Did you know that Clownfish are the only fish that
can live in sea anemone without being stung by the tentacles of the anemone? It's true! The clownfish are actually a big help to the anemone. The clownfish live at the bottom of the sea with the host anemone. The clownfish live in two different types of anemone.
In sheltered inshore reefs it lives in Stichodactyla gigantea and one outer reefs it usually lives in Heteractis magnifica.
The colorful fish clean the anemone by eating the algae and food leftovers on the anemone. Clownfish also help to protect the anemone by chasing away poly-eating fish such as the butterfly fish. In return the anemone protects the clownfish. This is known as symbiotic (or living together) association.
Not all anemones are friendly to the clownfish, of more than 1000 types of anemone found around then world only ten (10) act as hosts for the clownfish. All ten species are found in the Indo-Pacific region.
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