🐠 Yellow Pygmy Angelfish (Centropyge heraldi)
A Clean, Near-Solid Bright Yellow Body • A Hardier Alternative to the True Lemonpeel Angelfish • Adapts Readily to Prepared Foods
 
📋 The Yellow Pygmy Angelfish, also known as Herald's Angelfish or the False Lemonpeel Angelfish, has a clean, near-solid bright yellow body, with some specimens showing a subtle dusky patch behind the eye. It's often confused with the true Lemonpeel Angelfish, which it closely resembles, but is reliably distinguished by lacking that species' electric-blue eye ring and blue fin edging. The species is named after Earl Stannard Herald, an American ichthyologist.
It comes from a wide range across the Pacific Ocean, from Taiwan and southern Japan to the Tuamotu Archipelago and the Great Barrier Reef, typically inhabiting steep outer reef slopes at depths of 5-90 metres, living in pairs or small harems. Every Yellow Pygmy Angelfish we ship is feeding well.
It's one of the hardier, more accessible dwarf angelfish, and unlike the true Lemonpeel, it's less dependent on algae in its diet, adapting readily to a wide range of prepared foods. It's reef safe with caution, and may nip at large-polyped stony corals, soft corals, and clam mantles, particularly if underfed. It's territorial toward other dwarf angelfish and should be the only Centropyge species present. It reaches up to 12cm, so plan on at least 210L.
 
💡 Highlights
🎨 Solid Bright Yellow Body: A clean, vibrant colour
🔍 The "False Lemonpeel": Distinguished from the true Lemonpeel by lacking blue eye and fin markings
💪 Less Algae-Dependent: Adapts more readily to prepared foods than the Lemonpeel Angelfish
⚠️ Reef Safe With Caution: Consistent feeding reduces nipping risk
🐟 Territorial: Should be the only Centropyge species present