Common clown fish – Week Three Task (Educate Others)

The Common clown fish also known as the false clown fish, false percula, and clown anemone fish. Clown fish are found on coral reefs in the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans from northwestern Australia, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Japan’s Ryukyu Islands, and Indonesia. A clown fish’s diet is made up of small invertebrates like marine isopods and zooplankton, organisms killed by the host anemone, and sometimes cast-off parts of the host anemone are consumed as well. A large part of the clown fish’s diet is algae.

Clown fish and Sea Anemones depend on each other to live. This is called Mutualism a symbiosis that is beneficial to both organisms involved. The Clown fish depend on the Sea Anemone for protection from predators which try to consume the Clown fish. And in return the Clown fish cleans the parasites from the Anemone’s body. The Clown fish also prevents Butterfly fishes from consuming the Anemone tentacles.