This morning, we watched several species of fish solicit cleaning behavior from Hawaiian cleaner wrasse. The cleaners have established stations in little round coral heads and the fish wanting to be cleaned just show up. They often assume odd postures (like head down and tail up) to convey to the the cleaner that they want to be rid of their external parasites.
Most of the fish looking to be cleaned were convict surgeonfish, named for their black bars.
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| This photo shows the cleaner wrasse the best |
We also found a raccoon butterflyfish
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| The wrasse is just below the butterflyfish |
And an ornate butterflyfish
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| The cleaner wrasse is just in front of this butterflyfish |
After a morning in the water, the skies opened up and a thunderstorm dumped lots of rain on this part of the island. Stay dry!
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