mysis and has been cleaning the other fish in the tank. He is usually out in the open swimming along with everyone and all the fish seem get along well each other.

I think the problems with about 95% of cleaner wrasses are:

It's almost impossible to find a healthy one, never mind one that eats frozen foods.

If you find one semi-healthy they might last a little while, but if they are only eating parasites off other fish, that will not be enough to sustain them for the long run.

From what I understand most cleaner wrasses (best case scenario) will live for about 2 years. Most die within a couple of weeks.

I think that because my cleaner wrasse seems healthy, is swimming out in the open, and eats mysis, I have a good chance of having him around for awhile.

Here's a pic

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