Scuba Diving with Cleaner Shrimp Cleaning My Hands on the Great Barrier Reef near Port Douglas
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This is a treat, here you can see some cleaner shrimp cleaning my hands. They usually wait at a fixed cleaning station and fish come along and alllow them to pick parasites and nasties off their gills and bodies.
Cleaner shrimp is a common name for any swimming decapod crustacean that cleans other organisms of parasites. This is a widely-cited example of cleaning symbiosis: a relationship in which both parties benefit. The fish benefit by having parasites removed from them, and the shrimp gain the nutritional value of the parasites. In many coral reefs, cleaner shrimp congregate at cleaning stations.
A cleaning station is a location where fish, sea turtles, hippos[1] and other aquatic life, freshwater and marine, congregate to be cleaned.
The cleaning process includes the removal of parasites from the animal's body (both externally and internally), and can be performed by various creatures (including cleaner shrimp and numerous species of cleaner fish, especially wrasses and gobies).
Palaemonidae is a family of shrimp in the order Decapoda. Two subfamilies are distinguished: Palaemoninae and Pontoniinae. The Palaemoninae are mainly carnivores that eat small invertebrates and can be found in any aquatic habitat except the deep sea. The most significant palaemonine genus is Macrobrachium, which contains commercial species such as Macrobrachium rosenbergii. The Pontoniinae inhabit coral reefs, where they associate with certain invertebrates such as sponges, cnidarians, mollusks and echinoderms. This group includes cleaner shrimps as well as parasites and commensals. They generally feed on detritus, though some are carnivores and hunt tiny animals.
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