Marine beauty Parlour?

Marine beauty Parlour??

Cleaner Fish

Cleaner Fish

Do you think only our dear ladies go beauty parlors? Guess what. Fishes go to beauty parlors too. The cleaner fish or Bluestreak Cleaner Wrasse fish (Labroides dimidiatus) cleans all the bacteria from the body surface other fishes. Every kind of fishes go to them. Sometimes, the customers are so many that they have to line up for their turn.

Marine beauty Parlour

Marine beauty Parlour

The cleaner fish not only cleans but gives a gentle massage which calms them and stretches the muscles. Like a parlor, they have a specific place where they provide these services to other fishes, even sharks. The customers keep their heads up to tell that they are customers. And what do they charge for it? Free food and safety of course.

Ayan Chakravarty

Name: Ayan Chakravarty; Home City: Kolkata, India; Role in the website: Content editor and Adviser; Academic Specializations: Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Zoology, Bioinformatics;