Flame Angelfish

In the tropics of the Pacific Ocean, the Flaming Angelfish (Centropyge loricula) is a marine angelfish belonging to the Pomacanthidae family. Other common names for angelfish are Japanese pygmy angelfish, flame angel, and fiery angelfish. The flaming angelfish has four or five bars on the sides, the back of the dorsal fin, and the anal fin, with alternating short purple-blue and black bands. It also has an elongated vertical black mark. Marquesas specimens are devoid of vertical black bars. In general, males are bigger and have slightly more color than females. The flame angelfish has a lifespan of 5-7 years or longer.

The flaming angelfish eat a variety of algae and crustaceans in the wild. Reef aquarium fish occasionally enjoy very long lives, however, when they get elderly, the majority of these fish frequently pass away mysteriously. This is understandable because many members of the Centropyge family spend their juvenile years primarily eating plankton before switching to their adult diet. Occasionally, all it takes is for a person who is undernourished to "test" a food source. Given this, angelfish are typically placed in an aquarium that has already been constructed and fed frozen Mysis shrimp or meaty crustaceans like shrimp and clams.