While the two baby clownfish were having a wonderful time playing in and out of the anemone, daddy and mommy were very busy swimming all around the anemone to make sure nobody in the sea would come too close. Anybody who dares to challenge the parent clownfish gets chased off. All the fish in the sea agree that it is a good thing that clownfish are not too big, because if they were, they would surely be one of the most dangerous animals under the water! When the little clownfish become too playful, their parents tell them to stop clowning around. Maybe that is why they are called clownfish. Because they are still babies they stay very close to the anemone and never leave it. The Clownfish family is very happy in the anemone and would not want to live anywhere else.

One day a big red Grouper comes swimming along the reef, minding his own business. He has noticed this pretty anemone on top of the rock, with the nice fat little fish sheltering in its arms, and comes a bit closer to have a better look at these tasty morsels. Imagine his shock and surprise, when suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, there are two yapping, yellow blurs coming straight for him. He does not hesitate for a moment, and as fast as he can, he flees into the blue distance.

The grouper turns around so quickly and so unexpectedly that his tail accidentally catches the anemone. The two little clownfish are swept right out of the anemone by the big fish's tail. They are blown away from their mommy and daddy on the strong water current in a big cloud of sand and dust. They tumble higgledy piggeldy over backwards, down to the bottom of the sea. It happens so quickly that it is all over before anybody knows what has happened.

When the water stops swirling the little clownfish around and around, they try to see where they are, but they cannot see a thing. All the sand in the water has been stirred up by the big fish's tail and now they do not know where their home or their mommy and daddy are.

"What was that? What happenned?" says one of the little clownfish.

"Where has everyone gone? We must go and look for them and find them quickly. Maybe it is that way," says the other and peers into the distance where there is a dark shape, barely visible. Every other direction in which they look reveals nothing, just vast empty space. This is all a bit frightening, but finally they pluck up their courage and carefully pick their way among the pebbles and stones on the bottom, until they have reached the dark shape. This turns out to be a big rock, standing in the middle of a sandy patch. But they cannot see their mommy and daddy anywhere.