living among the deadly tentacles of an anemone has a clear advantage most predators stay away another benefit for the clownfish is that it is able to eat anemone's leftover bits food. but what it the advantage to the anemone there are several. first, the brightly colored clownfish attracts predators. when clownfish swims under anemone's tentacles to safety, if the predator follows, the anemone has the chance to sting and eat it. other services the claownfish performs are cleaning up food scraps and dead anemone tentacles, and chasing away fish that might eat the anemone