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Birth & Hatching

  • Start as eggs laid on a piece of coral, rock or just near the anemone where they live.
  • At this place the male clown fish protects the eggs by building a nest around them.
  • From about 100 - 100 000 eggs are laid
  • They hatch in about 7 days
  • (All clown fish start off as males)

Fry (Young clown fish)

  • The newly hatched clown fish are called Fry
  • The Fry must catch their own food. They will usually go for small, slow organisms that they can catch easily.
  • The Fry start off in a very orange colour but with age they become a darker shade.
  • At this stage the clown fish are beginning to adapt to their anemones.

Adult Clown Fish

  • The adult clown fish have gone from Fry that are only a few MMs long to adults that are approximately 11cm
  • At about this age of adult hood the clown fish either remains male or becomes female.
  • The biggest clown fish will always become female.

Mating

  • Clown Fish mate at about the same time each year in tropical waters
  • The male clown fish attracts the female clown fish through courting (biting, chasing, holding out fins)
  • The mating is sometimes called the mating dance.
  • The clown fish then chase each other to where the eggs will be laid and the process restarts.

Mating Dance

References

  • http://tolweb.org/treehouses/?treehouse_id=3390
  • http://www.forumopolis.com/showthread.php?t=108263
  • http://animals.nationalgeographic.com.au/animals/fish/clown-anemonefish/
  • http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070208155512AA4dZ6k
  • http://cbartazo.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/clown-fish-21.jpg

The Life Cycle of a

Clown Fish

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