Seeing clownfish darting among the tentacled folds of an anemone is like watching butterflies flitting around a flowering plant in a breeze-blown meadow—mesmerizing. Twenty-nine species of ...

They run the full spectrum of colors and can be as small as half an inch or as ... a mucus layer that makes them immune to the anemone's sting. Clownfish live within the anemone’s tentacles ...

According to Muraguchi, clownfish live as pairs in their host anemone. It is rare in Japan for an aquarium to keep this many clownfish in a single water tank, he added. Clownfish can also change ...