VIDEO: Blue Streak Cleaner Wrasse ( Labroides dimidiatus) bites me on the lip

Date: July 8, 2018

Turtle Beach

Okinawa Prefecture

Japan

Depth 40 feet or 12 meters underwater

 

This was my first time getting bit by cleaner wrasse. Most of the other sites I dive the cleaner wrasse don't actually interact much with divers. This fish might have been somewhat hungry. I didn't see a great "cleaning station." Cleaning stations are places where other bigger fish come and "park" so that the cleaner wrasse can pick off parasites. Maybe I looked especially dirty. It wasn't terrible pain, but unexpected and created some anxiety about trying to take photos in that area.

 

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