Andos99 said:
It's a Cyphotilapia Frontosa.....he's very shy! Day three and he still scurrys away like a little scaredy-cat whenever I approach the tank.
Frontosa are generally passive fish (when compared to aggressive active swimmers like mbuna) and some (but not all) can be skiddish and reclusive.
There are basically two stripe patterns (6 stripe and 7 stripe) and three primary groups of frontosa (cyphotilapia sp. north (6-stripe); cyphotiliapia frontosa (7-stripe), and cyphotilapia gibberosa(6-stripe)).
Each group may contain several variants (c. sp. north: burundi & kavala which originate from the north portion of the lake); c. frontosa: kigoma (which is a 7-stripe frontosa); c. gibberosa contains the blue sub-groups which originate in the southern portion of the lake like the various zaire blues, the zambians and the mpimpwe which are further broken down into additional variants like moba, ikola, kapampa; kitumba, bismark, samazi, etc.
The c. gibberosa blue variants tend to be the most expensive are usually acquired through importers or breeders.
Burundi, kigoma and sometimes mpimbwe are usually the variants most commonly found at the LFS and may all be sold as "frontosa" or "C. frontosa"
Frontosa's appreciate prestine water conditions and a quality and varied high protein diet. Their growth rate is fastest during their first year of life and usually achieve 4-6" during that time. After year 1 growth rate slows. They do well with alt. calvus and alt. compressiceps.
