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Fast Facts Common Name: Bicolor Angelfish Other Common Names: Blue-and-Gold, Pacific Rock Beauty Angelfish Scientific Name: Centropyge bicolor Location: Indo-Pacific Diet (In the wild): Coral polyps, worms, clams' mantle, other invertebrates Care Level: Average Reef Compatibility Level: Low

General Description:

Bicolor Angelfish as its name implies, is indeed bicolor, meaning it has two colors that are distincitve on the fish's body. The colors include the brillant yellow in front and about half its body size down would be a totally separate color, blue. And to finish off this truly beautiful color, its tail is also topped with yellow.

Bicolor Angelfish are one of the best addition to any fish only aquarium. They are non-aggressive towards most of its other companions and provides a brillant and striking display for anyone viewing the tank.

Though it has been observed that some Bicolor Angels do not do well with another Bicolor Angel together in the same tank as they do fight for territories like they will in the wild, it is still possible to put in more than 1 Bicolor Angelfish in a tank that is large enough for each of them to claim their own territories.

Husbandry:

In the wild, these fishes feed mainly on polyps of other soft or hard corals around the reef, hence they require diet that are similar in contents and definitely no need for you to really get a live coral for them. Most LFS will have the proper diet for coral eating fishes such as pellets. Pellets are good substitution for most of these fishes food as they are specially formulated to mimic their diet in the wild and thus resulting in optimal health for your fishes.

Good water quality is also important for this species and as it is with any other marine animals. Fishes does naturally have a hight torlerance 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 set-up mistakes or post set-up 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 set-up of the animals that you intend to keep.

Breeding:

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