Cleaning stations are popular sites on the local reefs, both with fish and with divers. Fish often assume quite odd postures or orientations as they beg to be cleaned.
Today's post features juvenile Spanish hogfish (small, blue and yellow fish) as the cleaners, and a queen parrotfish and creole wrasse begging to be cleaned.
These fish were about 40 feet deep. The queen parrotfish was about 16 inches long. The creole wrasse were about 6 inches long, and the Spanish hogfish were 2 or 3 inches long.
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| Wrasse and parrotfish soliciting cleaning from juvenile hogfish. |
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| Wrasse with mouth open, parrotfish head-up |
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| Queen parrotfish in head-up posture. |
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| Creole wrasse in head-down posture with mouth open. |
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