🐠 Blueface Angelfish (Pomacanthus xanthometopon)
A Golden Body With an Ornate Blue-and-Black Facial Pattern • A Dramatic Juvenile-to-Adult Transformation • A Captivating Centrepiece
 
📋 The Blueface Angelfish, also known as the Yellowface Angelfish, is a captivating large marine angelfish. Adults display a golden-yellow body with an ornate blue face pattern accented in black, while juveniles look completely different, a deep blue body marked with electric blue and white vertical stripes, gradually transforming as they mature.
It comes from lagoons, channels, and outer reef slopes across the Indo-Pacific, relying heavily on reef structure, using caves and overhangs as both shelter and hiding spots from threats. Every Blueface Angelfish we ship is alert and feeding well before it leaves us.
It's not reliably reef safe and will nip at soft and stony corals as well as clam mantles, making it best suited to a spacious fish-only or FOWLR aquarium. Its natural diet in the wild consists largely of sponges and tunicates, so we keep a dedicated sponge-based angelfish preparation central to its diet. For keepers with a large, well-established fish-only tank, this is a rewarding long-term centrepiece, and some specimens even become interactive over time, recognising their keeper. It reaches up to 38cm, so plan on at least 680L.
 
💡 Highlights
🎨 Striking Blue Facial Pattern: Ornate blue-and-black face against a golden body
👶 Dramatic Juvenile-to-Adult Change: Deep blue striped juveniles transform completely
⚠️ Not Reliably Reef Safe: Will nip at corals and clam mantles
🍽️ Ships Feeding Well: Alert and confirmed eating before it leaves us
🧠 Can Become Interactive: Some specimens grow tame enough to recognise their keeper