Diving in Madeira from Madeira Divepoint in Madeira 2016Scroll down the page to view my photographs
This year was marked lots of Red-backed Cleaner Shrimps getting in on the photographs! In many photographs they are associating with Moray eels and Dusky Groupers at cleaning stations. In this photograph at Garajau dive site in the National Marine Reserve of Madeira may look as if the Brown Moray eel is looming out of the shadows, about to ambush the shrimp but this is not the case. The Cleaner Shrimps and the Moray have a symbiotic relationship. The shrimp will eat parasites that it finds on the Moray's body and in return the Moray will not eat the shrimp. Indeed, like fish, will even allow the shrimp into its mouth to clean its teeth!
Brown Moray Eel and Red-backed Cleaner Shrimp at Garajau dive site
Diving in Madeira from Madeira Divepoint in Madeira 2016
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