Smart fish...

[FutureInterest]

Are cleaner wrasse actually self-aware? I picked one of these up from nemo's recently and love it. The lil guy has no fear. It will clean my hand when I am messing with the tank. I've tried the Hawaiian cleaners in the past and none of them will eat but these lil guys love to eat everything that hits the water. They do have very small mouths though so they can't eat the bigger frozen foods.

Anyways, I read this article a few months ago and thought it was interesting that these lil fish are so darn smart:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/...sse-self-aware-mirror-test-intelligence-news/

 

[bcavalli]

Mine was the same way. He always harrased every fish in the tank looking for parasites to eat of the fish. He was a fantastic fish (steve has him now).

 

[FutureInterest]

Aye, it has so much personality. I'm very much so digging it. Not sure why I never had one before.

I found another interesting article on them. Pretty fascinating fish.

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/ne...-the-brain-of-cleaner-wrasse-clever-fish.html

 

[bcavalli]

Thanks for sharing. That’s a great article and everyone who has a tang should definitely keep a cleaner wrasse in their tanks.

 

[boosting99]

Mine does the same and also nice Article to read up on.