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Hemitaeniochromis sp."urotaenia tanzania" is mainly living above the sandbottom near the intermediate zones from rocks to sand on depths between 7 and 15 meters. This is a very rare species which can be found just occasionally in the utmost north of the lake, mainly along the northeastern coast from Msisi and than probably up to the Songwe River in the utmost northwestern part of the lake. This example was found near Itungi. In the lake the males of these species can probably grow to about 16 cm, females stay smaller, they grow to about 13 cm. Hemitaeniochromis sp."urotaenia tanzania" is a predator which likes eating small cichlids. 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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