Fast Facts
Common Name: Blue Face Angelfish
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Scientific Name: Euxiphipops xanthometapon
Location: Indo-Pacific
Diet (In the wild): Coral polyps, clam's mantle, small invertebrates
Care Level: High
Reef Compatibility Level: Low
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General Description:Blue Face Angelfish will be a very interesting addition to any fish only aquarium. Reason being because of its very distinctively bright and intense colors, its face consist of its yellow eye mask and a lower face mask that is bright blue. Together with this absolutely vibrant color, its body consist of blue dots on a yellow-white background with a nicely colored yellow tail.
As with most other angelfishes, Blue Face Angelfish will not be compatible in a reef type tank. They are bigger and therefore will do even more damage to a reef tank if they were to be introduced. Their natural diet consist of invertebrates, coral polyps, and sponges as well. Though this, together with most fishes is to be replaced with specially formulated pellets.
Blue Face Angelfish can sometimes be aggressive towards their own kind, and therefore because of this reason it is always recommended that only one per tank is best. Once adjusted to their tank conditions, you will often see these fishes start picking on your live rocks and over time, they will even greet you when you are in front of the tank.
Husbandry:As mentioned, their diet consist of corals and is therefore not recommended in a reef tank unless you want to destroy your reef tank bit by bit. Their diet can range from a variety of pellets to frozen food. Though live food is normally not recommended because they normally bring together with them parasites and other dieseases, you can still rear your own brine shrimp and feed them.
Good water quality is also important for this species and as it is with any other marine animals. Fishes does naturally have a high tolerance for nitrate level but that does not mean they can live with it. Making sure that all ammonia, nitrate, and nitrite levels to be at their lowest is important for any fish in the tank, though sometimes with corals, there will be a need when you cannot reduce nitrate level to 0. Another important parameter to focus on will be your pH, pH levels should be kept between 8.1-8.4 and temperatures between 26°C-28°C.
The tank should have a rock scape that provdies sufficient hiding areas and swim through areas for these fishes to move around in just like they would naturally. In any situation the environment of your fish is in must never induce any form of stress to any inhabitants in your tank because of setup mistakes or post setup problems. Care should always be taken when building a tank, and make sure you know what you are going to put in the tank beforehand so that you can at least research on the basic requirements for the tank setup of the animals that you intend to keep.
Breeding:There is still no particular breeding information about this animal, if you have submit yours to us
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