Frontosa Cichlid Male Or Female
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Frontosa cichlid male or female. Can frontosa live with african cichlids. The male fish will have a bigger hump and longer fins. Frontosa fish vary in color where the most common sort of these are seen as previously described.
For sale a colony off 6 bar frontosa one big male there is 5 female 4 that are breeding beautiful fish a regretful sale 1264328599. Large male frontosa are slow moving. They seem to watch the females and when one is ready to spawn the male will swim slowly past her and give her a signal to go to the breeding cave.
Males generally grow larger then females and grow more quickly. If she is ready she will go directly to the breeding cave to start spawning. Even with those differences the best way to determine the sex of a specimen is to vent it.
This species of african cichlid is sexually monomorphic making it difficult to distinguish a female from a male frontosa. Frontosa cichlids are mouthbrooders. Sex differences although it s rather difficult to differ male from a female their size is helpful in this case male size is larger and the hump on its forehead is more.
They do not chase and court the females vigorously like lake malawi fishes. It is not easy to identify the frontosa as male or female until they reach the adult size 8 inches. When a group of frontosa is grown up together in a group of six or more it is almost guaranteed that the largest specimen is a male.
Male frontosa are generally bigger and have big humps when compared to female frontosa s. So still it s perfect to keep frontosa separately from other fishes in a small school one male and three females or in a big school 8 12 fish. The frontosa is among the biggest african cichlids as males can reach up to 15 inches in size.
Therefore providing them with the right aquarium size substrate and decorations is important. These carnivorous fish are best kept either in isolation or with the opposite sex although it is better to first let it mature before introducing it into an aquarium with a female frontosa in it. A male must fight aggressively to become king of the harem.
However males typically have bigger humps and their overall size is usually larger than females. Females are smaller averaging between 8 10 inches. Frontosa also are known as the humphead cichlid as both sexes have a hump on the head which can only be seen in adult fish.
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