A healthy reef system has lots of these little cleaner stations. To find the shrimp, look for ledges on the lee side of the current, and for large fish hanging motionless right by the ledge. If you approach slowly without scaring the fish (try appearing disinterested to them- -fish frequently know when they are being looked at), you may get close enough to see the small cleaner shrimp at their station.

Pictured above is a Banded Coral Shrimp

Once you have found them, you realize these tiny creatures are really quite fearless. .

Pictured above is a Pederson Cleaner Shrimp

Many Shrimp live synergistically with Anemones....

In the photo above, a Spotted Cleaner Shrimp is found living with a Giant Anemone

You will find that most cleaner shrimp are willing to walk right up onto your hand, if coaxed properly...Or into the mouth of a huge fish hundreds of times its own size.

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