🐠 Golden Angelfish (Centropyge aurantia)
A Velvet-Textured Burnt Orange Body With Tiger-Like Bars • A Rare, Naturally Cryptic Cave Dweller • A Prized Find for Dedicated Keepers
 
📋 The Golden Angelfish, also known as the Aurantia or Velvet Dwarf Angelfish, has a striking velvet-textured burnt orange to red body marked with thin, broken yellow tiger-like bars, and a distinctive blue ring around each eye.
It comes from reef crevices and rubble zones across the Indo-Pacific, naturally cryptic, spending much of its time tucked into caves and overhangs, a trait that makes it both a challenging collection and a prized find in the hobby. Every Golden Angelfish we ship is feeding well, and we favour captive-bred stock, which is notably hardier and better adapted to aquarium life than wild-caught specimens.
It's reef safe with caution, and may pick at and irritate fleshy LPS corals, soft corals, and Xenia, which varies between individual fish and your specific coral collection. It's territorial toward its own kind and other dwarf angelfish, so keep just one per tank, and it settles in most readily when introduced early to an already well-established aquarium, or alongside peaceful tankmates. It reaches up to 10cm, so plan on at least 210L.
 
💡 Highlights
🎨 Velvet Orange With Tiger Stripes: A distinctive, richly textured pattern
💎 Rare and Cryptic: Naturally hides in caves, making it a prized find
⚠️ Reef Safe With Caution: May irritate LPS corals, soft corals, and Xenia
✨ Captive-Bred Favoured: Notably hardier than wild-caught specimens
🐟 Territorial: One per tank; best introduced early or with peaceful tankmates