Meet The Clown Fish

The Clown fish is bright orange with three distinctive white bars. Clown anemonefish reach about 4.3 inches (11 centimeters) in length. They are named for the multicolored sea anemone which they make their home. Clownfish perform an elaborate dance with an anemone before making it their official home by gently touching its tentacles with different parts of their bodies until they are acclimated to their host. A layer of mucus on the clownfish's skin makes it immune to the fish-eating anemone's lethal sting. Most clown fish live in the Indian Ocean, Red Sea and the western Pacific. They are not found in the Caribbean, Mediterranean or Atlantic Ocean. Something interesting about the Clown Fish is that all of them are born male. Weird huh? They have the choice to change their sex, but will only do it to become the dominant female of a group. The change however is irriversable. Clown Fish eat algae, plankton and some shellfish. They eat by other fish's leftovers on the anemone.