Here’s something they didn’t tell us in Finding Nemo: all clownfish are born male. This makes clownfish mums unique in nature because, not only have they switched sex, they are the only female in their community. This queen is treated royally as the alpha. Physically the largest, she has a posse of smaller male suitors to take care of the young and defend her. The clownfish mother will lay up to a thousand eggs on coral or rocks near sea anemones throughout the year. The ‘chosen’ male (usually t