Cleaning Crew
by Jean Noren
Title
Cleaning Crew
Artist
Jean Noren
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
These shrimp are reef walkers or hangers and spend almost all there life on the reef. They dare not venture out into open sand for fear of being eaten by an ambush or stationary predator. They will commonly establish cleaning stations with other fish where they clean debris and parasites off of their host. It is an amazing this to see in nature when a turtle is cleaned by a fish then the fish in turn is cleaned by a cleaner shrimp. They will actually climb inside bigger fishes (groupers) and eels mouths to clean the parasites and bacteria off the surface of the mouth. These two cleaned my fingernails after I took their photo. Taken during a dive using an housed Canon 20D.
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March 14th, 2012
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