Friday, March 19, 2010

Interesting facts about the clown fish

Today i will share with you some interesting facts about the clown fish,

1. A fascinating ability of the Clown fish is its ability to change sex. This Clown Fish Fact makes the fish even more fascinating. On the top of the scale is the reproducing female followed by the mating male. Below them are a bunch of non-mating (single) males. But if the female dies, the whole scale gets a bit messed up. The highest male then morphs into a female and chooses a partner from the various single males. When they are born all Clown Fish are males and As they grow the predominant male will morph into the female.

2.Clown fish are normally not eaten by other fish because of their protection from the anemone, normally they were not hunted because they would stay in their own quiet corner of a coral reef but following the movie "finding nemo", aquariums have been trying to find their own nemo for display in their salt water tanks, although this is not damaging the fish itself, it is damaging the habitation of clown fish in their original reefs.

3.There are 28 known types of clown fish, the most popular being the one that looks like nemo, it is bright orange with white stripes. Most other clown fish can have colours such as orange,yellow,maroon,black and many others. clown fish are normally 2 inches to 5 inches long.

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