Best places to dive with Anemonefish

Resident in huge numbers at Clown Valley, which reportedly holds the densest sea-anemone concentration of any dive site; mainly Clark's and tomato anemonefish.

Standard on the shallow fringing reef at Pelong Rocks and at Abana Reef, which are the sites used for Open Water divers and snorkellers rather than the deeper hulls.

Anemonefish are on nearly every Con Dao reef dive and are one of the more dependable subjects here. Species-level identification in local reporting is not reliable.

Anemonefish (clownfish) occupy anemone fields on the shallow reefs, notably at Hin Luk Bat.

Found year-round in the anemone patches at Two Tone Garden, Koh Koun and Koh Prins' Anemone Garden.

Anemones with resident clownfish are scattered across the shallow sites and are one of the few reliably photogenic subjects on a training dive.

Anemone colonies are a fixture on the Balicasag shallows and on Panglao's slopes; the Balicasag snorkelling zone is marketed on its clownfish. Year-round, no seasonality.

Anemonefish are resident on shallow reefs and are commonly encountered on training dives. Heat damage affected some anemone patches in 2024, so distribution varies between sites.

Anemone patches on Redang's shallow reefs hold resident false clown anemonefish, including the Pasir Panjang house reefs. Anemones bleach alongside coral in heat events, so patches lost in 2024 have not all recovered.

Anemonefish are a realistic year-round reef sighting where host anemones persist; no monthly peak is documented.

Resident in anemones across the shallow reefs, including the HQ Channel and Ao Mai Ngam.

Reliable on the anemone-covered shallow wrecks.