Clown Fish

Clown Fish Facts
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Family: Pomacentridae
Genus: Amphiprion
Common Name: Clown Fish
Scientific Name: Amphiprioninae
Origin: Indian, Pacific Oceans
Diet: Omnivore
Size (L): 10cm - 18cm (4in - 7in)
Water Type: Salt
Optimum pH Level: 7.9 - 8.4
Lifespan: 4 - 8 years
Conservation Status: Least Concern
Colour: Black, White, Orange, Red, Yellow
Skin Type: Scales
Favourite Food: Algae
Habitat: Tropical coral reefs
Average Clutch Size: 2,000
Main Prey: Algae, Plankton, Molluscs
Predators: Fish, Eels, Sharks
Distinctive Features: Bright markings and immune to stings from the sea anemone

The clown fish (otherwise called the anemone fish) is a little type of fish that is found around tropical coral reefs. The most ordinarily known types of clown fish are orange with white markings however clown fish can be found in various hues and can likewise vary fit as a fiddle. There are 28 perceived types of clown fish that are found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The clown fish is likewise found as far north as the Red Sea and possesses the Great Barrier Reef, on the Australian east drift. The clown fish has turned into a well-known aquarium pet.Clown fish occupy a solitary ocean anemone in bunches that incorporate the reproducing male and female and various more youthful male clown fish. All clown fish are conceived male and create female conceptive organs when required. At the point when the female in the ocean anemone gather bites the dust, the predominant male ends up female and breeds with one the guys that are possessing a similar ocean anemone.

Female clown fish lay their eggs on a level surface near the ocean anemone which they occupy. The female clown fish can lay hundreds or thousands of eggs at one time contingent upon the species. Clown fish lay their eggs around an indistinguishable time from a full moon and the male clown fish monitors the eggs until the point that they bring forth a little more than seven days after the fact.The clown fish was made most acclaimed from the prominent youngsters' film Finding Nemo. Oceanic stores and clown fish raisers announced a critical increment in the prominence of the clown fish albeit numerous individuals did not understand the work that goes into keeping marine fish so tragically, the greater part of clown fish purchased at the time immediately kicked the bucket. The clown fish is additionally celebrated for it's appearing in-susceptibility to the stings of the ocean anemone. Most clown fish are discovered either in or around ocean anemones which the clown fish possesses both for insurance from predators yet, in addition, the preparation of nourishment.

Clown fish are omnivorous creatures implying that they eat the two plants and creatures. Clown fish eat an extensive variety of sustenance, for example, green growth, microscopic fish, mollusks and little shellfish. The eating regimen of the Clown fish is however to a great extent reliant on the types of clown fish and what sustenance is accessible in the territory which they possess. Because of their little size, Clown fish are gone after by various predators, however, can be hard to get are they frequently withdraw into the wellbeing of the ocean anemone. Huge types of fish, sharks, and eels are the principal predators of the Clown fish in the water, however, the human is the greatest general risk to the Clown fish as they are gotten to keep in tanks and aquariums.Notwithstanding the rising levels of contamination on the planet's seas and obliteration of the living spaces on the sea depths, clown fish are not thought to be a debilitating type of creature for the most part since they lay such a significant number of eggs at any given moment. Despite the fact that not the majority of the clown fish eggs will bring forth, an immense number of clown fish broil bring forth in each brings forth implying that clown fish numbers stay high in nature.