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When a clown fish is protected by an anemone's tentacles what is called?
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How are clown fish protected from the stinging cells of the tentacles they swim around?
The clown fish are coated in mucous which makes them immune to the anemones poison as well as secreting a chemical which neutralizes the anemones poison.
How do clown fish react to other fish?
They avoid other fish and stay in the protected area of their host Anemones' tentacles in order to avoid being eaten.
What makes a sea unique?
Sea anemones coexist with clown fish, who are not bothered by the anemone sting. The clown fish hide from their enemies inside the anemones and the anemone eats scraps from the clown fish. . The clown fish also clean the sea anemone's tentacles.
What food does the clown fish eat?
The orange-clown anemonefish are prey for a number of fish such as sharks, stingrays, and other larger bony fishes as well as moray eels. While the eggs are susceptible to predators as well. Humans also prove to be the biggest danger because they are captured and taken from the ocean to be sold or kept.
Do sea anemones have any symbiotic relationships with any other organisms?
Yes, the Clown Fish lives within the Sea Anemone getting protection from it's tentacles.
How does clown fish protect themselves and from whom?
they protect themselves from larger carnivorous fish by hiding among the tentacles of Sea Anemones- which would sting and eat the larger fish... The Clown fish is immune to the Sea Anemone's stings.
How does a sea anemone defend itself?
Its tentacles have stinging cells that can kill fish. Clown fish, and some damselfish, live in a symbiotic relationship with the anemones and can avoid becoming their prey.
What is the symbiotic relationship is between clown fish and sea anemone?
The anemone will protect a clownfish, the only fish that the anemone will not sting.
What anemones do clown fish live in?
sea anemone
How does Sea anemones move?
they are animals that doesn't move only the move in there recital for an inchs only and we classify it as predator because its a flower
Clown fish In a food web?
Clown fish are small saltwater fish that spend their lives living safely among the tentacles of sea anemones. They are fairly aggressive and don't always get along with other fish. They get their name from the bight colors and stripes on their bodies.
What ocean zone clown fish live in?
Clown fish live in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, in anemones.
