Normal?

[member 99594]

I have since added a cleaner wrasse, about two months ago. He is always picking at the yellow tang.

Today I notice what looks to be dry skin around his eye and mouth area. Does this look normal?

 

[P-Dub]

That's one hungry cleaner wrasse. I have never found a cleaner wrasse to be able to live in a captive system unless it is HUGE with a literal boatload of fish. Unless you can find one that eats other food it will pick at fish. Then the fish gets picked at enough that the fish develops irritation and keeps going back to the cleaner to deal with the irritation and so on till the subject fish perishes. I've seen it before. Here is a video.

 

[member 99594]

He eats from the rocks and sand. He even will pick at feeding time. (Mysis, bloodworms etc)