Percula Farm

Percula Farm is a working clownfish breeding operation in Samaesan, a coastal village in Sattahip district south of Pattaya. Entry costs 20 THB for adults, 10 THB for children, daily from 9am to 3:30pm. Visitor reports through 2026 confirm it’s still operating, run on a small scale by the same family that’s bred clownfish here for years.

The farm holds roughly 500 clownfish breeding pairs across about 30 cement tanks arranged over two levels, each pairing housed with its anemone host. Staff explain the breeding cycle as you walk the tank rows — egg clusters guarded by parent pairs, nursery tanks of fry, and grow-out tanks of juveniles headed for aquarium shops. A touch pool near the entrance holds sea urchins and starfish. Beyond the clownfish operation, the farm functions as a breeding centre for close to 100 marine species in total, though clownfish remain the headline attraction and the reason for the name — Amphiprion percula, the orange clownfish species the farm specialises in.

The site backs onto the sea, and an optional boat trip (around 100 THB per person) runs out to floating cages moored offshore, stocked with sharks, groupers, and other reef species that visitors can feed by hand. Life jackets are compulsory on the boat and on the cage platforms — staff enforce this before letting anyone board.

Insider Tip: The boat trip to the cages is the part most visitors skip without knowing it exists — ask at the entrance rather than assuming the tank tour is the whole visit.

Watch out: walkways between tanks get wet and slippery from splashed water and hosing-down, so wear shoes with grip rather than flip-flops.

Morning visits catch the most active feeding, before the midday heat settles over the open tank areas. The farm sits well south of central Pattaya toward Sattahip, so a car or taxi is the realistic way to get there — public transport doesn’t run this stretch of coast. Combine it with the Thai Island and Sea Natural History Museum, a few hundred metres away on the same waterfront, or the Royal Thai Navy Sea Turtle Conservation Center a short drive north for more of Sattahip’s marine-conservation attractions.