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Each year at the Aquarium of the Pacific, 200,000 children connect with nature and learn about different kinds of marine life from the aquarium's focus exhibits.

  • grant: $668,000 - Aquarium of the Pacific

    To support the Aquarium’s educational programs and research projects.

  • topic: aquariums

  • topic: education

  • location: long beach

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guardians of the sea: aquarium of the pacific

The warm, 80-degree waters of Micronesia contain an astounding 2,100 islands. Considered by many to be among the most beautiful in the world, Palau’s waters contain an incredible diversity of coral, fish, and other colorful marine life. This Live Cam represents the beautiful marine life you would find off the coast of Palau.

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location: Long Beach, CA

best viewing hours: 7:30am - 9:00pm

time zone: Pacific Time

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Wrasse most commonly inhabit areas that have an abundance of both food and places to hide, making coral reefs and rocky shores the perfect home.

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There are more than 500 different species of wrasse found in the shallower coastal waters and coral reefs, of the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans.

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Cleaner wrasse often go into the mouths of large marine animals to feed on dead tissues and parasites that lurk inside. Few are actually eaten by the predator they assist.

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Wrasse are carnivorous animals with thick lips and a row of teeth that usually face outwards. The mouth of the wrasse is protractile, meaning that it is capable of extending forward.

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Anthias and most wrasses are protogynous hermaphrodites. This means they are born female but if a dominant male perishes, the largest female of the group will change into a male to take its place.

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Clownfish are protandrous hermaphrodites: they mature as males and the largest one will change into a female when the resident female dies.

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Anthias make up a sizeable portion of the population of pink, orange and yellow fishes seen swarming in most coral reefs.

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Anthias form complex social structures called “harems” based on the number of males and females, and also their position on the reef itself.

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Within the swarm of females, territorial male anthias perform acrobatic displays and vigorously defend an area of the reef.

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Clownfish have a simbiotic relationship with their anemone host. They rarely move more than a foot from the protection of their host anemone.

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Clownfish are territorial, aggressively defending their host and area by tail beating, chasing, and biting at the intruder’s head, abdomen, and fins.

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Young clownfish slowly adapt to living in a stinging anemone by making quick contacts with its tentacles.

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Clownfish chase away fish that try to eat their anemone. They also clean their anemone, removing parasites and dead skin.

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Clownfish aerate the water around the tentacles of their host anemone, remove waste from its oral disc, and provide nitrogenous waste that the anemone uses as food.

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If a clownfish leaves its host for a period of time, it has to re-adapt to its anemone's stinging cells by going through an elaborate dance-like ritual.

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The ability of juvenile clownfish to locate the same host anemones preferred by their parents is believed to be due to an olfactory stimulus imprinted at the time of egg incubation.
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Each year at the Aquarium of the Pacific, 200,000 children connect with nature and learn about different kinds of marine life from the aquarium's focus exhibits.

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