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Trematocranus placodon is mainly living in shallow water, in sandy environments with a lot of vegetation and they can be found all around Lake Malawi. This young colourless male example was found in Lake Malombe. This lake is situated southern of Lake Malawi and is directly connected with it through the Shire River. The cichlid species which are found in Lake Malombe seems to stay smaller then in Lake Malawi and they seem to become sexually active earlier, probably this is because they live under pressure due to the overfishing in that lake. In the lake the males of these species can grow to 23 cm, in the aquarium however they can grow a little taller because of a good feeding. The males can then grow to about 25 cm, females grow to about 20 cm. Trematocranus placodon is a species which - in the lake - is searching the sand for food. Mainly it is feeding itself with small snails. You can best keep this species with multiple females and other big species in a large tank with a lot of swimming space. We are dealing here with a species which likes eating snails, so we'll regularly have to offer him such kind of food like living small snails, mysis, krill,artemia, shrimpmix etc. 
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