🐠 Midnight Angelfish (Centropyge nox)
A Solid, Uniform Black Body With a Subtle Blue Sheen • One of the More Peaceful Centropyge Species • A Striking, Understated Showpiece
 
📋 The Midnight Angelfish, also known as the Black Nox or Black Pygmy Angelfish, has a striking, understated appearance: a solid, uniform black body that can show a subtle blue sheen under certain lighting, making it stand out against brighter reef inhabitants.
It comes from a wide range across the Western Pacific, from the Ryukyu Islands to Indonesia, the Solomon Islands, and the Great Barrier Reef, regarded as one of the more peaceful members of the Centropyge genus. Every Midnight Angelfish we ship is feeding well.
It's reef safe with caution, and benefits from a consistent, varied diet, since an underfed specimen is more likely to nip at soft coral polyps, clam mantles, and zoanthids. It's naturally quite shy on introduction and can be easily bullied, so plenty of hiding places help it settle in. It's territorial toward its own kind and other similarly shaped dwarf angelfish, so keep just one per tank unless introducing multiple angelfish simultaneously to a large system. It reaches up to 12cm, so plan on at least 210L.
 
💡 Highlights
🎨 Solid Deep Black Body: A striking, understated dwarf angelfish
😌 One of the More Peaceful Centropyge: Generally coexists well with other peaceful fish
⚠️ Reef Safe With Caution: Consistent feeding keeps it reef-friendly
🙈 Shy Initially: Plenty of hiding places help it settle in
🐟 Territorial: One per tank unless introducing multiple angelfish together