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Protomelas krampus (formerly known as Hemitaeniochromis sp."paedophage") can be found in the northwestern part of the lake, in Lukoma Bay on the tanzanian coast, in the neighbourhood of Mara Point on the coast of Mozambique and around the islands Chizumulu and Likoma but also around the peninsula Nankhumba in the southern part of the lake, like for example Otter Point en Mazinzi Reef. In the lake the males of these species can grow to about 20 cm, females stay smaller, they grow to about 16 cm. Protomelas krampus is a specialised predator, it likes eating eggs and young fish from the bigger, mouthbreeding cichlids. It is able to get these eggs and young fish by attacking a breeding female from above and hitting the upper side of her throat, so that she opens her mouth and loses her breed. 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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