FAMILY - Labridae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Labroides rubrolabiatus COMMON NAME - Redlipped Cleaner Wrasse SIZE - 3.5 in (9 cm) RANGE - Eastern Central Pacific: Samoa to the Line and Society islands, French Polynesia and the Pitcairn Group MIN. AQUARIUM SIZE - 50 gal (189 gal) CARE LEVEL - Expert TEMPERAMENT - Peaceful FOODS AND FEEDING - This fish only eats parasites and dead skin off of other fish. Rarely, it can be trained to eat frozen foods. If the fish is being fed frozen food it should be fed a variety of high quality meaty marine frozen foods. AQUARIUM SUITABILITY - Please leave this fish in the ocean REEF COMPATIBILITY - Yes CAPTIVE CARE - This is an extremely difficult fish to keep. They only eat parasites and dead skin off of other fish. They tend to starve to death in our aquariums in a matter of days or weeks. Wrasses are known jumpers so the aquarium top should be covered.
