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Hemitaeniochromis brachyrhynchus (formerly known as Hemitaeniochromis sp."spilopterus blue") can be found everywhere in Lake Malawi. They are mainly living there in caves in the deeper regions in rocky environments and in the intermediate zones from rocks to sand. These examples were caught in the neighbourhood of Chitande Island. In the lake the males of these species can grow to about 18 cm, females stay smaller, they grow to about 14 cm. Hemitaeniochromis brachyrhynchus is a predator which likes eating eggs and very small fish. You can best keep this species with multiple females and other big species in a large tank. We are dealing here with a species which likes eating fish, so we'll regularly have to offer him such kind of food like living small fish, mysis, krill, artemia, shrimpmix and they eat a lot of young fish when we keep them with mbuna. 
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