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Caprichromis orthognatus is found everywhere in Lake Malawi in sandy environments but also in intermediate zones from rocks to sand. In the lake the males of these species can grow to about 20 cm, females stay smaller. In the aquarium however they can grow to about 25 cm. Caprichromis orthognatus 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 hitting a breeding female under 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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