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Flagfin Angelfish (Apolemichthys trimaculatus)
Flagfin Angelfish
Please Note: Due to variations within species, your item may not look identical to the image provided. Approximate size range may also vary between individual specimen.
Please Note: Due to variations within species, your item may not look identical to the image provided. Approximate size range may also vary between individual specimen.
Flagfin Angelfish (Apolemichthys trimaculatus)
Additional locales and sizes may be available!
Additional locales and sizes may be available!

Quick Stats

Care Level Difficult
Temperament Semi-aggressive
Color Form Black, Blue, Yellow
Diet Omnivore
Reef Compatible No
Water Conditions sg 1.020-1.025, 72-78° F, dKH 8-12, pH 8.1-8.4
Max. Size 10"
Family Pomacanthidae
Minimum Tank Size 125 gallons
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Care Level Difficult
Temperament Semi-aggressive
Color Form Black, Blue, Yellow
Diet Omnivore
Reef Compatible No
Water Conditions sg 1.020-1.025, 72-78° F, dKH 8-12, pH 8.1-8.4
Max. Size 10"
Family Pomacanthidae
Minimum Tank Size 125 gallons
Compatibility View Chart
What do these Quick Stats mean? Click here for more information

Overview

The Flagfin Angelfish, also referred to as the Threespot Angelfish, is a brilliant yellow with blue lips, a dark blue-black dorsal spot where the head joins the body, and a light tan spot behind the eye.

Provide plenty of other hiding places in a 125 gallon tank or larger as the Flagfin Angelfish is quite shy early on and should be the only angel in the tank. Not a good reef dweller, the Flagfin Angelfish is prone to nip at sessile invertebrates (soft and stony corals) and clam mantles.

This is a difficult angelfish to keep due to its dietary requirement of sponges and its poor ability to adapt to other foods. Expert aquarists may have success by providing a mixed fare of sponge-containing frozen angelfish rations, vitamin-enriched brine shrimp, mysis shrimp, a plethora of plant material, and live rock for grazing and hiding.

Approximate Purchase Size: Small: 2" to 2-3/4"; Small/Medium: 2-3/4" to 3-1/4"; Medium: 3-1/4" to 4"; Medium/Large: 4" to 5"; Large: 5" to 7"; XLarge: 7" and larger; Juvenile: Under 2"

Customer Testimonials

Greg Syracuse , NY
My Flagfin has been doing well over the past 3 weeks since it's arrival. It began eating within hours. It eats everything! Frozen foods, pellets, flakes and algae sheets. Amazing fish! Beautiful specimen with awesome blue lips. I would recommend this fish to anyone with a large enough aquarium that has been up and running for about a year. Plenty of live rock and macro algae are some of the keys to success with this beauty.
Michael Valdes Miami , FL
This is a very beautiful fish and also very hardy. Mine began eating in hours.
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