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How do clownfish and help sea anemone?
What are all the ways that a anemone protect the clownfish
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.
What does an anemone do for a clownfish?
It will protect it
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 does a clowfish do for an anemone?
The Clownfish feeds on the small invertebrates in the anemone which might otherwise damage it. Also it's suggested that the faeces generated by the Clownfish acts as a fertilizer for the anemone.
How do clownfish eat?
Clownfish eat the leftovers from fish on the anemone and algae.
Where do clownfish sleep at night?
In their anemone
What is a clownfish job?
A clownfish have 3 primary job scope, namely - Wear your strips proudly - Look cute - Behave busily around the anemone
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.
What symbiotic is the clownfish and the sea anemone?
mutualism
Where does clownfish make its home?
in a sea anemone
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.
