🐠 Multicolor Angelfish (Centropyge multicolor)
A Vivid Peach-Orange Body With a Striking Silvery-White Band • A Deep-Water Rarity • Best Suited to Subdued Lighting
 
📋 The Multicolor Angelfish, also known as the Pastel Pygmy or Pearlback Angelfish, has a vivid combination of colours: a pale peach-to-orange body, a blue patch dotted with black speckles just behind the eyes, blue-black dorsal and anal fins, a yellow tail, and a striking silvery-white band running from mid-body toward the caudal fin.
It comes from deep outer reef slopes across the Pacific, including the Marshall Islands, rare in the trade, living cryptically in narrow rocky passageways at depths typically between 20 and 90 metres, occasionally as deep as 115 metres. Every Multicolor Angelfish we ship is feeding well.
Given its deep-water origin, it does best under subdued, low lighting with plenty of dark overhangs and narrow passageways to feel secure. It's reef safe with caution, and may nip at soft and stony corals, sessile invertebrates, and clam mantles, so a spacious, well-fed setup helps reduce this risk. It's sensitive to copper-based medications, and can be assertive toward other pygmy angelfish, anthias, butterflyfish, and fairy wrasses, so thoughtful tankmate selection matters. This species has been successfully captive-bred, offering a hardier alternative to wild-caught stock. It reaches up to 9cm, so plan on at least 280L.
 
💡 Highlights
🎨 Vivid Peach-Orange With a Silvery Band: A striking, unusual colour combination
💎 A Deep-Water Rarity: Collected from deep, cryptic reef habitats
🌗 Prefers Subdued Lighting: Reflects its natural deep-reef origin
⚠️ Reef Safe With Caution: May nip at corals, invertebrates, and clam mantles
🩺 Copper-Sensitive: Avoid copper-based medications with this species