wrasse

All of these wrasse are born female, and only become male in this situation.

Oval in shape, this is a small, deep bodies wrasse.

Growing to about 12cms, it is yet another easily accommodated and very beautiful wrasse.

It may chase the wrasse away or go off to find another cleaning station, never to return.

Also, a name applied to a species of wrasse.

They are a popular bait for all types of wrasse and pollock.

But sometimes the cleaner wrasse eats more than just worms.

'More saddle wrasse than anything else,' she said in some disappointment.

Large and secretive, this wrasse has a long body of up to 45 centimetres.

The client fish receives a cleaning, and the wrasse a meal.

So the question is, given such negative consequences, Why do the wrasse sometimes eat mucus?

Supplies of this pretty little wrasse are frequently received from the Maldives.

The humphead wrasse is long lived, but has a very slow breeding rate.

Wrasse are common in both public and home aquaria.

Generally active by day, wrasse are some of the most colourful and strikingly marked fish.

Fish bones from bream and wrasse were also present.

In the Bluestreak cleaner wrasse, there is only one male for every group of 6-8 females.

But truth be told, wrasse prefer skin mucus over parasites.

It not only looks like the wrasse in terms of size and colour, but even mimics the cleaner's 'dance'.

The researchers also noticed that wrasse would avoid cheating if other bream were watching.

My stomach flopped like a wrasse on the grass.

Left and centre top: Male ocellated wrasse nest building.

It was released by Wrasse Records on 16 October 2006.

Pseudojuloides is a genus of wrasse in the family Labridae.

They are known to clean other fish, but may mimic the wrasse to inhibit predators from eating it.