and can take anywhere from 30 min to two hours. The female swims around in a zigzag (deliberately) while the male follows close behind her and fertilizes her eggs as they are laid. The number of eggs can range from 100 to over 1000 depending on the size of the fish. Hatching generally occurs during the evening around the sixth or seventh day after the eggs are laid. My opinion on this ritual(s) is that it is very intricate and complicated, fragile and sometimes also very cute. I think these characteristics make it completely beautiful.What if you could change your sex, Boy to Girl, Girl to Boy? I personally think that would be totally cool and I would use that quality as much as possible! Luckily True Percula Clownfish posses this characteristic! No lie! The phenomenon of sex reversal is an amazing component of anemonefish life history. The true unusual aspect of sex changes in clownfish is that the change is always from male to female. What basically happens is that when/if the dominant female dies or is somehow removed from the environment the males gonads cease to function as testes and the egg producing cells inside become active. Simultaneously the largest of the non-breeding individuals becomes the functioning male. This allows continuous reproduction, without this an adult would have to wait the arrival of a fish of the appropriate sex. This only happens 50% of the time so by waiting the fish is loosing valuable breeding time and would also have to seek out a mate. Doing this causes many problems, such as, leaving its anemone which leads to risking predation on itself and other aspects as well. This is so astonishing to me and I certainly hope to you also, WOW you know? How many fish have you heard that have traits such as changing their sex in order to keep their population alive. The most astonishing thing to me is that this procedure is just a natural thing to them! I guess its just Mother Nature throwing us more surprises. ...
