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Dimidiochromis strigatus is found everywhere in Lake Malawi, mainly above the sandbottom (sometimes also with vegetation) in shallow water. The males of these species can grow to about 25 cm in the lake, females stay smaller, about 18 cm. In the aquarium however they can grow taller because of a good feeding. Dimidiochromis strigatus is a real predator. Young fish belong to his favourite meal. 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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