Blacksmith like to form schools, and sometimes a senorita appears near the center of the school, nipping at the blacksmith. Do the blacksmith appreciate the grooming, and gather around the senorita for their turn? Or do they dislike being nipped: they seem to flinch from the biter. The blacksmith don't wait their turn patiently, like fish at a cleaning station on a coral reef. There the cleaner fish are also wrasse, but much smaller ones. Perhaps the blacksmith would like a younger, or at least smaller, attendant.
This school of blacksmith was near Pyramid Head, on the eastern tip of San Clemente Island. They clustered just off the kelp, in a long school with occasional clumps like this one.
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