
Above: In this picture a young male premium quality Benthochromis Tricoti Cichlid is swimming in one of our aquariums, when one of us snapped this picture.
Comments: These fish have alternating black and white horizontal stripes, and as they mature, they show blueish fins, as you can see in the picture, just above.
Origin: The ancestors of the Benthochromis Tricoti lived in deep water in Lake Tanganyika in East Africa. But now they live in a few aquariums all over the world.
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Temperature: Benthochromis Tricoti live best from about 75 to 80-degrees F. with 78 being perhaps ideal.
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Feeding: Premium Fish Food Pellets is the best food for these Cichlids to eat.
Feed them small pellets, when they're small, then gradually increase the size of the pellets, as they grow bigger.
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Water Conditions: These fish need water with a pH from about 7.5 to 8.5 and high hardness.
Most water in the U.S. has a lower pH and is not as hard, and so it's best to add so-called Tanganyika Salts to increase the pH and hardness.
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Live plants are beautiful and improve the water quality, but this fish will usually dig plants up, so most aquariums with Frontosas do not have live plants.
They like aquarium-safe rocks.
Aquarium Filter: Bio-Wheel Filters are highly recommended.
Most 80-gallon aquariums have room along the back for at least two Penguin 350B Filters, and this is sort of the minimum set up for 6-Stripe Frontosas.
Eventually a male will need to live in a 150-gallon aquarium with a large filtering system.
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The addition of Lava Rocks will keep nitrates in the ideal range.
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Life Span: Benthochromis Tricoti can live for several years.
Keep the water conditions excellent and feed them premium foods, and they'll most likely live for many years and may breed and produce the next generation of fish for your aquarium.
Gender: Males usually display bolder and brighter colors as they mature. Females usually have duller colors, and smaller bodies.
Breeding: Benthochromis Tricoti are mouthbrooders.
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Popularity: Benthochromis Tricoti is a rather rare, and so it has not gotten a chance to be a popular aquarium fish.All of our fish are Premium Quality Fish from the best suppliers in the world. Our fish have better health, more energy and brighter colors, as you can see in our pictures on this website.
We have 380-aquariums with lots-and-lots of popular aquarium fish plus lots-and-lots of rare fish!
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