Getting to work

A Giant Porcupinefish is serviced by a cleaner wrasse in the waters off Hawaii

A Giant Porcupinefish waits patiently while a Hawaiian Cleaner Wrasse gets to work. Cleaner wrasses remove dead tissue, parasites and mucus from fish of all sizes that visit their cleaning stations. Watch out for those spines!

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    1. Graham's avatarGraham Post author

      Basically, they set up territories where they ply their trade. I’ve been here 12 years now and I see cleaning stations in the exact same places now as when I first arrived.

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