🐠 Maculosus Angelfish (Pomacanthus maculosus)
A Deep Blue Body With a Bold Golden-Yellow Band • A Prized Red Sea Specialist • A Bold, Confident Premium Centrepiece
 
📋 The Maculosus Angelfish, also known as the Yellowbar or Map Angelfish, is a striking large angelfish, deep blue overall with a bold golden-yellow band across the midsection, fine blue spotting on the face, and elegantly pointed dorsal and anal fins that form trailing filaments. Juveniles look completely different, displaying vivid electric-blue bodies with white vertical bars.
It comes from the Red Sea, Arabian Gulf, and northwestern Indian Ocean, uncommon in the wider trade and prized as a premium centrepiece, inhabiting rocky rubble areas and coral-rich lagoons where it grazes on sponges, algae, and zooplankton. Every Maculosus Angelfish we ship is feeding well.
It's not reef safe, and will nip at stony and soft corals, clam mantles, and sessile invertebrates, making it best suited to a spacious fish-only or FOWLR aquarium. It's a bold, confident species once established, with adults often becoming the dominant presence in a tank and even learning to recognise their keeper, actively begging for food. It's territorial, particularly toward other large angelfish, so it should generally be the only angelfish present. A useful identification note: it's frequently confused with the closely related Asfur Angelfish, but the Maculosus has a whitish tail compared with the Asfur's deep yellow tail. It reaches up to 45cm, so plan on at least 680L.
 
💡 Highlights
🎨 Deep Blue With Golden Yellow Band: A spectacular large angelfish
💎 Red Sea Specialist: Uncommon in the wider trade, prized as a centrepiece
🐟 Bold Once Established: Can learn to recognise its keeper and beg for food
⚠️ Not Reef Safe: Will nip at corals, clam mantles, and sessile invertebrates
👶 Dramatic Juvenile-to-Adult Transformation: Electric blue with white bars to golden-banded adult