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  2. Cleaner fish - Wikipedia

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    Cleaner fish are used to eat parasitic sea lice from salmon to reduce outbreaks which cause disease in populations. The two most commonly used cleaner fish are the lumpfish, Cyclopterus lumpus, and the ballan wrasse Labrus bergeylta.

  3. Wrasse - Wikipedia

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    Cleaner wrasses are the best-known of the cleaner fish. They live in a cleaning symbiosis with larger, often predatory, fish, grooming them and benefiting by consuming what they remove. "Client" fish congregate at wrasse "cleaning stations" and wait for the cleaner fish to remove gnathiid parasites, the cleaners even swimming into their open ...

  4. List of brackish aquarium fish species - Wikipedia

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    Freshwater compromises immune system, harms puffer, and shortens life extremely. Commonly kept in freshwater. Often sold as freshwater fish, but this species actually thrives in brackish water. As the fish matures, it requires the salinity levels to slowly increase with age.

  5. Hypostomus plecostomus - Wikipedia

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    In the aquarium trade, this dark-colored, bottom-feeding, nocturnal catfish is often purchased for its ability to clean algae from fish tanks but also contributes a lot of waste to the nitrogen cycle. They are difficult for other fish to harass, both due to the semi-aggressive nature of the fish as well as its thick armor.

  6. Algae eater - Wikipedia

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    Some freshwater shrimp are also excellent algae eaters: Almost all of them belong to the family Atyidae (the only family in the superfamily Atyoidea) including many genera; Caridina: red rhinoceros shrimp, bee shrimp, etc... One shrimp well known for its ability to clean an aquarium is the Amano Shrimp.

  7. Cleaning symbiosis - Wikipedia

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    Cleaners include fish, shrimps and birds; clients include a much wider range of fish, marine reptiles including turtles and iguanas, octopus, whales, and terrestrial mammals.