🐠 Flame Angelfish (Centropyge loricula)
A Brilliant Fiery Red-Orange Body With Bold Black Bars • Electric-Blue Fin Trim • One of the Most Iconic Dwarf Angels
 
📋 The Flame Angelfish is one of the most instantly recognisable dwarf angelfish in the hobby, with a brilliant fiery red-orange body, bold vertical black bars, and electric-blue trim along the dorsal and anal fins. Colouration varies by collection locality: Marshall Islands specimens tend toward deeper red with thicker black bars, while Christmas Island fish show a lighter orange with thinner striping.
It comes from coral-rich reef slopes and rubble zones across the Central Pacific, including the Hawaiian Islands, Marshall Islands, and the Great Barrier Reef, grazing on algae and small invertebrates among rock and coral outcrops. Every Flame Angelfish we ship is feeding well.
It's reef safe with caution: most specimens leave stony corals largely alone, but their natural grazing on coral mucus and slime layers can occasionally cross into more destructive nipping, particularly with LPS corals, zoanthids, and clam mantles. It's also territorial, so keep just one per tank unless introducing multiple dwarf angelfish simultaneously to a large aquarium, and it's sensitive to copper-based medications. We favour captive-bred stock when available, which is more disease-resistant and better adapted to captive diets than wild-collected fish. It reaches up to 15cm, so plan on at least 265L.
 
💡 Highlights
🎨 Iconic Fiery Red-Orange Colouration: Variation by collection locality
⚠️ Reef Safe With Caution: Coral mucus grazing can occasionally cross into nipping
✨ Captive-Bred Stock Favoured: More hardy and disease-resistant when available
🐟 Territorial: One per tank; introduce alongside other angelfish simultaneously
🩺 Copper-Sensitive: Avoid copper-based medications with this species