Cyanide, poor shippers and disease are the primary reasons for their poor record in captivity, Wit also makes a good point about a deeper water fish so maybe the methods used to capture them from deeper water aren't the best. I know the one's I've seen at the LFS are usually in terrible condition.
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The entire sp. of Centropyge is haremic so I don't see that as being an issue IMO and it would be very difficult to get a harem since most of the one's we get in the hobby are already adults, it certainly would be interesting to get 7-10 juveniles but just about impossible to survive the shipping process.