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What are all the ways that a anemone protect the clownfish
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What symbiotic is the clownfish and the sea anemone?
mutualism
Where does clownfish make its home?
in a sea anemone
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 help sea anemone?
By cleaning it and sometimes also by attracting passively other fishes.
The clownfish and the sea anemoe?
meaning that they benefit each other in some way. The clownfish lives among the tentacles of the sea anemone, which provides it with protection from predators. The clownfish lives among the tentacles of the sea anemone, which provides it with protection from predators. The clownfish, in turn, helps to defend the sea anemone from predators and parasites and may also bring food to the anemone by feeding on small organisms that live near the anemone. The clownfish also helps to keep the anemone clean by removing debris and waste from around it. Some species of clownfish are even known to nudge or push the tentacles of the anemone to help them capture food. The clownfish, in turn, helps to defend the sea anemone from predators and parasites and may also bring food to the anemone by feeding on small organisms that live near the anemone. The clownfish also helps to keep the anemone clean by removing debris and waste from around it Some species of clownfish are even known to nudge or push the tentacles of the anemone to help them capture food. Overall, the relationship between the clownfish and the sea anemone is an example of mutualism, where both species benefit from the relationship.
What kind of relationship does a sea anemone and a clownfish have?
The relationship of the clown fish and sea anemone is symbiotic in that the clownfish, having a coating of mucous that makes it immune to the anemone's deadly sting, can swim in safety in the anemone's tentacles, meanwhile attracting other fish as food for the anemone.
What does clown fish use for shelter?
Clownfish have a symbiotic relationship with anemone. The clownfish deliver nutrients to the anemone in the form of waste, and the anemone protects the clownfish from predators. Anemones, like other cnidarians, have stingers called nematocysts which are used for protection.
How is the clownfish immune to the sea anemone's stings?
* the adaptation is that the clownfish blends in with orange colors at the bottom of the sea.
