Parasites

[klausi]

I went through my photo collection, and I found that I had quite a few shots of parasites and parasite removal behavior. So I wrote a - hopefully interesting! - blog post about it. Enjoy! You'll also see a picture of the Australian Cleaner Clingfish, which tropical divers and folks outside of Ozland probably haven't seen.

 

[TSandM]

Great article!

We enjoyed watching the Clarion angelfish cleaning Mantas in the Socorros, and my friend Jan Kocian has described cleaning behavior between ling cods and scalyheaded sculpins, who were not previously known to be cleaners. There's still a lot to learn about the sea!

 

[klausi]

I'm glad you liked it. I have seen butterflyfish cleaning, especially juveniles, but the sculpin behavior is new to me. I even had to look up the fish. Interesting!