Here's my new addition....Just got him today and he's beautiful. (Do anyone have any tips on how to bring out the most blue, and what species is this?)
This pic is right out of the bag...
This pic is right out of the bag...
My new friend....
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Cyphotialipa Frontosa Its and African Cichlid from lake Tang., I have 6 of them, wonderfull fish. Make sure you feed it a vegie diet. I have alot of info posted on them here: Front Info
Sorry, I didn't specify. I know it was a front, but I didn't know if it was a certain type. What should I feed him to bring out his color?
It is one of the certain types of frontosa but at a smll size like yours it is hard to tell. It can even be hard to tell what type you have when they are bigger as well. One of the most common types of fronts is the burundi.
Some types get more blue than others, so it is hard to say how to get the most blue, other than feed it a good varied diet and do regular water changes.
What I fed my fronts when I had them was O.S.I cichlid pellets, New Life Spectrum cichlid formula, and gave frozen krill 4 times a week and I got pretty good results with mine. If yours is to small to eat krill then I would try mysis shrimp.
Ash, why do you say to make sure and feed it a veggie diet. Fronts arent vegitarians or fish that feed heavily on vegitable matter. In the wild you wouldn't think so but fronts are actually preditors. One thing that fronts eat the most in the wild are cyprichromis. I read somewhere that at night when the cyprichromis are sleeping the fronts will go around and make easy work of them. They feed at night cause during the day there is no way a front could catch a cyprichromis. Esspecially in open water.
Some types get more blue than others, so it is hard to say how to get the most blue, other than feed it a good varied diet and do regular water changes.
What I fed my fronts when I had them was O.S.I cichlid pellets, New Life Spectrum cichlid formula, and gave frozen krill 4 times a week and I got pretty good results with mine. If yours is to small to eat krill then I would try mysis shrimp.
Ash, why do you say to make sure and feed it a veggie diet. Fronts arent vegitarians or fish that feed heavily on vegitable matter. In the wild you wouldn't think so but fronts are actually preditors. One thing that fronts eat the most in the wild are cyprichromis. I read somewhere that at night when the cyprichromis are sleeping the fronts will go around and make easy work of them. They feed at night cause during the day there is no way a front could catch a cyprichromis. Esspecially in open water.
Thats my bad I know they eat other things but when I first got mined and posted on here thats what I was told so thats what I ve been doing well sorta I mix up my spirulina flakes with new life pellets. When I first posted that I had them on here I was told to feed them that. Then I read different things on different sites as to what to feed them it was 50-50 between vegie and non vegie so I fig. Id just feed them both and mix it up. Another thing I was told is that they bloat if you keep them on pellets to long so obviously I may be following the wrong advice ?? 
Its one of those you never know whats right when you hear on the internet things 
Its one of those you never know whats right when you hear on the internet things Ok, I see, I was just curious. I tought at one point too they needed a veggie diet until I came across this article in one of the old 1992 TFH where I learned they were preditors.
I have never heard of them becomeing bloated by being on pellats too long. That is all I ever feed my fronts and never came across any ill effects in doing so.
Well thanks for clearing that up for me.
I have never heard of them becomeing bloated by being on pellats too long. That is all I ever feed my fronts and never came across any ill effects in doing so.
Well thanks for clearing that up for me.