Tag: Cleaning Station

A giant moray is being cleaned by a small cleaner shrimp working directly at the eel's head. The scene shows a typical cleaning symbiosis on the reef, in which the shrimp removes parasites and dead skin tissue.
A batfish is being cleaned by two cleaner wrasses on the reef. The golden-brown fish with its distinctive skin texture is illuminated by artificial light, highlighting the details of the gill openings and its intense coloration.
A coral grouper opens its mouth wide while a small blue cleaner wrasse tends to it. The scene shows a typical reef symbiosis in which the cleaner fish removes parasites and dead skin from inside the grouper's mouth.
A small banded cleaner shrimp with a semi-transparent body and distinctive red antennae and bluish body areas is visible on a coral. The fine, transparent legs and antennae are clearly recognisable, highlighting the delicate structure of this cleaner shrimp.
A majestic manta ray glides elegantly over a coral reef while small cleaner fish work along its underside. Further reef fish are visible in the background, surrounding this impressive cleaning station.
A colourful sweetlips fish displays its characteristic striped pattern in turquoise, yellow and green. The macro portrait impressively captures the bright yellow eyes and the typical thick, fleshy lips of this reef dweller. A cleaner wrasse is visible inside its mouth, cleaning the gills.
A transparent cleaner shrimp with characteristic white spots and reddish markings on the tail fan is visible against the closed mouth of a giant moray. The shrimp displays its typical long white antennae and translucent body with striking colour accents.
A majestic reef manta glides elegantly over a coral bank in the blue water. The whitish underside with characteristic dark spots and gill slits is clearly visible, while small cleaner fish accompany the manta.
A giant moray eel with its mouth open is being cleaned by several transparent cleaner shrimps. The shrimps are inside and around the moray's mouth, carrying out their symbiotic cleaning work.
A moray eel with its mouth wide open and teeth visible lurks in a reef crevice. To the left of the frame, a vivid red shrimp is visible — possibly a cleaner shrimp in a symbiotic relationship with the moray.
Several reef mantas at a cleaning station above a reef. A large dark manta in the foreground with clearly visible underside markings, a second lighter manta in the background. Small reef fish surround the scene.
A spectacular underwater scene with several majestic manta rays gliding elegantly over a colourful coral reef. In the foreground, a large manta ray with characteristic white underside swims while further mantas are visible in formation in the background.
A group of manta rays glides majestically through the blue water above a cleaning station on the reef. The large rays display their typical behaviour of being cleaned by small cleaner fish, as they hover elegantly above the coral-covered reef.