We've got a cleaner shrimp, and he's started cleaning!

So we've reached our quota on fish for the tank, the "no vacancy" sign is on out front of the aquarium. We have our two clownfish, blue tang, firefish, royal gramma, and lawnmower blenny. In saltwater aquariums, you have to limit the quantity of fish per gallon much moreso than in freshwater.

That limit doesn't prohibit adding invertebrates. So last weekend we bought a fighting conch snail, a frag (piece) of coral, and a cleaner shrimp.

Not two days after putting the cleaner shrimp in the tank, he set up a "cleaning station" like the literature says they do, and started cleaning the blue tang! They clean parasites and dead skin off of fish on the reef, and they'll do it in the aquarium too. I sorta got a picture of the action, see below!