CLOWN FISH

CHARACTERISTICS: Orange colour with three white stripes that divide their body and represent perfect camouflage within their natural environment, so that they may go unnoticed by predators by blending into the tentacles of the anemones they live in. Their size varies between 5 and 8 cm. This size will depend on their hierarchical position.
DIET: They are animals that like to pursue the small prey that serve as their food.
REPRODUCTION: Their gender is determined by their environment and their maturity (this takes place between 12 and 24 months of age). Every time that the dominant female dies or is expelled from the group, the most dominant male changes to female, and the rest of the males change rank in the hierarchy.
CURIOSITIES: They live closely associated to anemones and there are various theories about whey they can survive the itchy sting of the anemones, with the greatest consensus surrounding the one that says that the mucous coating of the fish imitates the anemone.