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What is a clown fish diet?
Clownfish live in a symbiotic relationship with a Sea Anemone. They eat undigested bits and pieces that could possibly harm the sea anemone. Then the anemone eats the harmless faeces of the Clownfish.
How do clownfish and help sea anemone?
What are all the ways that a anemone protect the clownfish
Clownfish and sea anemone are mutualism or commensalism?
It is mutualism because the anemone wards off the clown fish's predators due to their poisonous tentacles, but at the same time the clown fish wards off anemone-eating fish, also ensuring the anemone's survival.
How do sea anemones affect other sea creatures?
Anemones provide food and shelter for clownfish. Clownfish appear to be the only fish that can resist the anemone's stinging poison. When an unsuspecting bigger fish tries to eat the clownfish the clownfish ducks into the anemone and the big fish gets shocked to death by the poison. Then the anemone eats the fish and the clownfish gets the scraps which is fine by it.
How do clownfish eat?
Clownfish eat the leftovers from fish on the anemone and algae.
Does clown fish eat fish?
The clownfish feeds on small invertebrates which could potentially harm the sea anemone, and the fecal matter from the clownfish provides nutrients to the sea anemone. Clownfish are omnivores and so in their particular case they prefer to also eat algae which accounts for around 20 to 25 percent of its diet in the wild. Clownfish in the wild eat scraps of food foraged from sea anemones.
What symbiotic is the clownfish and the sea anemone?
mutualism
Where does clownfish make its home?
in a sea anemone
What does a clown fish eat?
sea weeds small fish
What is an example of mutualism in an estuary?
•The clownfish and the sea anenome benefit each other. It has been suggested that the activity of the clownfish results in greater water circulation around the sea anemone. In addition to providing food for the clownfish, the sea anemone also provides safety due to its poison. The clownfish is dependent on the sea anemone for its daily bread. After the anemone paralyzes and eats a fish, the clownfish will polish off the remaining uneaten bits and pieces. In return, the clownfish helps to keep the anemone free of dead tentacles by eating these. The clown fish also helps the anemone get food by using its bright coloration to lure unsuspecting fish into the vicinity of the anemone.
Do clownfish eat starfish?
No, clownfish do not eat starfish.Clownfish prey on invertebrates caught eating or trying to eat sea anemone. The faeces of clownfish actually contains nutrients valuable to sea anemone. So, essentially, clownfish are important for the defence and growth of sea anemone.Clownfish are omnivores, which means they eat both plants and animals.Live food hunted by clownfish include algae, plankton, molluscs, copepods, mysids, isopods, zooplankton and crustacea. They will even eat unwanted food left by the sea anemones.In captivity they can survive on standard fish food and fish pellets, however they may loose their beautiful natural body colours as a result. Algae accounts for around 20-25% of a clownfish's main diet and should be included in the diet of captive clownfish if they are to survive.no
What is the relationship between clown fish and sea anemone?
The anemone will protect a clownfish, the only fish that the anemone will not sting.
