🐠 Cherub Angelfish (Centropyge argi)
A Deep Sapphire-Blue Body With a Golden-Orange Face • One of the Smallest Angelfish Available • A Compact, Colourful Reef Favourite
 
📋 The Cherub Angelfish, also known as the Cherubfish or Atlantic Pygmy Angelfish, is a small but vividly coloured dwarf angelfish with a deep sapphire-blue body, a golden-orange face and chest, and delicate light-blue fin margins.
It comes from the Western Atlantic, from Bermuda and Florida through the Caribbean to French Guiana, one of the smallest angelfish available, making it a good option for keepers with limited space who still want to house an angelfish. Every Cherub Angelfish we ship is feeding well.
It's reef safe with caution: many specimens leave corals alone, but individuals can nip at LPS corals and clam mantles, particularly if underfed. It's worth knowing that this species often becomes secretive for the first several days to a couple of weeks after introduction, darting in and out of live rock; this is completely normal settling-in behaviour rather than a sign of a problem, and it typically becomes bold and constantly visible once acclimated. Like other dwarf angelfish, it's sensitive to copper-based medications, so this should be avoided or used with real caution if treatment is ever needed. Keep just one male per tank, since males are territorial toward one another. It reaches up to 7.6cm, so plan on at least 210L.
 
💡 Highlights
🎨 Sapphire Blue and Golden Face: Striking, compact colouration
📏 Compact Size: One of the smallest angelfish, suited to more modest tanks
⚠️ Reef Safe With Caution: May nip LPS corals and clam mantles if underfed
🙈 Normal Initial Shyness: Often hides for the first days to weeks, which is expected, not a problem
🩺 Copper-Sensitive: Avoid copper-based medications with this species