Rostratus cichlid

This astonishing huge Hap is one of the notable Lake Malawi Cichlids in the leisure activity because of its splendid tones and decently forceful nature.

Notwithstanding, Fossorochromis rostratus is famous for being delayed prodigies, particularly the male Fossos, frequently baffling specialists who accept they have been fruitless in keeping them. This implies it will take more consideration and persistence to trust that your fish will tone up, or you should think about another species.

So, on the off chance that you can furnish them with the right climate and diet, you’ll be compensated with a wonderful fish that is an extraordinary expansion to any huge Hap aquarium.

Fossorochromis rostratus, more usually known as Fossos and Malawi Sand Diver among specialists, is a kind of cichlid local to Lake Malawi in Africa.

Even though it was first noticed and recorded by Boulenger quite a while, seldom catches wind of many instances of fruitful bringing forth in the home aquarium until the beyond decade.

F. rostratusare is the main part of its class. In the wild, they broad disperse all through the whole lake however are all the more ordinarily tracked down close to rough shores and in regions with sandy substrates.

Even though they are typically found in huge gatherings of up to 50 people with just a single male appearance with predominant shading, they are not viewed as tutoring fish. In Lake Malawi, seeing a school of 20 fish for every square meter is omnipresent.

II. You would love the fish because…

Fossos have a developed stocky and extended body shape like other Haplochromine cichlids.

Their dorsal and caudal fins are very noticeable and are generally supplemented by a blue tint.

The butt-centric and pectoral fins are extremely pointed too. Account of the spines on their fins, making them look a lot greater and threatening.

By and large, predominant guys will take on metallic hues, going from blue to yellow.

The shading will escalate when they are prepared to produce or scavenge in the first part of the day.

You might see faint vertical bars or unpredictable oval imprints on the body.
Like the Big Mouth Hap, every individual contrasts in shading, and an example exist given area.

This is particularly obvious with the prevailing male.

Tragically, females, subdominant guys, and adolescents are considerably more dull-hued than prevailing guys, taking on a curbed cream-yellow tone.

Like prevailing guys, they have five unpredictable dull markings down the flank, yet the dim varieties “drain” onto the lighter cream body framing a checkerboard design

III. Is this fish species peaceful or hostile?

A peaceful African Cichlid, but can get feisty during spawning

IV. Species compatibility

Frontosa, Cyrtocara moorii, and Rift Lake Synodontis species.

V. How to feed this species?

This species can be fed quality flakes and spirulina flakes when they are juveniles. As the fish mature, their staple diet can change to quality cichlid pellets with spirulina flakes.