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Hemitaeniochromis sp."spilopterus yellow" can be found everywhere in Lake Malawi, mainly in the rocky parts of the intermediate zones from rocks to sand. Usually they are living alone but sometimes you can find them also in a small group of maximum three examples. These examples were caught in the neighbourhood of Mdoka. In the lake the males of these species can grow to about 22 cm, females stay smaller, they grow to about 17 cm. Hemitaeniochromis sp."spilopterus yellow" is a predator which probably likes eating eggs and very small fish. 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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