We often see creole wrasse on our dives. At times, large numbers of them are up in the water column feeding. They are often streaming down the reef. They bring a rush of bluish purple to many of our dives. They seem to swim constantly, except when they are soliciting cleaning. At that time, they stop and assume unusual postures to communicate with the cleaner fish (or shrimp) that they would like to be cleaned. So, the best time to photograph them is when they are begging to be cleaned. They grow up to a foot long, but these fish were 7 or 8 inches. The photos were taken at depths of 40 to 50 feet.
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| A cleaning goby can be seen on the brain coral, to the left of the wrasse. |
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| A cleaning goby can be seen entering the mouth of the yellowish wrasse in the foreground. |
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