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Bluestreak cleaner wrasse
Labroides dimidiatus
Eight centimetres long, and large predators queue up for its services.
- How often
- Common
- Group
- Fish
- Visible while snorkelling
- Visible while snorkelling

A small blue and black fish that runs a cleaning station on the reef, eating parasites and dead tissue off other fish. Clients arrive, adopt a still posture with fins spread and gills open, and wait their turn, including groupers and morays that would eat the cleaner in any other context.
The station is a fixed location that the same wrasse works for years, and the reef's fish know exactly where it is.
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Tell us the species and the date · the captain plans the boat around the conditions.
